NFP Advisor Services Group Launches Retirement Center Offering Exclusive Support for Retirement Plan Advisors

NEW YORK, July 23, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- NFP Advisor Services Group, a leading financial services firm serving independent advisors, including RIAs and hybrids, today announced the launch of the Retirement Center. The new Retirement Center advances an already robust retirement plan offering at NFP by connecting advisors, particularly those focused on high net worth clients who tend to be business owners and executives, with an extensive resource center featuring our expertise across retirement plans and corporate benefits. 

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The Retirement Center consolidates access to extensive retirement resources and plan experts. It also showcases the innovative NFP services advisors can use to effectively address a business owner or executive's personal retirement needs. 

The Retirement Center offering includes customized marketing support, discounted fiduciary certification services, and access to outside legal resources and executive compensation/benefits experts.  This resource empowers advisors to not only win retirement plan business, but also to execute the complex benefit strategies that will establish the deep and lasting relationships with executives and business owners that truly differentiate the most successful practices. 

James Poer, president of NFP Advisor Services Group, said, "Retirement plan business is one of the many disciplines our sophisticated advisors use to grow their business and create relationships with executives and business owners.  We've always been committed to this business and are proud to roll out the next generation of support that highlights the unique combination of capabilities that only NFP can provide."

Ed O'Malley, president of NFP Corporate Client Group, said "The Retirement Center is a collection of the rich and diverse expertise exclusive to NFP with the added benefit of our depth and breadth of capabilities across multiple business lines. By connecting advisors with these elite resources, we are investing in their future success as no other firm can."

About NFP Advisor Services Group
NFP Advisor Services Group, a business segment of NFP, serves independent financial advisors whose clients include high net worth individuals and companies by offering broker/dealer and asset management products and services through NFP Securities, Inc., member FINRA/SIPC, and NFP IndeSuite, Inc. NFP Advisor Services Group attracts financial advisors seeking to provide clients with sophisticated resources and an open choice of products.

About NFP
National Financial Partners Corp. (NFP) and its benefits, insurance and wealth management businesses provide diversified advisory and brokerage services to companies and high net worth individuals, partnering with them to preserve their assets and prosper over the long term. NFP advisors provide innovative and comprehensive solutions, backed by NFP's national scale and resources. NFP operates in three business segments. The Corporate Client Group provides corporate and executive benefits, retirement plans and property and casualty insurance. The Individual Client Group includes retail and wholesale life insurance brokerage and wealth management advisory services. The Advisor Services Group serves independent financial advisors by offering broker/dealer and asset management products and services. Most recently NFP was ranked in the top 10 on Business Insurance's 100 Largest Brokers of U.S. Business and Best's Review Top Global Insurance Broker lists; second on Business Insurance's Largest Agents and Brokers Headquartered in the U.S. Northeast; it operates the third largest executive benefits provider of nonqualified deferred compensation plans by total clients as ranked by PlanSponsor; operates a top 10 independent broker/dealer as ranked by Investment Advisor; and has three advisors ranked in Barron's Top 100 Independent Financial Advisors. NFP is also a leading independent life insurance distributor according to many top-tier carriers. For more information, visit www.nfp.com.

SOURCE NFP Advisor Services Group