CKW Wealth Joins The LPL Platform With $175M In AUM

CKW Wealth Management, a New Jersey-based RIA, is joining the LPL Financial LLC broker-dealer/RIA platform with $175 million in client assets under management.

CKW, with offices in Sparta and Chester, N.J., was formerly with 1^st Global of Dallas, Texas. The firm is aligning with LPL Financial enterprise firm Private Advisor Group (PAG) of Morristown, N.J..

As of September 30, 2018, LPL reported advisory & brokerage assets of $681 billion; advisory assets of $306 billion; and a Q3 2018 gross profit of $493 million. LPL has 16,174 financial advisors and 4,101 employees.