Alden is home to many experienced and successful financial advisory groups that guide and manage investments for thousands of individual investor clients. Advisors who are part of the Alden team hold their advisory license with one of our Alden registered investment advisor (“RIA”) entities. If any of these advisors have brokerage securities licenses, they may also be registered with our Alden broker/dealer. As an independent RIA platform, Alden provides multiple custodial solutions for our financial advisors and their clients, including Charles Schwab, Fidelity, Interactive Brokers, and others. Alden can also support our advisors with industry-leading technology, security, compliance, and operational solutions to keep their focus on serving their clients. In addition, since Alden is also an asset manager, we can manage client accounts as an outsourced chief investment officer or separately managed account provider and propose third-party and alternative investment solutions. Financial advisors come to Alden from various firms, including wirehouses, such as Merrill Lynch, bank firms, such as Wells Fargo Advisors, and brokerage/insurance firms, such as LPL and Ameriprise. Alden focuses its time and resources on bringing the solutions, technology, and operational support to serve our financial advisors and their clients in a safe and value-added manner.

Alden Investment Group has its own independent broker/dealer, J. Alden Associates. J. Alden was established in 1994 and has a clearing relationship with Raymond James. Alden’s broker/dealer has over a dozen FINRA-approved lines of business. It can accommodate traditional brokerage for equities, options and bonds, insurance business, mutual funds, private placements, investment banking, and other securities transactions. This allows us to work with various firms, including independent investment advisors, insurance carriers, family offices, other broker dealers, and asset managers who need a robust yet flexible securities platform to conduct transactions and collect/distribute fees to licensed personnel. Our friendly BD focus is to seek alignment with the firms we work with based on several factors, including our ability to safely and securely meet their transaction needs, our comfort with their firm and the individuals who run it, as well as those that will be registered with our BD, our ability to not only support but also add value to their BD needs, and our and their willingness to work together on both the business they have today on new synergies between our firms and clients. Alden also provides a comprehensive reporting system for hybrid BD teams to consolidate their advisory and BD business and run comprehensive reports for their clients.

Alden Investment Group partners with a select group of financial service providers who offer specialized expertise across key areas such as investment research, asset management, and capital solutions. By leveraging the strengths of these trusted providers, we ensure a well-rounded, high-quality experience that aligns with its commitment to client-focused financial guidance.