Interactions with other members can be as valuable to SFI Business Network representatives as the intellectual topics they tackle at Network events, according to Chris Arthur, head of portfolio strategy at LPL Financial.
“Membership increases the network of people we communicate with, and has been phenomenally valuable,” he says.
LPL, the largest network of independent - financial advisors in the United States, prides itself on its entrepreneurial spirit and on unbiased investment advice. The company joined the Business Network in January 2011 as an exploratory member.
“We had always admired the Institute for their differentiated thinking and for focusing on complex adaptive systems, and our relationship offers us a perspective our competitors just don’t have,” Arthur says. “But the most gratifying aspect of membership for us has been the engagements.”