Financial Advisor
Resume:
Kevin D. Meyer
La Jolla, CA 92037
************@*****.***
Professional Summary:
Skilled and motivated financial professional with five years of comprehensive experience providing financial advice. Excellent track record of acquiring and maintaining new client relationships. Successful at partnering with a senior producer to profile and prospect new client relationships. Strong knowledge of markets and effective in communicating and presenting investment strategies. Work Experience
TD Ameritrade Institutional, Sorrento Valley, CA
Relationship Manger, (Oct 2014 - Sept 2015)
• Supported RIA’s, breakaway brokers and their practices at every step of their client on boarding and support process.
• Implemented new team processes and efforts to make our services the most efficient, and advisor/client- centric.
• Talked with advisors and their clients on a 1-1 basis to help them both understand our platform and their accounts.
• Placed wires, journals, ACH’s and streamlined workflow among various sectors of the business
(technology, trading, sales).
Continuity Solutions, Inc., La Jolla, CA
Account Manager/Recruiter (March 2013 - Sept 2014)
• Recruited for the IT industry and selling disaster recovery and business continuity models and total IT solutions to businesses across the country.
• Placed highly skilled IT professionals with various companies and industries and developing a pipeline of businesses HR departments and contractual employees.
• Solicited and actively pursued accounts as a vendor for a wide array of businesses and industries. Wells Fargo Advisors, New York, NY
Registered Client Associate (Nov 2012 - Mar 2013)
• Assisted in bringing over two financial advisors book of businesses from competing firms while resolving many clients concerns during ACAT process.
• Supported those advisors in building and maintaining client relationships by assisting them and their clients with the ongoing financial planning process.
• Coordinated advisors schedules with clients for preparing and engaging in financial planning meetings.
• Supported operational procedures and compliance requirements.
• Assisted and resolving clients’ inquiries regarding trades and transactional details on their accounts. Merrill Lynch, Great Neck, NY
Financial Advisor (Jan 2011 - March 2012)
• Analyzed current and projected economic trends and implemented specific asset allocations based on Merrill’s research library.
• Helped clients make appropriate investment decisions through the financial planning process with our managed accounts group, retirement specialists, trust and estate teams, and my own knowledge and experience.
• Made equity, options fixed income, and tax-advantaged investments recommendations for retail, business, and institutional clients.
• Hit all my sales hurdles through the first year of the program and received a $5000.00 bonus for my work.
• Deepened relationships with my natural market and existing clients and constantly prospected for new business.
• Received referrals from clients who viewed me as a trusted advisor and educated and helped those referrals understand the benefits of working with a trusted advisor.
• Brought in 10 million under management within the first year of sales program. Merrill Lynch, Great Neck, NY
Registered Client Associate (May 2008 - Dec 2010)
• Provided phone support for a large number of financial advisors in the branch office and provided sales support for financial advisors and general client support.
• Provided solutions and understanding to client inquiries regarding account balances, statements, quotes, account activity, securities, and wire transfers, etc.
• Processed new accounts and initiated ASAP requests on Merrill’s Legacy system in order to satisfy clients requests.
• Sent out client portfolio review statements that had been designed by each individual financial advisor
(and sometimes custom for specific clients) whose businesses I supported
• Handled trades and trade corrections with special attention to resolving when needed to be done in timely fashion before market moved and the FA or branch could lose money.
• Worked closely with several transition management teams in order to speed up ACAT process for a number of financial advisors who brought their books to Merrill in the middle of the financial crisis.
• Received “Star Award” for exceptional client service. New England Financial (MetLife Co.), Uniondale, NY Financial Services Representative (Jan 2008 - April 2008)
• Developed my natural market through friends, family, colleagues, and various associations to engage known-contacts in the financial planning process.
• Obtained securities and insurance licenses.
• Retained business that was already on the books with New England and managed current clients’ insurance and investment needs, while at same time prospected for new business.
• Cold called business owners and met with clients and prospects to win new business and discuss certain specific insurance and investment needs: (group medical, life, disability, annuities, mutual funds, 401k’s).
• Met with clients and prospects to offer various insurance products and review investment portfolios. Gathered assets and put together customized financial plans. Curran Cooney Penny Insurance Agency, Roslyn, NY
Executive Assistant/ Marketing Coordinator (Aug 2006 - Oct 2007)
• Started a very successful mailing and telephone marketing campaign based on property research for brownstones in Brooklyn in order to win their building insurance business with a very competitive rate through Harleysville Insurance Co.
• Cold-called building owners and business owners for new business (warm leads that had already received our targeted marketing material) and met with clients and prospects to discuss certain specific insurance needs: (group medical, life, disability, building, and commercial insurance).
• Corresponded with clients and insurance carriers regarding claims and coverage and at same time, always trying to deepen client relationships by cross selling a broad range of insurance products.
• Calendar management for head producer and coordinating schedules for him and I in order to set appointments and meet with clients to discuss insurance protection and win new business. Licensing
California Life, Accident, Health Insurance License Series 7, Series 63, and Series 65 Securities Licenses Education
Stony Brook University B.A. Dec. 2005
Major: Music and Art History Minor: Anthropology
American Red Cross Lifeguarding/First Aid/CPR/AED Certified Computer Skills:
• Word * PowerPoint * Adobe Photoshop * Excel * Outlook * Premiere * Access * Bloomberg terminal* Thomson ONE Wealth Management Workstation
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