The Best of Both Worlds

The old ways are dying. The recent financial crisis has shaken what little confidence remained in old-school Wall Street brokerage firms. Advisors who remain tied to old business models are forced to endure the deteriorating quality of their professional lives, declining brand value, and increasing client unrest.

A Community of Advisors

HighTower is a community of highly qualified advisors. As equity owners in the business, advisors are encouraged to share ideas, exchange perspectives, and participate in a society of people with similar needs and principles. HighTower will work with advisors to develop groups to address industry issues and topics, and host internal events, conferences, and other information exchange forums.

A New Independent Business Model

As operators of a new company, we are free to look at the financial services business as it is today, not as it was a century (or a decade) ago. Here’s what we see: An opportunity to help advisors become fully independent without the financial exposure, transitional risk and administrative burdens that have blocked their path in the past.

HighTower positions you to:

  • Act more effectively for your clients, as trends shift to favoring transparency and holistic wealth management services
  • Separate yourself and your business practices from investor skepticism due to recent Wall Street instability and scandals
  • Replace an environment where it is increasingly difficult to balance the interests of clients and the interests of the wirehouse with one in which your interests are aligned with those of your clients.
  • Focus on long-term business growth, rather than short-term production.

HighTower Offers The Best of Both Worlds

Compare the wirehouses, independent brokers and HighTower

MODEL HIGHTOWER WIREHOUSE/
BANK		 INDEPENDENT
BROKER DEALERS		 PURE RIA/
NO BROKERAGE
Equity Yes Maybe No No
Benefits Yes Yes No No
100% of Services
Needed		 Yes Yes No No
No Personal
Liability for
Business		 Yes Yes No No
Supports
Brokerage & RIA		 Yes No Yes No
Business
Ownership		 Yes No Yes Yes
100% Open
Architecture		 Yes Not Really Yes Yes
100% Autonomy Yes No Yes Yes
Succession
Planning		 Yes No No No
(Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley, UBS) (LPL, Raymond James) (Schwab, Fidelity)

Road to Independence

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