Best Financial Advisor List

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January 31, 2010

Are the days of making huge returns on our investments long gone? Will we need to watch the constant fluctuations of stock tickers all day long? Can we fund our retirements off “safe” investments like treasury bonds? The tumultuous financial market has created an opening for advisory services to flourish, but many Americans are wondering who they can really trust. After all, bad advice from personal financial advisors is partially to blame for many people’s losses. To help guide you in the right financial advisor direction, Barron’s magazine has listed their top 1,000 professionals who have yielded double digits for their clients.

Barron’s top financial advisors are primarily listed by state, although there were also some financial advisor winners who emerged across the board. Merrill Lynch, for instance, had 239 of its advisors make the list. Even though the company was teetering on the verge of bankruptcy before being acquired by Bank of America last year, their established presence in every state has helped them remain afloat in troubled times. “We are continuing to set the standard by which other advisory firms are measured,” explains SVP Dan Sontag, head of Global Private Client’s Americas Advisory Division. “Our growing number of advisors on the Barron’s list reflects the strength and depth of our entire field.”

Clarfeld is another one of the top financial advisor firms in the nation. “Just as impassioned scientists don’t go to the laboratory in search of a Nobel Prize, we never perform our services for the sake of winning awards or rankings,” the company states. “Yet, truly, we are at once humbled by and proud of this special moment in our firm’s evolution and the recognition we have received from one of the premier financial publications in the world.” For over 28 years, Clarfeld has focused on value-added services like tax planning, investment management and financial planning.

It’s a tough time for the financial advisor today. In a recent study conducted by the Financial Research Corp, 40% of advisors surveyed said they experienced staff cutbacks this year, 31% reported cuts in marketing support and 27% said their compensation structures declined. Across all channels, 61% of top-level financial advisors said they spent more time meeting with clients. “We call this the advisor pinch,” explains Margaret Rorick, senior VP of research at FRC. “They have to do more with less and are getting more questions from clients. Advisors have to do more of the back office work and spend more time meeting with clients. They have to do more research to come up with answers and provide education for clients. That makes it harder for them. And not many people stop and feel bad for advisors.”

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