Advisor attends leaders conference
Published 8:54 pm Sunday, May 21, 2017
From Edward Jones
Local financial adviser Roy L. Parker recently returned from Edward Jones’ Financial Advisor Leaders Conference.
This conference recognizes financial advisers who are among the leaders in the financial services firm.
Parker was among the only 538 financial advisers who qualified out of the firm’s 14,000 financial advisors in the U.S. and Canada.
The 2017 conference was held May 10-12 at the firm’s headquarters in St. Louis.
“Qualifying for this conference shows a tremendous amount of discipline, commitment and work ethic,” said Alan Kindsvater, an Edward Jones partner responsible for Advanced Branch Training, and host of the conference.
Edward Jones, a Fortune 500 company, provides financial services for individual investors in the United States and, through its affiliate, in Canada. Every aspect of the firm’s business, from the types of investment options offered to the location of branch offices, is designed to cater to individual investors in the communities in which they live and work. The firm’s 15,000-plus financial advisers work directly with more than 7 million clients.