Daniel Wildermuth
President and CEO, Kalos Financial
Kalos Capital, Inc.
Kalos Financial, headquartered in Atlanta, GA, specializes in making independent financial advisors truly distinctive, helping them expand their businesses and grow their practices. Kalos pioneered the adaption of the Endowment Investment Strategy to the portfolios of individual investors.
Our focus and experience has enabled us to create a uniquely effective means to incorporate alternative investments in client portfolios. Our comprehensive product platform is much more extensive than the industry average and is supported by a rigorous and effective due diligence process that has strategically guided our advisors to avoid problem offerings that have plagued so many other broker/dealers.
Our advisors have access to client approved presentations and seminars on the endowment model strategy along with software that allows them to easily create and present an endowment model proposal to their clients and prospects. In addition, our CEO is the author of a McGraw-Hill published book entitled, “Wise Money” that explains how individual investors can adapt this strategy to their own personal portfolios. These tools and our training programs help our advisors differentiate themselves in a crowded marketplace.
Our advisors’ success in closing business and growing their practices are reflected in our past four year average broker/dealer revenue growth of over 50%. In fact, Investment News Magazine has named Kalos as one of the top 5 fastest growing broker/dealers (by rep count) for the past 4 years in a row. Remarkably, our regrettable attrition is zero advisors over the same time span. Our impeccable retention partly results from maintaining a consistent advisor to staff ratio of 3 to 1.
In addition to our Endowment Investment Model support, Kalos provides a robust investment advisory platform that includes access to multiple money managers, 20 different customized Kalos strategies, additional wrap fee programs, and transaction based services. We also provide a Unified Managed Account offering and Black Diamond performance reporting at no cost. Contact us to learn how you could benefit from a partnership with Kalos.
Securities offered through Kalos Capital, Inc., Member FINRA/SIPC/MSRB. Investment advisory services offered through Kalos Management, Inc., an SEC Registered Investment Adviser. These members of the Kalos Family of Companies are separate affiliated firms that share common ownership and are represented by the Kalos Financial service mark. 11525 Park Woods Circle, Alpharetta, GA 30005, Phone (678) 356-1100, Toll free (866) 525-6726.
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David Fischer
Managing Director
Independent Financial Group, LLC
The Incredible Rise Of Independent Financial Group
San Diego-based Broker-Dealer, Independent Financial Group (IFG), operates small while still competing with the big names by redefining the personalized approach to service. They’ve built a strong reputation based on relationships, one rep at a time.
The original vision for IFG developed organically out of a feeling of growing disillusionment with broker-dealers in general. Their goal was to be better and they’ve accomplished just that.
Earlier this year, IFG scored a 9.7 out of 10 in rep satisfaction1 according to their own advisors. They’re succeeding financially while making a positive impact on the individuals they work hard to support. IFG believes that kind of reward is the most profitable.
With the foundation established by its three founders: Scott Heising, David Fischer and Joe Miller IFG has caught up, surpassed in some instances, its competition in a very short amount of time by continuing to stay true to the fundamentals. They communicate openly, establish mutual trust with reps, act with integrity, provide a down-to-earth and personalized approach to back office support and make sure their reps’ needs always come first. It’s a simple formula and they stick to it.
1. Ranked by REP. Magazine’s 2015 Independent Broker-Dealer Survey.
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