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Lpl Financial Holdings Inc   (LPLA)
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Price: $269.7500 $1.31 0.488%
Day's High: $271.99 Week Perf: 1.69 %
Day's Low: $ 266.61 30 Day Perf: 4.77 %
Volume (M): 507 52 Wk High: $ 271.99
Volume (M$): $ 136,682 52 Wk Avg: $225.12
Open: $267.33 52 Wk Low: $179.00



 Market Capitalization (Millions $) 21,010
 Shares Outstanding (Millions) 78
 Employees 3,410
 Revenues (TTM) (Millions $) 10,053
 Net Income (TTM) (Millions $) 1,066
 Cash Flow (TTM) (Millions $) -556
 Capital Exp. (TTM) (Millions $) 403

Lpl Financial Holdings Inc

We are a leader in the retail financial advice market, the nations largest independent broker-dealer (based on total revenues, Financial Planning magazine June 1996-2015), a top custodian for registered investment advisors ("RIAs"), and a leading independent consultant to retirement plans. We provide an integrated platform of brokerage and investment advisory services to more than 14,000 independent financial advisors (our "advisors"), including financial advisors at more than 700 financial institutions across the country, enabling them to provide their retail investors ("clients") with objective financial advice through a lower conflict model. We also support over 4,200 financial advisors who are affiliated and licensed with insurance companies that use our customized clearing services, advisory platforms, and technology solutions.

Through our advisors, we are one of the largest distributors of financial products and services in the United States, and are one of the top five firms based on the number of advisors in the United States.


We believe there is a fundamental need for independent financial advice in America. We believe investors achieve better outcomes when working with a financial advisor. We strive to make it easy for financial advisors to do what is best for their clients, while protecting advisors and investors and promoting independence and choice through access to a wide range of diligently evaluated non-proprietary products. This is the sole focus of our business.


Our mission is to enable our advisors to focus on what they do best—create the personal, long-term relationships that are the foundation for turning life’s aspirations into financial realities. Our differentiator is the combination of our capabilities across research, technology, risk management, and practice management, which together exceed any individual competitor’s offering. All of these are delivered in an environment unencumbered by conflicts from product manufacturing, underwriting, or market-making.
We began operations through LPL Financial LLC ("LPL Financial"), our broker-dealer subsidiary, in 1989. LPL Financial Holdings Inc., which is the parent company of our collective businesses, was incorporated in Delaware in 2005. LPL Financial is a clearing broker-dealer and an investment advisor that primarily transacts business as an agent for our advisors on behalf of their clients by providing access to a broad array of financial products and services. Through our subsidiary The Private Trust Company, N.A. ("PTC"), we offer trust administration, investment management oversight and Individual Retirement Account ("IRA") custodial services for estates and families. Our subsidiary, Independent Advisers Group Corporation (“IAG”), offers an investment advisory solution to insurance companies to support their financial advisors who are licensed with them. Our subsidiary, LPL Insurance Associates, Inc., ("LPLIA"), operates as a brokerage general agency that offers life, long-term care, and disability insurance sales and services.

Our Advisor Relationships
Our business is dedicated exclusively to our advisors; we are not a market-maker nor do we offer investment banking or underwriting services. We offer no proprietary products of our own. Because we do not offer proprietary products, we enable the independent financial advisors, banks, and credit unions that we support to offer their clients lower-conflict advice.


We work alongside advisors to navigate complex market and regulatory environments and strive to empower them to create the best outcomes for investors. In addition, we make meaningful investments in technology and services to support the growth, productivity, and efficiency of advisors across a broad spectrum of business models as their practices evolve. LPL advisors are part of a community of diverse, entrepreneurial financial services professionals from whom they can learn and grow.
We believe we offer a compelling economic value proposition to independent advisors, which is a key factor in our ability to attract and retain advisors and their practices. The independent channels pay advisors a greater share of brokerage commissions and advisory fees than the captive channels — generally 80-90% compared to 30-50%. Through our scale and operating efficiencies, we are able to offer our advisors what we believe to be the highest average payout ratios among the five largest U.S. broker-dealers, ranked by number of advisors.


Furthermore, we believe that our technology and service platforms enable our advisors to operate their practices with a greater focus on serving investors while generating revenue opportunities and at a lower cost than other independent advisors. As a result, we believe that our advisors who own practices earn more pre-tax profit than practice owners affiliated with other independent brokerage firms. Finally, as business owners, our independent financial advisors, unlike captive advisors, also have the opportunity to build equity in their own businesses.


Our advisors build long-term relationships with their clients in communities across the U.S. by guiding them through the complexities of investment decisions, retirement solutions, financial planning, and wealth-management. Our advisors support approximately 4.6 million client accounts. Our services are designed to support the evolution of our advisors’ businesses over time and to adapt as our advisors needs change.


Our advisors average over 15 years of industry experience, which allows us to focus on supporting and enhancing our advisors’ businesses without needing to provide basic training or subsidizing advisors who are new to the industry. Our flexible business platform allows our advisors to choose the most appropriate business model to support their clients, whether they conduct brokerage business, offer brokerage and fee-based services on our corporate RIA platforms, or provide fee-based services through their own RIA practices.


The majority of our advisors are entrepreneurial independent contractors who are primarily located in rural and suburban areas and as such are viewed as local providers of independent advice. Many of our advisors operate under their own business name, and we may assist these advisors with their own branding, marketing and promotion, and regulatory review.


Advisors licensed with LPL Financial as registered representatives and as investment advisory representatives are able to conduct both commission-based business on our brokerage platform and fee-based business on our corporate RIA platform. In order to be licensed with LPL Financial, advisors must be approved through our assessment process, which includes a thorough review of each advisor’s education, experience, and credit and compliance history. Approved advisors become registered with LPL Financial and enter into a representative agreement that establishes the duties and responsibilities of each party. Pursuant to the representative agreement, each advisor makes a series of representations, including that the advisor will disclose to all clients and prospective clients that the advisor is acting as LPL Financials registered representative or investment advisory representative, that all orders for securities will be placed through LPL Financial, that the advisor will sell only products that LPL Financial has approved, and that the advisor will comply with LPL Financial policies and procedures as well as securities rules and regulations. These advisors also agree not to engage in any outside business activity without prior approval from us and not to act in competition with us.
LPL Financial also supports over 375 stand-alone RIA firms ("Hybrid RIAs") with over 3,900 advisors who conduct their advisory business through these separate entities, rather than through LPL Financial. Hybrid RIAs operate pursuant to the Investment Advisers Act of 1940, as amended (the "Advisers Act") or their respective states investment advisory licensing rules. These Hybrid RIAs engage us for technology, clearing, and custody services, as well as access to certain of our investment platforms. Advisors associated with Hybrid RIAs retain 100% of their advisory fees. In return, we charge separate fees for custody, trading, administrative, and support services. In addition, most financial advisors associated with Hybrid RIAs carry their brokerage license with LPL Financial and access our fully-integrated brokerage platform under standard terms, although some financial advisors associated with Hybrid RIAs do not carry a brokerage license with us.
We believe we are the market leader in providing support to over 2,200 financial advisors at approximately 700 banks and credit unions nationwide. For these institutions, the core capabilities of which may not include investment and financial planning services, or that find the technology, infrastructure, and regulatory requirements of supporting such services to be cost-prohibitive, we provide their financial advisors with the infrastructure and services they need to be successful, allowing the institutions to focus more energy and capital on their core businesses.


A subset of our advisors provides advice and serves group retirement plans primarily for small and mid-size businesses. These advisors serve over 32,300 retirement plans representing $83.0 billion in retirement plan assets custodied at various custodians. LPL Financial provides these advisors with marketing tools and technology capabilities that are designed for retirement solutions.


We also provide support to approximately 4,200 additional financial advisors who are affiliated and licensed with insurance companies. These arrangements allow us to provide outsourced customized clearing, advisory platforms, and technology solutions that enable the financial advisors at these insurance companies to offer a breadth of services to their client base in an efficient manner.

Our Value Proposition
The core of our business is dedicated to meeting the evolving needs of our advisors and providing the platform and tools to grow and enhance the profitability of their businesses. We are dedicated to continuously improving the processes, systems, and resources we leverage to meet these needs.
We support our advisors by providing front-, middle-, and back-office solutions through our distinct value proposition: integrated technology solutions, comprehensive clearing and compliance services, consultive practice management programs and training, and independent research. The comprehensive and increasingly automated nature of our offering enables our advisors to focus on their clients while successfully and efficiently managing the complexities of running their own practice.

Integrated Technology Solutions
We provide our technology and service to advisors through an integrated technology platform that is server-based and web-accessible. Our technology offerings are designed to permit our advisors to effectively manage all critical aspects of their businesses in an efficient manner while remaining responsive to their clients’ needs. We continue to automate time-consuming processes, such as account opening and management, document imaging, transaction execution, and account rebalancing, in an effort to improve our advisors efficiency and accuracy.

Comprehensive Clearing and Compliance Services
We provide custody and clearing services for the majority of our advisors’ transactions, providing a simplified and streamlined advisor experience and expedited processing capabilities. Our self-clearing platform enables us to better control client data, more efficiently process and report trades, facilitate platform development, reduce costs, and ultimately enhance the service experience for our advisors and their clients. Our self-clearing platform also enables us to serve a wider range of advisors, including Hybrid RIAs and their associated advisors.
We continue to make substantial investments in our compliance function to provide our advisors with a strong framework through which to understand and operate within regulatory guidelines, as well as guidelines that we establish. Protecting the best interests of investors and our affiliated advisors is of utmost importance to us. As the financial industry and regulatory environment evolve and become more complex, we remain devoted to serving our clients ethically and exceedingly well. We have made a long-term commitment to enhancing our risk management and compliance structure. Our technology-based compliance and risk management tools further enhance the overall effectiveness and scalability of our control environment.
Our team of risk and compliance employees assist our advisors through:

training and advising advisors on new products, new regulatory guidelines, compliance and risk management tools, security policies and procedures, anti-money laundering, and best practices;

supervising sales practice activities and facilitating the oversight of activities for branch managers;

conducting technology-enabled surveillance of trading activities and sales practices;

for advisors on our corporate RIA platform, overseeing and monitoring of registered investment advisory activities; and

inspecting branch offices and advising on how to strengthen compliance procedures.
Practice Management Programs and Training
Our practice management programs are designed to help financial advisors in independent practices and financial institutions, as well as all levels of financial institution leadership, enhance and grow their businesses. Our experience gives us the ability to benchmark the best practices of successful advisors and develop customized recommendations to meet the specific needs of an advisor’s business and market, and our scale allows us to dedicate a team of experienced professionals to this effort. Our practice management and training services include:

personalized business consulting that helps eligible advisors and program leadership enhance the value and operational efficiency of their businesses;

advisory and brokerage consulting and financial planning to support advisors in growing their businesses through our broad range of products and fee-based offerings, as well as wealth management services to assist advisors serving high-net-worth clients with comprehensive estate, tax, philanthropic, and financial planning processes;

marketing strategies, including campaign templates, to enable advisors to build awareness of their services and capitalize on opportunities in their local markets; succession planning and an advisor loan program for advisors looking to either sell their own or buy another practice;

transition services to help advisors establish independent practices and migrate client accounts to us; and

in-person and virtual training and educational programs on topics including technology, use of advisory platforms, and business development.

Independent Research
We provide our advisors with integrated access to comprehensive research on a broad range of investments and market analysis on macro-economic events, capital markets assumptions, and strategic and tactical asset allocation. Our research team provides advice that is designed to empower our advisors to provide their clients with thoughtful advice in a timely manner, including the creation of discretionary portfolios for which we serve as a portfolio manager that are available through our turnkey advisory asset management platforms. Our research team actively works with our product due diligence group to effectively scrutinize the financial products offered through our platform. This includes third-party asset manager search, selection, and monitoring services for both traditional and alternative strategies across all investment access points (ETFs, mutual funds, separately managed accounts, unified managed accounts, and other products and services). Our lack of proprietary products or investment banking services enables us to provide research that remains unbiased and objective.



   Company Address: 4707 Executive Drive, San Diego, 92121 CA
   Company Phone Number: 877-7210   Stock Exchange / Ticker: NASDAQ LPLA
   


   

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Management Announcement

LPL Financial Secures $700 Million AUM Boost with Acquisition of Five Independent Teams

Published Thu, Mar 14 2024 1:00 PM UTC

LPL Financial Attracts Five Independent Teams Managing $700 Million AUM
SAN DIEGO, March 14, 2024 - In a notable move to expand its reach and strengthen its financial advisory services, LPL Financial LLC has announced the addition of seven experienced financial advisors from five prominent firms. As a result, LPL Financial's broker-dealer, Registered Investment Advisor (...

Management Changes

Brian Pflaum Brings $345 Million in Assets to LPL Financial, Reinforcing Their Position as Industry Leader

Published Tue, Mar 12 2024 1:00 PM UTC

LPL Financial Welcomes Advisor Brian Pflaum, Adding Impressive $345 Million to Their Portfolio
In a recent announcement, LPL Financial LLC revealed that accomplished financial advisor Brian M. Pflaum, MBA has joined their team. With a reported $345 million in advisory, brokerage, and retirement plan assets, Pflaum brings a wealth of experience and a strong client base to...

Partnership

LPL Financial Welcomes Aero Capital, Reports Steady Revenue Growth and Impressive Profitability

Published Wed, Mar 6 2024 2:01 PM UTC

LPL Financial LLC, a leading financial services firm, has recently announced the addition of Brice Lowe CFP, CPWA and Bradley Moser CFP to its broker-dealer, RIA, and custodial platforms. The advisors bring with them a successful track record, having served approximately $150 million in advisory, brokerage, and retirement plan assets. Previously associated with Stifel Financ...

Partnership

LPL Financial Expands Advisor Network with RFS Financial Services and Welcomes Andrew Kutanovski to its Platform

Published Mon, Mar 4 2024 2:01 PM UTC

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Product Service News

LPL Financial Welcomes Prominent Financial Advisors to Accelerate Growth

Published Thu, Feb 29 2024 2:00 PM UTC

LPL Financial Expands Its Reach with New AdditionsIn recent news, LPL Financial LLC has announced the addition of two prominent financial advisory firms to its network. This move signifies the company's commitment to expanding its broker-dealer, RIA, and custodial platforms, setting the stage for substantial growth opportunities.One of the newly added firms is Endeavor Weal...






 

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