This holiday almost shuts down LPL at all locations and was started as a tradition by Todd Robinson, the original founder of LPL.
What is Halloween?
100
These are names of two of the five advisory platforms.
What are SAM, MS, OMP, PWP or MWP?
100
This LPL service empowers financial advisors to compete for, win and retain business a specific segment of clients and institutions. This is achieved by providing centralized access to specialized experts who can offer advice and implementation strategies across the spectrum of wealth management needs.
What is High-Net-Worth Consulting?
100
This technology helps advisors manage all their business needs in one place from any location.
What is BranchNet?
100
This is the interaction of multiple elements in a system to produce an effect different from or greater than the sum of their individual effects. The term comes from the Greek word συνεργός, meaning "working together".
What is Synergy?
200
The two original headquarter cities of Linsco and Private Ledger.
What is Boston and San Diego?
200
This platform is often called the “small account solution” and combines mutual funds from Delaware investments with LPL Research asset allocation models
What is Optimum Market Portfolios?
200
This program is a fee-based initiative that allows qualified advisors to provide consultation and advice to plan sponsors using the LPL Financial corporate RIA.
What is The Retirement Plan Consulting Program (RPCP)?
200
This is an informational hub within BranchNet that provides advisors with advanced business management resources.
What is the Resource Center?
200
The primary U.S. agency involved with regulating the stock market.
What is the SEC?
300
This new process was added within BrandPartners to keep projects moving through the pipeline and create accountability with clients.
What are (third round) bill backs?
300
Two platforms allow advisors to use separate accounts. Name one.
What is Personal Wealth Portfolios or Manager Select?
300
This product provides qualified investors with exposure to markets and investment strategies that cannot be accessed through traditional fixed income and equity markets.
What is Alternative investments?
300
Led by Burt White, this internal team provides clients with actionable, unbiased investment advice and support materials.
What is the Research Team?
300
These are are things you own. These can be cash or something that can be converted into cash such as property, vehicles, equipment and inventory.
What are Assets?
400
This member of BrandPartners was hired specifically to focus on marketing consultations.
Who is Andy and/or Jerry?
400
This platform provides the most flexibility with its open architecture structure. Advisors can charge a fee based on the assets in the account and design their own portfolios or use Research’s recommended list.
What is SAM?
400
Hedge Funds, Fund of Hedge Funds, Alternative Strategy Mutual Funds, Private Equity and Real Estate (REITS, Limited Partnerships), are all examples of what type of LPL product?
What are Alternative Investments?
400
This group consisting of a team of professionals working together to help you increase the value of each clients business?
What is the Business Consulting Group?
400
A calculation that works out how efficient a business is at generating profit from the original equity provided by the owners/shareholders.
What is Return on investment (ROI)?
500
This is the year that LPL Financial went self clearing.
What is 2000?
500
This platform is a separate account available through LPL Financial that offers high-net-worth investors access to a variety of institutional portfolio managers at significantly lower account minimums.
What is Manager Select?
500
As more Americans near or reach retirement, this product becomes increasingly important to helping preserve the wealth they have built.
What are Fixed Income Strategies?
500
With this capability, advisors can open 99.5% of common account types online (including most advisory accounts) and immediately perform trades.
What is Self-Clearing?
500
Within LPL, they boast the tagline, "the agency that lives your business"?