The growth in NAPA membership this year has been simply astounding. Since Jan. 1 we’ve grown to nearly 6,000 members — a year-to-date increase of 50%. The lion’s share of this growth has come through our new Firm Partners — so far this year, more than 30 firms have signed on. This means that halfway through the year, our roster of Firm Partners has grown by about one-third, to just shy of 100.
These firms get it. They understand the importance of NAPA’s role as the voice of the advisor in Washington, as well as professional education and the other ways NAPA serves our members. They also rightly view NAPA as an efficient way to get information about their products and services in front of plan advisors — for example, via our upcoming “Partner Corner” section on NAPA Net.
Below are lists of the product providers — the record keepers and DCIOs — who are supporting your association, supporting you and your practice, and contributing in a critically important way to the best interests of our industry. The Firm Partners that have joined NAPA since January appear in italics.
Record Keepers
American Funds
Charles Schwab
CPI Qualified Plan Consultants
DailyAccess
Fidelity Investments
Great-West Financial
ING Retirement Services
John Hancock Retirement Plan Services
JP Morgan
MassMutual Retirement Services
OneAmerica
Putnam Investments
Transamerica Retirement Solutions
T. Rowe Price
DCIOs
Allianz Global Investors Distributors
American Century Investments
American Funds
BlackRock
Eaton Vance
Federated Investors
Fidelity Investments
Franklin Templeton
ING Funds
John Hancock Funds
JP Morgan
Legg Mason
MFS Investment Management Company
OppenheimerFunds
PIMCO
Putnam Investments
RidgeWorth Investments
T. Rowe Price
Thornburg Investment Management
Transamerica Funds
To each of you, thank you for your support. Of course, thanks also to the rest of NAPA’s nearly 100 Firm Partners, be they broker-dealers, RIAs or others.
One more thing. If you’re a product provider and you’re not on either of these lists, I have a question for you: Why are you choosing to be left out?
