National Retirement Partners Brings in 120th Member Firm Office - July 2, 2008

(San Juan Capistrano, CA) National Retirement Partners, Inc. (NRP), the nation’s largest network of independent retirement focused firms, announced today that seven more practices joined NRP in the second quarter of 2008.

With these latest additions, NRP now has 120 member firm offices in 40 states nation wide. NRP will soon be announcing the details of an additional 10 offices which are scheduled to transition to NRP Financial over the next few months.  NRP is on target for hitting its goal of 150 offices by the end of 2008. 

 

The new member firms are:

Firm                                                    Location                        Principal

Daher Capital Group                            Wellington, FL               Howard Daher

Epic Retirement Services                      New York, NY             J eff Greenburg, Eva Kalivas

First Financial Resources                      Charlotte, NC                Randy Riggins

McGuiness Wealth Management           Selkirk, NY                   Brain McGuiness

National Penn Capital                           Doylestown, PA             Vaughn Landes

Pension Architects                                Malibu, CA                   Philip Steele

Wharton Retirement Services                Fort Washington, PA     John Wenz

 

“We are well on our way of executing on the first stage of our strategy which includes aggregating 200 of the largest, most qualified and experienced institutional retirement practices in the country,” said NRP CEO Bill Chetney.  “We are now also very focused on executing on stage two, which is leveraging the strengths of our existing practices to help them expand aggressively into wealth management.  Considering the trend of assets moving from qualified plans to IRAs, the rollover opportunity alone is staggering. NRP is extremely well positioned to take advantage of this opportunity.”

 

With 120 member firm practices, NRP has over $55 billion in institutional retirement plan assets in over 6,000 retirement plans.  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.