Certuity Recognized in Financial Planning’s RIA Leaders 2023: Top 150 Fee-Only List

December 2023 – Certuity is one of 150 RIA Firms listed in Financial Planning’s RIA Leaders 2023: Top 150 Fee-Only List.

FP’s data partner for the RIA Leaders feature, COMPLY, produced the rankings by applying the following six criteria to firms’ required SEC Form ADV filings in July 2023.

  • Firms must have zero registered representatives of a broker-dealer.
  • At least 50% of the firm’s clients must be individuals or high net worth individuals.
  • Firms must not list commissions as a compensation arrangement.
  • Firms must have more than zero financial planning clients.
  • Firms must not list commission-taking businesses in “other business activities.”
  • Firms cannot be affiliated under common ownership with commission-taking businesses.

Certuity provides a holistic approach to wealth management, legacy planning and family office services. Certuity’s independent structure, objective platform and underlying fiduciary duty differentiate it from a majority of traditional wealth management firms with inherent conflicts of interest.

Certuity and its advisors have been recognized in Barron’s Top U.S. Advisors Ranked by State 2014-2023 and America’s Top 100 Independent Advisors 2016-2019, Forbes’ Top Women Advisors 2020-2021 and Best-in-State Advisors 2020-2023, The Financial Times Top 300 Financial Advisors 2015-2020, Financial Advisors Magazine’s Top 50 Fastest Growing Firms 2013 & 2019 and RIA Ranking 2019-2022, Citywire RIA’s Fasted Growers Across America 2023, and the Los Angeles Business Journal’s Banking and Finance Visionaries 2021-2023.

Certuity has offices in New York City, North Palm Beach, San Francisco, Manhattan Beach and Santa Monica.

The recognition was issued November 22, 2023 and applies November 2023 through November 2024.