Cetera Financial Group today announced it has enrolled about 3,500 financial advisors for membership of the Financial Services Institute (FSI) to help bolster advocacy efforts at FSI, a trade group for independent broker-dealers and financial advisors.

All three Cetera broker-dealers--Financial Network Investment Corporation, Multi-Financial Securities Corp. and PrimeVest Financial Services, Inc.--and their affiliated advisors are now FSI members for the next 12 months. Cetera Financial Group is the parent company of the nation's largest privately-held family of independent broker-dealers.

With the addition of the Cetera advisors, FSI's membership count is now more than 31,500 financial advisors, said FSI spokesman Chris Paulitz.

"With new regulations constantly coming from Washington and each of the states, our industry must get even more engaged in helping shape effective regulation,'' said Valerie Brown, Cetera Financial Group CEO and a member of the FSI Board of Directors.