2025 FPA NorCal Conference
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2025 Platinum Partners

2025 FPA NorCal Partner: Commonwealth Financial Network

Commonwealth Financial Network, Member FINRA/SIPC, a Registered Investment Adviser, provides financial advisors with holistic, integrated solutions that support business evolution, growth acceleration, and operational efficiency. J.D. Power ranks Commonwealth “#1 in Independent Advisor Satisfaction Among Financial Investment Firms, 11 Times in a Row.” Privately held since 1979, the firm has headquarters in Waltham, Massachusetts, and San Diego, California. Learn more about how Commonwealth partners with approximately 2,200 independent financial advisors overseeing more than $296 billion*** in assets nationwide by visiting www.commonwealth.com.

Jump is the AI Meeting Assistant for financial advisors. Advisors used to spend 18 hours per week on meeting related admin (notes, tasks, client emails, CRM logging). Jump uses AI to help you get that time back so you can serve more clients or go home early. Generate pre-meeting prep, meeting notes in your style, and task lists, then sync to CRM with one click. Do your post meeting work in 5 min, not 45. Jump is only for advisors, 100% customizable to your style, and is compliant and secure.

2025 FPA NorCal Partner: Libretto

Libretto is a new way to do planning and asset allocation. No risk questionnaires, no Monte Carlos; Libretto’s liability-driven planning framework helps advisors implement comprehensive lifecycle planning, design total wealth portfolios and deliver a personalized client experience. Build more robust solutions for your clients and join us in shaping the future of financial advice.

2025 FPA NorCal Partner: Midland Advisory

As part of Midland National Life Insurance Company, Midland Advisory specializes in solutions that help meet the needs of registered investment advisors (RIAs) and their clients—solutions that help mitigate risk, offer opportunity, and instill retirement confidence. We understand your commitment to your clients and to your advisory practice.

2025 Paladium Wi-Fi Partners

Vanilla

Visualize the true power of estate planning. Easily create estate documents, visualize plans, and do what-if scenario analysis – all with the power of AI. We make estate planning simple. We’re dedicated to helping advisors, planners, and attorneys deliver differentiated advice, expand their client relationships, win new business, and increase your ongoing value by offering simplified, scalable estate planning to every client.

2025 Gold Partners

2025 FPA NorCal Partner: Altruist

Altruist is the modern custodian for independent RIAs. Altruist combines a self-clearing brokerage firm with intuitive software for account opening, trading, reporting, and billing – all in one streamlined solution. With Altruist, you can create custom models, trade fractional shares, automate rebalancing, and share performance with clients using a modern mobile app. Learn more at https://www.altruist.com and follow Altruist on X @altruist.

2025 FPA NorCal Partner: American Century Investments

Managing Money, Making an Impact: Let's invest to make a difference in your life and the lives of others. Together we can become a powerful force for good.Being client-centric with a performance-first focus was the initial step—but not the end of the story. The vision has grown to include significant, ongoing contributions to humanity through breakthrough medical research. It's how we help our clients Prosper With Purpose.

American Heart Association

The American Heart Association’s Professional Advisor Network serves attorneys, financial advisors, estate planners, CPAs, and other professional advisors across the country. The Professional Advisor Network provides complimentary resources and education to enhance the admirable work of advisors as they empower clients to make a lifesaving impact today or with their legacy.

2025 FPA NorCal Partner: Charles Schwab

For over 30 years, Schwab has been a leader in supporting independent Registered Investment Advisors (RIAs). We are committed to the success of firms of all sizes, regardless of background, assets under management, or business complexity. Together, we can help you take your business further. Get started by discovering the breadth of services you can tap into when you choose Schwab as your custodian.

2025 FPA NorCal Partner: Dimensional

Dimensional Fund Advisors has been applying financial science to investing since 1981. Our firm is driven by an evidence-based approach, Nobel Prize-winning insights, and decades of expertise working to outperform benchmarks and peers while maintaining low costs and diversification. We go where the science leads, continually innovating to improve outcomes for investors. As of September 30, 2024, Dimensional and its affiliates managed $794 billion worldwide.

2025 FPA NorCal Partner: Federated Hermes

Federated Hermes, Inc. is a global leader in active, responsible investing, with $779 billion in assets under management, as of March 31, 2024. Guided by our conviction that responsible investing is the best way to create wealth over the long term, Federated Hermes offers world-class investment management and engagement services. Our products span equity, fixed-income, alternative/private markets, multi-asset and liquidity management strategies and a range of separately managed accounts, distributed through institutions and intermediaries worldwide.

Flourish builds technology that empowers financial advisors, improves financial lives and retirement outcomes, and delivers new and innovative investment options to advisors. Today, the Flourish platform is used by more than 900 wealth management firms representing more than $1.5 trillion in assets under management. Flourish is wholly-owned by MassMutual.

IDFA

The Institute for Divorce Financial Analysts (IDFA®) is the premier national organization dedicated to the certification, education and promotion of the use of financial professionals in the divorce arena. Founded in 1993, we have certified over 5,000 CDFA professionals in the US and Canada. The Institute for Divorce Financial Analysts is the authority on divorce planning theory and application in North America. IDFA has established standards for certification of divorce financial analysts that are objective, reliable meet and current benchmarks for certifying bodies.The IDFA helps to ensure the financial health and welfare of the divorcing public through the certification of individual as Certified Divorce Financial Analysts.

Nuveen

Nuveen is a global investment leader, managing an array of public and private assets for clients around the world and on behalf of our parent company TIAA, one of the world's largest institutional investors and highly-rated insurance and retirement provider. With diverse expertise across income and alternatives, we invest in the growth of businesses, real estate, infrastructure, farmland and forest to help make an enduring impact on our world.

2025 FPA NorCal Partner: Osterweis

Osterweis Capital Management was founded in 1983 to serve the portfolio management needs of high net worth individuals. We believe the best way to protect and grow assets is through carefully selected, high conviction portfolios that can capture upside while helping to protect on the downside. We manage over $8 billion in assets between our equity and fixed income investment strategies, which are available through mutual funds and separate accounts.

Saturna Capital

Saturna Capital combines independent, family-owned leadership with a conservative, values-driven investment philosophy to deliver low-risk, long-term financial solutions that align with clients’ ethical and life goals. Rooted in a culture of excellence, sustainability, and education, Saturna builds meaningful relationships with investors through personalized guidance, a holistic product suite, and a steadfast commitment to preserving and growing capital.

2025 FPA NorCal Partner: Stonecrest

Established in 1986, Stonecrest has successfully underwritten over 1.5 billion in residential and commercial loans while offering steady profits to our investors. We have multiple revenue channels in both Acquistion and Private Debt Funds. With 38 years experience, our dedicated professional have provided steady monthly income and overall portfolio yield as an alternative to bonds.

STP Investment Services helps financial firms navigate today’s complex investment and regulatory landscape by offering advanced outsourcing solutions for investment operations, fund administration, and compliance. STP ComplianceAdvisor is powered by experienced compliance professionals offering proactive, customized services to all types of investment advisers. STP partners with its clients, integrating fund administration, middle office and compliance services into one comprehensive program and provides firms with a holistic tech-enabled solution to reduce regulatory risk and drive growth.

2025 FPA NorCal Partner: Vanguard

Vanguard is one of the world's most respected investment management companies, offering a broad selection of investments, advice, retirement services, and insights to individual investors, institutions, and financial professionals. We operate under a unique, investor-owned structure and adhere to a simple purpose: To take a stand for all investors, to treat them fairly, and to give them the best chance for investment success.

2025 FPA NorCal Partner: William Blair

William Blair is committed to building enduring relationships with our clients. We work closely with private and public pension funds, insurance companies, endowments, foundations, and sovereign wealth funds, as well as financial advisors. We are 100% active employee-owned with broad-based ownership. Our investment teams are solely focused on active management and employ disciplined, analytical research processes across a wide range of strategies, including U.S. equity, non-U.S. equity, and emerging markets debt. William Blair is based in Chicago with global resources providing expertise and solutions to meet our clients’ evolving needs.

2025 Tech Lounge Partners

In a sea of fragmented advisor tech solutions, Advyzon stands out as a transformative alternative, built from the ground up as the wealth management industry’s only comprehensive technology platform. Our unified platform uses single source code to create a seamless user experience. Advyzon is a highly configurable platform that combines portfolio management, client reporting, billing, CRM, and a client portal in a command center, eliminating repetitive data entry, manual workflows, and friction-filled day-to-day experiences.

2025 FPA NorCal Partner: Holistiplan

Holistiplan is an award-winning financial planning tool specializing in tax and insurance risk management, soon expanding to estate planning. Its OCR technology scans tax returns to generate client-facing Tax Reports in 45 seconds, highlighting planning opportunities. The Scenario Analysis tool models scenarios like Roth conversions and charitable giving. Holistiplan’s Insurance Risk Management tool identifies coverage gaps in Home, Auto, and Umbrella policies. Trusted by over 30,000 users since 2019, it's a leader in tax planning software.

wealth.com is the industry’s leading estate planning platform, empowering 600+ wealth management firms to modernize the delivery of estate planning guidance to their clients. As the only tech-led, end-to-end estate planning platform built specifically for financial institutions, wealth.com helps drive scale and efficiency, meeting client needs across the wealth spectrum. Financial advisors ranked wealth.com as the #1 estate planning platform in the 2024 T3/Inside Information Advisor Software Survey. In 2024, wealth.com was honored by WealthManagement.com as the ‘Best Technology Provider’ in the Trust category, and CEO Rafael Loureiro received the Advisor Choice Award for Technology Providers: CEO of the Year.An industry employer of choice, wealth.com is rated among Fast Company’s 2024 Best Workplaces for Innovators and ranked #24 on Fortune’s list of the 100 Best Small Workplaces for 2024.

2025 Silver Lounge Partners

We offer a broad range of strategies, deep experience in sustainable investing and industry-leading customization and tax management solutions. Forward-thinking investors have more advanced needs.We provide a diverse selection of strategies and personalized wealth management solutions to meet them.

2025 FPA NorCal Partner: First Pacific Advisors

FPA is a Los Angeles-based institutional money management firm practicing a disciplined approach to value investing, prudently seeking superior long-term returns while maintaining a focus on capital preservation. As of September 30, 2024, FPA manages approximately $27 billion across multiple strategies. Independently owned FPA has 77 employees, with 20 investment professionals.

2025 FPA NorCal Partner: MFS

Creating value responsiblyOur purpose is to create long-term value responsibly. In 1924, recognizing an inadequate financial system, we launched the first US open-end mutual fund to give everyday investors access to the markets. For 100 years, we have been driven by our conviction to always do what’s best for clients, staying true to our active investment approach, our core values and our collaborative culture. Today, we have a global investment platform that has been shaped by a century of putting clients first.

PIMCO

PIMCO is a global leader in active fixed income with deep expertise across public and private markets. Our extensive resources, global presence and time-tested investment process are designed to help give our clients an edge as they pursue their long-term goals. Our clients rely on an investment process that has been tested in virtually every market environment. Honed over more than five decades, our process takes an integrated approach to employ our best ideas across public and private markets worldwide.

2025 FPA NorCal Partner: Scholar Share

Scholarshare 529 is California's advisor supported, direct sold 529 education savings program. For clients and families, the expense of higher education is a daunting task, and an important planning opportunity.529 programs offer tax free growth for client's objectives, and Scholarshare offers advisors the low cost infrastructure to keep clients on the path to success for their loved one's education goals.

Silicon Valley Community Foundation partners with financial planners to help them strategically support their clients' charitable goals. SVCF is the largest community foundation in the world, with $14 billion in charitable assets; we deployed over $4.5 billion in charitable grants in 2023 alone. We look forward to supporting your charitable planning practice.

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