About LPL
LPL Financial was founded with a pioneering vision: to help entrepreneurial financial advisors establish successful businesses through which they could offer independent financial guidance and advice. Today we provide an integrated platform of proprietary technology, brokerage, and investment advisory services to over 16,000 financial advisors as the nation’s largest independent broker/dealer,* making us a leading distributor of financial products in the United States. In addition, we support over 4,000 financial advisors with customized clearing, advisory platform, and technology solutions.
Even as our firm has grown over the years, we remain singularly focused on helping financial advisors to manage the complexity of their investment practices so they can better serve their clients in pursuing important financial goals. And, because we do not offer proprietary products, LPL Financial enables the independent financial advisors, banks, and credit unions with whom we partner to offer their clients objective, independent advice. Our open-architecture platform provides our customers with access to thousands of commission, fee-based, cash, and money market
products manufactured by hundreds of third-party product sponsors.
Our customers
For more than 20 years, the LPL Financial Commitment Creed has been central to our culture and reflects our firm’s singular focus on serving the customer. Our 4,200 employees in Boston, Charlotte, and San Diego come to work every day focused on living this commitment.
We tailor our programs and services to the diverse needs of our customers, enabling them to remain focused on understanding and meeting their clients’needs.
* As reported by Financial Planning magazine, June 1996-2018, based on total revenue.