Before changing their affiliation to Ameriprise, the advisor team that includes John Lupi, Richard Karpinski and J Richard Hernandez was with Wells Fargo’s independent brokerage arm, Financial Network for almost nine years.

The three advisors have collectively approximately 90 years of experience.

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Lupi was formerly at Merrill Lynch before joining UBS and then ultimately Wells Fargo. Kapinski joined Wells Fargo by way of Wachovia where he was with the private client group. And Hernandez was at Morgan Stanley before moving to Wachovia and transitioning into Wells Fargo.

Further, ever since the team had affiliated in 2003, they had practiced under the LLC name Client First Financial and have recently managed as much as US$120 million among 700 relationships.

Additionally, Ameriprise has also picked up the team of James Marchesi and Associates from Mill Ridge Wealth Management, where they had managed more than US$115 million in assets.

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