Altamont, NY Office

A.G.P. / Alliance Global Partners is an SEC-registered investment adviser and FINRA-member broker-dealer operating a multi-team platform of about 131 advisors managing roughly $2.95 billion for more than 7,000 clients. The firm provides portfolio management, financial planning (including estate-planning access via a partnership with Trust & Will), retirement-plan advisory, sub‑advisory and third‑party money manager programs, and brokerage and insurance product sales through its broker‑dealer and insurance‑licensed personnel.

The firm uses an open‑architecture model that combines internally managed strategies—most prominently the EPC division’s international equity SMAs—with co‑ and sub‑advisory relationships (EPAM serves as a material sub‑adviser), model/wrap programs, and separately managed accounts; its investment work draws on top‑down macro and bottom‑up security selection, value and dividend‑oriented international approaches, and both discretionary and non‑discretionary mandates. A.G.P. also accommodates private placements and pooled vehicle investments, administers wrap programs, and generally bills advisory services as a percentage of assets while charging hourly fees for some financial planning and flat fees for certain estate‑planning assistance.

Distinctive operational features relative to many multi‑team peers include the firm’s ongoing broker‑dealer activities alongside advisory services, its role as placement agent and adviser to pooled and private funds (for example, GP Advisor Fund and an affiliated private fund managed by a related entity), and explicit disclosures of regulatory and disciplinary matters in its brochure, including recent SEC‑ and other regulator‑related actions. The firm’s reliance on AUM‑based billing rather than fixed fees, its fee‑sharing with sub‑advisers, and its stated custodial arrangements with National Financial Services/Fidelity‑related platforms and RBC are additional characteristics that differentiate it from many peers.