Effective Strategies for Powerful Businesses and Institutions
We aim to partner with local businesses, serving as an extension of your team and providing specialized expertise to meet your retirement and 401(k) goals. Recognizing that every business is unique, we create custom solutions that offer tangible benefits. Our services include retirement plan consulting for defined contribution plans and investment consulting for defined benefit plans. With our personalized approach and strategic advice, we build effective strategies to support not only your business's financial success, but your employees too.
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The Retirement Plan & Institutional Advisory Council is a group of financial advisors who establish and uphold a standard of care for serving institutional clients with their retirement, endowment and foundation plans. Raymond James has a dedicated group of advisors nationwide who have made investment consulting with clients their primary focus, which accounts for less than 1% of all Raymond James advisors. We continually develop and adhere to best practices for the qualified plan, endowment and foundation industry that our advisors and their clients can rely on.
NAPA Top DC Advisor Teams 2024: The list is created and conducted by the National Association of Plan Advisors (NAPA), an affiliate organization of the American Retirement Association, a non-profit association. Established in 2017, nominees had to be individual advisor team/offices with a defined contribution book of business. Winners are ranked based upon self-reported defined contribution Assets Under Advisement (AUA) as of 12/31/23. To be considered, nominees had to submit responses to an application form, including information about their practices, notably their defined contribution (DC) assets under advisement (minimum of 100million AUA). In 2023, there were approximately 452 submissions, and 452 were named to the list released on 3/18/2024. This ranking is not indicative of an advisor's future performance, is not an endorsement, and may not be representative of an individual client's experience. This ranking is not based in any way on the individual's abilities in regards to providing investment advice or management. Neither Raymond James nor any of its financial advisors pay a fee in exchange for this ranking. Raymond James is not affiliated with NAPA or the American Retirement Association. Please see https://www.napa-net.org/napa-top-dc-advisor-teams-2024 for more info.
Joe Peterson received the NAPA ACES Award: Top 100 Retirement Plan Advisors under 40 (2025). The list is created and conducted by the National Association of Plan Advisors (NAPA), an affiliate organization of the American Retirement Association, a non-profit association. Nominations from the list were provided by NAPA Broker-Dealer/RIA Firm Partners. Nominees had to be retirement plan advisors with their own book of business and had to be less than 40 years of age. Nominees are required to submit responses to an application comprised of a series of quantitative and qualitative questions about their experience, size and composition of their practice, awards and recognitions, and industry contributions, which were then reviewed by a panel of senior advisor industry experts, who, based on those criteria, and following a broker-check review, selected the top young advisors. Time period upon which the rating is based is from calendar year 2024 and was released on 11/15/2024. For the 2025 award there were over 500 nominations. From that, 100 were named to NAPA’s ACES: Top 100 Retirement Plan Advisors under 40. This ranking is not indicative of an advisor's future performance, is not an endorsement, and may not be representative of an individual client's experience. Neither Raymond James nor any of its financial advisors pay a fee in exchange for this award/rating. Raymond James is not affiliated with National Association of Plan Advisors (NAPA).
Raymond James’ Retirement Plan & Institutional Advisory Council membership is based on assets under management, number of qualified group retirement plans, designations obtained, and compliance record. Membership is not an endorsement, is not representative of any one client’s experience, and is not indicative of future performance. No fee is paid in exchange for this membership. Requalification is not required.