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Start with a short conversation about your practice or your plans, your registrations, and your timing. If it's a fit both ways, you get a written plan: a transition plan with a target date if you're moving a practice, or a start plan with exam sponsorship and training if you're building one. Advisors affiliate with Parsonex Securities, Inc. (broker-dealer, Member FINRA/SIPC), Parsonex Advisory Services, Inc. (SEC-registered investment adviser), or both, and work on a platform the firm builds in-house.

Parsonex builds its own advisor technology. Custodian data imports and reconciles daily, carrier and commission feeds arrive automatically, compliance and records retention run through firm systems, and your clients get a secure portal from day one. Because the engineers work at the firm, the platform changes when advisors need it to, and AI goes where it saves you time.

Yes. You can begin part-time and keep your current career while you build. The registrations, supervision, platform, and support are the same as for any other affiliated advisor. Expect a direct conversation about the time it takes to build a practice.

Yes. If you're not yet registered or early in your career, the firm sponsors your exams, provides free preparation on advisortrain.com, trains you on products, suitability, and procedures, and walks you through your first client. You also join a community of advisors, from people who were in your shoes not long ago to seasoned pros, who are glad to share what works.

It depends on the business you'll do. Securities business requires representative-level registration with Parsonex Securities, Inc. Advisory business requires registration as an investment adviser representative of Parsonex Advisory Services, Inc. If you're not registered yet, the firm can sponsor the exams. Your exact requirements are confirmed in the fit review.

Licensing has real costs: exam fees, registration fees, and study time, and they vary by state and by the licenses your business needs. Your specific costs are laid out in your first conversation, before you commit to anything.

Clients decide who advises them. The firm provides a structured transition: a written plan, the transfer paperwork, and home-office tracking of every account. Whether and how you may contact clients after you resign depends on your current agreements and applicable law, which you should review with your own counsel.

It depends on the number of accounts, the custodians involved, and how quickly clients return paperwork. Your transition plan sets a target date and sequences the accounts, and the home office tracks each transfer to settlement.

Not automatically. Disclosure history is reviewed in the fit review, and the outcome depends on the specifics, though some events, such as a statutory disqualification, can prevent registration. Raise anything early. It's far easier to address up front.

Succession is part of the affiliation conversation, not an afterthought. Options depend on your practice and are discussed individually. Nothing about a future purchase, price, or valuation is offered or promised here.

One platform built by the firm's own engineers: a dashboard with your accounts, positions, commissions, and client records; custodian data that reconciles daily; carrier and commission feeds imported automatically; secure messaging and meetings that meet recordkeeping rules; a client portal for statements, documents, and messages; and a forms library kept current by the home office.

Yes. The firm has developed powerful AI tools on leading AI models and builds them into the platform. It already checks your marketing against the advertising rules before compliance review, and it is being built into more of the routine work between you and your clients. New AI tools reach advisors after they pass the firm's review.

No. No one pushes you to sell the firm's own products. Your recommendations come from what fits each client.

Pay depends on your affiliation model, business mix, and role, and is reviewed individually instead of published. Raise it in your first conversation and you'll get a full answer.

Most advisors affiliate as independent contractors (1099): you run your own practice, with firm supervision, compliance, and platform access.

You may only do business with residents of states where you're properly registered. The firm's registrations are confirmed in the fit review. If your clients are in a state where the firm isn't registered yet, that's part of the transition conversation, not an automatic barrier.