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Our History
Business
partners, Roland Brecek & Hal Young, began in the financial services field
as moonlighting educators. We worked, naturally, with 403(b)s and made
substantially more money in our part-time jobs than we did in education.
Eventually, we went full-time into financial services.
Brecek & Young began life as another financial firm's largest office
of supervisory jurisdiction (OSJ) in the U.S. In 1996, through a contractual
arrangement, the office formed its own Broker-Dealer and started out with 75
Advisors. We've grown substantially since.
Our acquisition of a securities firm in Cincinnati in March 2001 helped us gain
key market niches. There was also an inherited "orientation toward working with
tax professionals." The two cultures have come together well, paving the way
for future growth.
There are three reasons, Roland says, why people leave their old Broker-Dealers
and come to Brecek & Young. The first is "an unfriendly
compliance department." Second is Advisors' business that is not processed
correctly at their current firms, and the third is not getting paid
correctly. At Brecek & Young we feel we do everything correctly and we
have a friendlier approach. From a friendlier atmosphere, to e-mail
confirmations of transactions, to paying Advisors correctly, Brecek & Young
takes whatever steps it can to make sure that its Advisors stay
content. "I think that if you treat Advisors correctly and fairly," says
Roland, "they won't want to leave." And that's why we've won the
Broker-Dealer of the Year award five times - 1999, 2000, 2001, 2005 and
just recently again for 2007. |