Connecticut-based NewEdge Wealth, a registered funding adviser (RIA), has employed its first monetary advisor in Arkansas.
Hunter Gehring of Bentonville, who beforehand labored for Arvest Wealth Administration (AWM) in Lowell, formally began with NewEdge Wealth this month as a principal. He managed $600 million in shopper belongings at AWM, the wealth administration division owned by the Walton family-owned Arvest Financial institution of Fayetteville.
In a information launch, NewEdge Wealth stated Gehring would advance the agency’s belongings beneath administration and construct relationships with ultra-high web value purchasers. Jennifer Powell additionally joins NewEdge Welath as a shopper service affiliate within the Bentonville workplace.
NewEdge Wealth’s Northwest Arkansas workplace is on the sixth flooring of the Bentonville Plaza workplace constructing at 609 S.W. 8th St.
“Hunter has achieved a lot in his early profession,” stated Rob Sechan, CEO and co-founder of NewEdge Wealth. “We’re impressed along with his skillset and dedication to shopper service. Hunter might be an advisor to look at, and we’re glad his continued development might be spotlighted at NewEdge.”
In line with the discharge, Gehring was AWM’s youngest personal wealth advisor within the firm’s historical past and held all manufacturing information upon his departure. He was a shopper advisor for the corporate since 2017.
In 2021, the Northwest Arkansas Enterprise Journal named Gehring to its Quick 15 class.
“I’m honored to be part of the keenness at NewEdge Wealth,” Gehring stated. “I’ve lastly discovered a accomplice that may present the sources, analysis, and know-how that ultra-high web value purchasers deserve. I’m keen to point out the Arkansas neighborhood what a brand new edge in wealth administration seems to be like.”
NewEdge Wealth is a division of NewEdge Capital Group, which providers over $32 billion in shopper belongings throughout a number of enterprise strains and helps over 300 monetary advisors servicing a number of thousand households, household places of work and establishments comprising greater than 75,000 shopper accounts.
NewEdge Wealth has further places of work in Coral Gables, Fla., Miami, Fla., Manhattan Seaside, Calif., Park Metropolis, Utah, Pittsburgh, Penn., and Stamford, Conn.
