Aspen, CO Office

Ashton Thomas Securities is a registered investment adviser and long‑standing broker‑dealer that provides discretionary and non‑discretionary investment management, financial planning, and retirement plan consulting to individuals, business entities, trusts, estates and charitable organizations. The firm manages roughly $1.86 billion for about 2,281 clients through a team of 18 advisors operating across six offices and routinely serves individual (non‑high‑net‑worth) clients alongside plan sponsor relationships.

The firm offers multiple program structures — including wrap and non‑wrap offerings, model portfolios, managed ETF and Morningstar sub‑advised options, and separately managed account programs — and can allocate to unaffiliated independent managers or third‑party sub‑advisers (for example, Altrium for fixed income). Ashton Thomas also provides retirement plan ERISA fiduciary services, ongoing account monitoring and rebalancing, and operates a platform that delivers back‑office, trading and model access to other advisers while retaining responsibility for client suitability and oversight.

What is distinctive about Ashton Thomas relative to many team firms is its integrated broker‑dealer role and related affiliations: it has been a FINRA‑regulated broker‑dealer since 1985 and acts as broker‑dealer of record for advisory program accounts, sponsors the Amplify Platform, and shares common ownership/affiliations with other entities (including an affiliated registered adviser and an insurance agency used for client insurance implementation). Those organizational ties, along with the firm’s use of wrap programs and required platform services for its representatives, create operational and potential conflict considerations that clients should review when comparing it to peers.