Concurrent Funding Advisors, a Tampa-based hybrid RIA with $9.7 billion in belongings that was previously an workplace of supervisory jurisdiction underneath Raymond James, has employed David Montgomery as managing director of retirement plan providers. Montgomery joins from OneDigital, the place he served as director of retirement funding providers.
Montgomery joined OneDigital in 2020 as vice chairman of retirement providers after the corporate acquired Fidelis Fiduciary Administration, an outsourced funding fiduciary agency that he co-founded.
Within the new function, he’ll be accountable for supporting Concurrent’s retirement plan advisors and increasing the agency’s assets within the area. The RIA at the moment has about 325 retirement plan purchasers.
“Our devoted retirement division additional advances Concurrent’s assist of advisors, unifying all our choices in a considerate method for the advantage of the advisors and their purchasers,” Eddy Augsten, managing director of investments at Concurrent, mentioned in a press release. “David’s expansive experience in outsourced investments can be key to fulfilling our aim of providing advisors intentional assist to develop their practices and strengthen their consumer relationships.”
The rent is a component of a bigger initiative at Concurrent to construct out its retirement plan division. That can probably contain acquisitions within the retirement plan area, and integrating the RIA’s Centralized Wealth Advisory Options. The agency additionally expects to develop its asset administration merchandise to deal with the wants of plan individuals.
Advisors and purchasers may have entry to the TIFIN @Work platform, which was launched earlier this yr in partnership with Franklin Templeton. The platform is meant to assist worker plan individuals assess their office profit plan choices and obtain automated funding recommendation on contributions and allocations.
This follows information earlier this month that Concurrent added six new advisors with a mixed AUM of $885 million.
Concurrent was established in 2017 as a know-how and providers platform for unbiased monetary advisors. Its CEO, Nate Lenz, a former vice chairman of succession planning and acquisitions at Raymond James Monetary Companies, co-founded the agency.
Service provider Funding Administration, a New York-based personal partnership that gives development capital and different assist to unbiased monetary providers corporations, took a minority, non-controlling curiosity within the agency in 2021.
Final yr, Concurrent efficiently restructured as a multicustodial, hybrid RIA platform after dropping its affiliation with Raymond James. It chosen Constancy as its first custodian, and Practifi, SmartX and BlackDiamond are core parts of its know-how platform. It has maintained a dealer/vendor relationship with PKS Investments.
Montgomery’s departure from OneDigital follows that of fellow government Jania Stout, who left earlier this yr for Prime Capital as president of its retirement plan consulting enterprise and monetary wellness firm. Stout got here to OneDigital in 2021, when the agency acquired the belongings of Fiduciary Plan Advisors, which she based in 2014