Integrity Enhances Mission to Protect Health and Wealth of
Americans by Partnering with WealthFirm
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Synergistic partnership brings WealthFirm’s extensive wealth
management and retirement planning expertise to Integrity’s innovative
insurance distribution platform
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DALLAS –
SEPTEMBER 28, 2021 – Integrity
Marketing Group, LLC (“Integrity”), the nation’s largest independent
distributor of life and health insurance products, today announced it has
acquired WealthFirm,
a wealth management and retirement planning firm headquartered in
Nebraska. As part of the acquisition, Nancy Brozek and Jared Faltys,
Co-CEOs of WealthFirm, will become Managing Partners in Integrity.
Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
WealthFirm began as a
CPA firm in 1948 serving clients in the Midwest. Building on decades of
relationships and trust, many clients began turning to their WealthFirm
advisors for advice on financial decisions such as wealth management,
estate planning and retirement options. In 1997, WealthFirm created
Wealth Management LLC, a registered investment advisor (“RIA”), to give
their advisors the systems and support to provide clients complete
financial well-being solutions. The company then added Retirement Plan
Consultants LLC, an advisory resource to help clients create a
financially secure retirement in 2008. Today, WealthFirm serves clients
through advisors across the United States with almost $3.5 billion in
assets under administration across the two entities.
“As Americans age, we
believe two of their greatest concerns are their health and their
wealth,” explained Bryan W. Adams, Co-Founder and CEO of Integrity
Marketing Group. “WealthFirm has earned an incredible reputation for
being a service-oriented business. By coming alongside them as a partner,
Integrity will give them more resources, technology and tools to better
serve their advisors and help more Americans. Integrity is committed to
innovating for our clients. By adding the wealth management and retirement
solution offerings of WealthFirm, we are fulfilling that mission better
than ever.”
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“Americans look to their
trusted advisors to help create solutions when making some of life’s
biggest decisions,” said Jared Faltys, Co-CEO of WealthFirm. “By
combining our expertise and relationships with Integrity’s end-to-end
platform, we can help more people feel secure about the future of their
finances and healthcare. At WealthFirm, we’ve always tried to stay ahead
of the industry and we immediately recognized that Integrity brings that same
commitment to insurance. We’ve created a synergistic partnership that
will help countless more Americans today — and benefit them for
generations to come.”
Adding WealthFirm’s
capabilities to Integrity’s fast-growing partner network illustrates Integrity’s
innovation and leadership across every aspect of insurance. Integrity’s
prestigious network of legends and trailblazers includes companies such
as CSG
Actuarial, ThomasARTS,
Deft
Research, Access
Capital, Brokers
International and Insurance
Administrative Solutions’ third-party administrator, as well
as leading call centers Connexion
Point, SeniorCare
Benefits and Unified
Health.
“The best partnerships
benefit everyone, while building something stronger together,” said Nancy
Brozek, Co-CEO of WealthFirm. “By uniting our companies’ strengths,
WealthFirm offers Integrity agents the opportunity to dramatically
increase their offerings beyond insurance. Our advisors benefit from
Integrity’s world-class marketing resources and innovative technology
available only to partners. Together, we’re poised for enormous growth
and we’re excited to open this new direction together.”
WealthFirm will enhance
its existing processes by utilizing Integrity’s comprehensive technology
platform, with resources such as product development, data and analytics,
and a leading advertising and marketing firm. The partnership also offers
WealthFirm the opportunity to centralize business functions through
Integrity’s shared services, including IT, human resources, legal,
compliance, accounting as well as technology and innovation.
In addition, WealthFirm
employees now gain meaningful company ownership through Integrity’s
Employee Ownership Plan.
“At Integrity, we’re all
about relationships,” shared Steve Young, Board Chairman of Integrity.
“This partnership allows us to provide better support to WealthFirm’s
advisors, while also helping Integrity agents to strengthen the product
offerings they can provide clients. Additionally, this partnership will
greatly benefit WealthFirm employees. Giving employees meaningful
ownership in Integrity through the Employee Ownership Plan shows
Integrity’s investment in their strongest resource — their people.”
For more information
about WealthFirm’s decision to partner with Integrity, view a video at www.integritymarketing.com/WealthFirm.
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About
Integrity Marketing Group
Integrity Marketing
Group, headquartered in Dallas, Texas, is the leading independent
distributor of life and health insurance products focused on meeting
Americans wherever they are — in person, over the phone and online.
Integrity is innovating insurance by developing cutting-edge technology
designed to simplify and streamline the healthcare experience for
everyone. In addition, Integrity develops exclusive products with
insurance carrier partners and markets these products through its
distribution network that includes other large insurance agencies
throughout the country. Integrity’s almost 5,500 employees work with over
420,000 independent agents who service more than nine million clients
annually. In 2021, Integrity expects to help insurance carriers place
over $7 billion in new sales. For more information, visit www.integritymarketing.com.
About
WealthFirm
WealthFirm is a family
of financial experts headquartered in Norfolk, Nebraska. WealthFirm is
the combination of Wealth Management LLC (“WM”) and Retirement Plan
Consultants LLC (“RPC”). Each brand of the family is dedicated to
improving efficiency, simplicity and effectiveness of financial solutions
for businesses, individuals and their families. WM partners with
professionals nationwide, empowering them to offer financial guidance to
their clients. They believe in low cost, full fee disclosure and
maintaining global diversification. WM operates as a partner, assisting
professionals to become advisors with one-on-one coaching and by
assisting with the back-office and compliance issues so they can remain focused
on their relationship with their clients. RPC focuses on simplifying the
retirement plan experience by offering customized, people-focused plan
solutions. They provide back-office services, including access to
custodians, reporting and analytics, trade support, asset allocation and
rebalancing. RPC currently serves over 1,800 plans and 17,500
participants. The WealthFirm family is devoted to treating everyone they
work with like family. For more information, visit www.wealthfirm.info.
Media
Contact:
Rachel Aird, Public Relations Director
ThomasARTS
press@thomasarts.com
801-706-7005
Partnership
Inquiries:
Eric Pederson, Vice President of Business
Development
Integrity Marketing
Group
partnership@integritymarketing.com
866-650-1857
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