LPL Financial says it recently recruited advisors from rivals with nearly $500 million in total client assets.
Jim M. Freisen CFP, CPA, and Jordan Celkupa, CFP, joined from Sagepoint Financial, part of the Advisor Group network of broker-dealers. They work with $155 million in brokerage and advisory assets.
Freisen spent some 20 years on accounting work for mutual fund companies before jumping into the advice business with Celkupa and forming Triton Financial Planning Group, of Red Bank, New Jersey, about 10 years ago. (Their office also includes a tax specialist and an operations manager.)
Separately, Tarik Eldin and Mike Hastings with SCU Investment Services, part of Sacramento Credit Union, are now affiliated with LPL. They manage about $200 million and recently worked with Cetera Financial Services.
Eldin and Hastings are supported by registered sales assistant Deanna Mohorich.
Meanwhile, Ed Gormley, CFP, CPA, returned to LPL from Securities Service Network, where he managed about $140 million in assets.
Gormley founded Susquehanna Financial Advisors in 1994 after starting his career in international accounting and specializing in executive financial planning and taxes.