Glenview, IL Office

Allworth Financial serves a wide range of clients — including individual and high‑net‑worth investors, pension and profit‑sharing plans, trusts, corporations and charitable organizations — and offers financial and wealth planning, discretionary and non‑discretionary portfolio management, qualified retirement plan consulting, and variable annuity sub‑account servicing. The firm also manages privately offered funds and provides education through newsletters, podcasts and seminars.

The firm combines quantitative and qualitative analysis through an Investment Committee to implement customized allocations across equities, fixed income, ETFs, mutual funds, options overlays and privately offered investments, and offers a mix of model strategies (Core‑Satellite, Pure Index, buffered equity ETFs) and specialist portfolios (e.g., ESG, Christian Values, IntelliBuilD, Outlier Growth). Allworth may delegate management to third‑party advisers, runs both wrap and non‑wrap programs, and uses technology such as Pontera to monitor and rebalance held‑away retirement accounts as part of a holistic planning approach.

Distinctive features called out in the brochure include a practice of retaining acquired advisors under former trade names during transition periods and disclosing predecessor performance related to acquisitions, the firm’s airline‑industry practice (Allworth Airline Advisors), and operation of private Shorepoint funds that pay a performance‑based incentive allocation and have $250,000 minimums. The brochure also documents close affiliations with an affiliated broker‑dealer (AW Securities) and an affiliated tax/accounting practice, and describes multiple solicitation and referral arrangements (including participation in third‑party referral programs), all of which create identifiable conflicts that the firm says it manages through policies and disclosures.