Edwards firm adds Florida office, millions in assets

May 11, 2015, 1:34pm CDT
Edwards firm adds Florida office,
millions in assets
Tad Edwards
Benjamin F. Edwards & Co., which has more than $15 billion in assets
under management, has opened a sixth Florida office and added several
investment advisers and $600 million in assets.
In addition to the new office, in Sarasota, the firm has Florida offices in
Boynton Beach, Destin, Melbourne, Panama City and Pensacola. It also
added advisers in existing offices, including Melbourne; Peoria, Illinois;
Harrison, Arkansas; and Highlands, North Carolina. The advisers came
primarily from Wells Fargo Advisors and Morgan Stanley.
In all, the investment firm, founded in Clayton in 2008 by Tad Edwards,
has 50 branch offices in 24 states, more than 400 employees and 84,000
accounts.
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