SAN DIEGO, CA — (Marketwire) — 08/21/12 — BrightScope (), a leading provider of independent financial information and investment research, today announced the Top 25 Registered Investment Advisor (RIA) firms in the St. Louis area, focused on individual money management, with the greatest amount of assets under management. This list is part of the series that BrightScope regularly issues to highlight data contained within its Advisor Pages, a breakthrough way for people to discover, research, and select a financial advisor.
“One of the principal objectives of BrightScope Advisor Pages is to create a community of users by redefining the way investors and advisors engage with each other,” said Mike Alfred, CEO and co-founder of BrightScope. “With BrightScope Advisor Pages we are revolutionizing the investor-advisor relationship and dramatically increasing the accessibility of financial information, which results in better financial decisions to help millions retire in dignity.”
By aggregating hard-to-discover but publicly available information on advisors, BrightScope has created a free, easy-to-use database that is searchable from multiple dimensions. BrightScope-s Advisor Pages features the data most critical to investors tasked with making an informed decision on which financial professional best meets their needs, including location, qualifications, amount and types of assets under management, area of specialty, legal disputes, formal complaints and more.
Top 25 St. Louis area-based advisors by total assets under management:
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1. – $3.2B
2. – $2.1B
3. – $1.6B
4. – $1.4B
5. – $1.3B
6. – $1.2B
7. – $845.2M
8. – $747.9M
9. – $678.3M
10. – $654.0M
11. – $515.0M
12. – $416.0M
13. – $315.9M
14. – $266.8M
15. – $265.4M
16. – $253.6M
17. – $215.4M
18. – $212.0M
19. – $201.7M
20. – $199.0M
21. – $189.8M
22. – $179.7M
23. – $150.2M
24. – $138.7M
25. – $129.1M
BrightScope obtains its data directly from publicly available sources, including required regulatory filings from the Securities and Exchange Commission. Financial advisors can augment these primary sources by claiming their BrightScope Advisor Page. By analyzing and interpreting this data, BrightScope now provides unparalleled insight into the financial management industry
For more information about BrightScope Advisor Pages or to find information on a financial advisor, please visit .
BrightScope is a financial information company that brings transparency to opaque markets through independent research and analysis. Delivered through web-based software, BrightScope data drives better decision-making for individual investors, corporate plan sponsors, asset managers, broker-dealers, and financial advisors. The BrightScope Rating, developed in partnership with leading independent 401k fiduciaries, reviews more than 200 unique data inputs per plan and calculates a single numerical score which defines plan quality at the company level. In April 2011, the company launched BrightScope Advisor Pages, the first comprehensive and publicly available directory of financial advisors designed to help consumers discover information and conduct due diligence on wealth management professionals. BrightScope also markets a suite of data analytics software products to Fortune 1000 companies, asset managers, broker-dealers, financial advisors, and other market participants. Public ratings for more than 46,000 retirement plans as well as rating definitions, criteria and methodologies, and information on more than 770,000 financial advisors and nearly 45,000 advisory firms are available for free at .
Jen Harding
Atomic PR for BrightScope
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