National Retirement Partners Garners 100th Member Firm - February 14, 2008

(San Juan Capistrano, CA) National Retirement Partners, Inc. (NRP), one of the nation’s largest networks of independent retirement plan focused advisors, announced today that four more pension focused organizations have recently joined the existing NRP membership as of the end of January.

With these new members, NRP has surpassed a significant milestone of 100 retirement focused member firms. IBG Financial Partners LLC has the distinction of being the 100^th firm to join NRP. Based in Foxboro, MA, IBG focuses on the needs of retirement plans and their participants in the greater Boston area.

“Being the 100^th NRP Member Firm is an honor as well as a testament to the culture and people at NRP. My partner Ted Burke and I looked at a number of high quality firms prior to joining NRP. I believe NRP offers a superior value proposition to any firm that has a strong retirement plan consulting business” states Peter Vacheron, Principal of IBG.

"Our goal is to have representation from the highest quality advisor practices in all 50 states. We are well on our way to that goal with practices in 37 states.” said Bill Chetney, President and CEO at NRP. “In addition to our success in growing the number of advisor practices joining NRP, we have made great strides in expanding the depth and breathe of our existing practices. Assisting our practices with expansion into employee benefits, deferred compensation and wealth management is going very well and will continue to be a priority for us.”

 

NRP’s rapid growth is expected to continue with sights on expansion to over 150 member firms by the end of 2008. NRP continually searches for industry leading, pension focused advisors who wish to team up with like-minded, forward thinking individuals and organizations, share their expertise, and benefit from the invaluable tools and resources we offer members.

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National Retirement Partners, Inc. (NRP) is one of the country’s largest networks of independent advisors who provide consulting and investment services to retirement plan sponsors and participants nationwide. NRP is dedicated to supporting advisors who service the retirement plan marketplace. Our independent perspective has been utilized by thousands of companies nationwide, with billions in retirement plan assets. Sharing diverse talents, expertise and a common focus, NRP Member Firms are able to deliver to clients what had traditionally only been available to larger firms - heightened best practices and investment due diligence, open architecture plan analysis and design, independent vendor search and benchmarking analysis and high quality service and communications.  For more information about NRP, please visit www.n-r-p.com.