LPL is one of the nation's leading financial services companies LPL Financial, a registered investment advisor.

LPL was founded with a pioneering vision: to help entrepreneurial financial advisors establish successful businesses ...
See More through which they could offer truly independent financial guidance and advice. Today we provide an integrated platform of proprietary technology, brokerage, and investment advisory services to over 13,000 financial advisors as the nation’s largest independent broker/dealer,* making us a leading provider of financial services 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 achieving important financial goals. And, because we do not offer proprietary products, LPL enables the independent financial advisors, banks, and credit unions whom we service to offer their clients truly objective, conflict-free 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 Commitment Creed has been central to our culture and reflects our firm’s singular focus on serving the customer. Our more than 2,900 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 in Financial Planning magazine 1996-2012, based on total revenues.

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