This award was issued on 07/01/2025 by Five Star Professional (FSP) for the time period 10/30/2024 through 05/01/2025. Fee paid for use of marketing materials. Self-completed questionnaire was used for rating. This rating is not related to the quality of the investment advice and based solely on the disclosed criteria. 3571 Houston-area wealth managers were considered for the award; 195 (5 % of candidates) were named 2025 Five Star Wealth Managers. The following prior year statistics use this format: YEAR: # Considered, # Winners, % of candidates, Issued Date, Research Period. 2024: 3,270, 208, 6%, 7/1/24, 10/10/23 - 4/30/24; 2023: 3,347, 179, 5.3%, 7/1/23, 10/10/22 - 5/5/23; 2022: 3215, 176, 5%, 7/1/22, 9/20/21 - 4/8/22; 2021: 3133, 173, 6%, 7/1/21, 9/14/20 - 4/30/21; 2020: 3219, 174, 5%, 7/1/20, 9/30/19 - 4/17/20; 2019: 2992, 209, 7%, 7/1/19, 10/15/18 - 4/26/19; 2018: 3114, 218, 7%, 7/1/18, 10/27/17 - 5/21/18; 2017: 2000, 228, 11%, 7/1/17, 10/24/16 - 5/24/17; 2016: 1763, 437, 25%, 6/1/16, 10/16/15 - 5/16/16; 2015: 2289, 408, 18%, 7/1/15, 10/16/14 - 5/16/15; 2014: 3958, 410, 10%, 7/1/14, 10/16/13 - 5/16/14; 2013: 3001, 504, 17%, 8/1/13, 10/16/12 - 5/16/13; 2012: 2105, 425, 20%, 7/1/12, 10/16/11 - 5/16/12.
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Benzinga Award - To determine the top financial advisors by state, we poured through all SEC-registered advisory firms. We winnowed the list by only including advisors that are registered fiduciaries, have no past disclosures and have minimal personal conflicts of interest. To further break down the list to the true top advisors in the area, we gave weight to advisors that offer both investment management and planning, have no conflicts of interest, have offices in multiple states, have a wrap fee program and over $50 million in assets under management.
Newsweek America’s Top Financial Advisory Firms for 2025:
Methodology:
Plant-A by shortlists firms with more than $20 million assets under management (AUM), a minimum of three wealth advisors(1), at least five individual clients,and at least two years of SEC registration. Firms were also screened for clean disciplinary records andavailability of portfolio management services to individual investors. These shortlisted firms were then analyzed and scored based on the following factors:
They calculate a score for each firm with the maximum being 100. The top 750 Financial Advisory Firms have been recognized as America’s Top Financial Advisory Firms 2025. The performance of firms not included in the ranking is not disputed.
Asset Performance: Growth in assets under management indicates both financial performance and the health of a firm’s client base, the cornerstones of advisory excellence. We include both short-term (Sept 2024 vs Sept 2023)and long-term (CAGR Sept 2019 to Sept 2024) measures of asset growth in our scoring model.
Client Performance: Great advisories retain their clients and attract new ones. We again include both short and long-term measures of client base growth/shrinkage for short term (Sept 2024 vs Sept 2023) and long term (CAGR Sept 2019 to Sept 2024).
Adviser Expertise and Client Ratio: We include measures that capture the credentialed expertise of each firm as well as their client-to-adviser ratio.
Breadth of service offerings: Great firms offer a bundle of related services for their investors. We considered the number of other wealth advisory services in our scoring model, such as financial planning services and pension consulting services.
Conflicts of interests: The best advisories work to prevent conflicts of interest; firms with conflicts of interests are penalized in the scoring model.
They calculate a score for each firm with the maximum being 100. The top 750 Financial Advisory Firms have been recognized as America’s Top Financial Advisory Firms 2025. The performance of firms not included in the ranking is not disputed.
USA Today:
USA Today and Statista chose winners based on peer and client recommendations as well as asset management over a five-year period. Recommendations were collected via an independent survey. While clients were able to evaluate and recommend their RIA firm, financial advisors working for an RIA firm were asked to consider a scenario where their own firm could not take on a client and had to recommend another RIA firm. AUM growth was analyzed over 12-month and 5-year periods based on publicly available data, as of January 2023. Recommendations had a weight of 20%, while AUM growth had a weight of 80% to derive the final score. Firms registered with the SEC, having a clean disciplinary record and the highest overall scores were named Best Financial Advisory Firms.
Wealth managers do not pay a fee to be considered or placed on the final list of Five Star Wealth Managers. The award is based on 10 objective criteria. Eligibility criteria - required: 1. Credentialed as a registered investment adviser (RIA) or a registered investment adviser representative; 2. Actively licensed as a RIA or as a principal of a registered investment adviser firm for a minimum of 5 years; 3. Favorable regulatory and complaint history review (As defined by FSP, the wealth manager has not; A. Been subject to a regulatory action that resulted in a license being suspended or revoked, or payment of a fine; B. Had more than a total of three settled or pending complaints filed against them and/or a total of five settled, pending, dismissed or denied complaints with any regulatory authority or FSP's consumer complaint process. Unfavorable feedback may have been discovered through a check of complaints registered with a regulatory authority or complaints registered through FSP's consumer complaint process; feedback may not be representative of any one client's experience; C. Individually contributed to a financial settlement of a customer complaint; D. Filed for personal bankruptcy within the past 11 years; E. Been terminated from a financial services firm within the past 11 years; F. Been convicted of a felony); 4. Fulfilled their firm review based on internal standards; 5. Accepting new clients. Evaluation criteria - considered: 6. One-year client retention rate; 7. Five-year client retention rate; 8. Non-institutional discretionary and/or non-discretionary client assets administered; 9. Number of client households served; 10. Education and professional designations. FSP does not evaluate quality of services provided to clients. The award is not indicative of the wealth manager's future performance. Wealth managers may or may not use discretion in their practice and therefore may not manage their clients' assets. The inclusion of a wealth manager on the Five Star Wealth Manager list should not be construed as an endorsement of the wealth manager by FSP or this publication. Working with a Five Star Wealth Manager or any wealth manager is no guarantee as to future investment success, nor is there any guarantee that the selected wealth managers will be awarded this accomplishment by FSP in the future. Visit www.fivestarprofessional.com.
