Mount Shasta, CA Office

Mariner Independent (Mariner Platform Solutions) serves individuals (including high‑net‑worth clients) as well as pension and profit‑sharing plans, trusts, estates, charitable organizations and business entities. Through a network of 119 investment adviser representatives, the firm provides financial planning, portfolio management, retirement plan consulting, coordinated tax support, insurance solutions and access to alternative investments.

IARs work with clients using firm‑built model portfolios supported by in‑house resources and third‑party managers, or by creating customized discretionary portfolios they manage directly. The firm implements a broad set of investment tools — mutual funds, ETFs, individual equities and fixed income, plus options, structured notes, direct indexing, digital assets and allocations to alternative and commodity strategies via platforms such as SEI, AssetMark and CAIS.

What distinguishes Mariner from many multi‑team advisers is its range of affiliated businesses: it is linked with a state‑chartered trust company (Mariner Trust Company) and an institutional pension consulting affiliate (Mariner Institutional) and offers a Pathway DC solution that can include 3(38) fiduciary support. These affiliations and its use of affiliated and third‑party managers give clients integrated access to custody, retirement plan consulting and alternative/commodity channels; the firm discloses and monitors the resulting conflicts of interest in its brochure.