Holmes Beach, FL Office

Janney Montgomery Scott LLC is a large, dually registered broker-dealer and SEC-registered investment adviser that manages roughly $110 billion in discretionary and non-discretionary client assets. The firm serves a broad client base — individuals (including high-net-worth clients), families, trusts and estates, corporate and retirement plan sponsors, charitable organizations and municipal clients — and offers brokerage services, financial planning, consulting, and multiple wrap/advisory programs.

The firm delivers investment advice through a mix of in‑house portfolio management and third‑party managers across eleven wrap programs, a unified managed account (UMA) overlay, and model portfolios; Janney Capital Management was integrated into the firm in 2026 to centralize professional asset management. It also operates a centralized Janney Client Service Center that provides limited, call‑center based advisory service and employs formal due‑diligence and monitoring processes for managers and pooled products.

Janney’s structure includes a New Hampshire‑chartered subsidiary trust company and it acts as a custodian for certain IRA, Coverdell, and qualified retirement assets — capabilities that are uncommon among large enterprise advisers and that support custody and trustee services in‑house. The firm is also registered as a municipal advisor (and is affiliated with a municipal advisor), continues to operate brokerage businesses that can involve commissions and “step‑out” trade execution, and discloses related conflicts and mitigation policies tied to affiliated ownership and third‑party relationships.