Abdur Akram Leaves BancWest to Join Royal Alliance Through NWF Advisory in Encino, California

ENCINO, CA — Winthrop & Co. is proud to formally announce that Abdur Akram has joined Royal Alliance, affiliating through NWF Advisory Group in Encino, one of the largest and most established advisor groups on the Royal Alliance platform.

Abdur brings roughly two decades of experience to the move. He spent more than five years at BancWest Investment Services in Encino, and before that built his career at Citigroup in the San Fernando Valley, serving families and business owners across the region. His move to Royal Alliance gives that practice an independent structure: ownership of the client relationships, open-architecture investments, and the support of an established local advisory group behind him.

The structure he chose reflects a path many bank-channel advisors take: full ownership of the practice, with the infrastructure, compliance support, and scale of an established group providing the supporting layer. NWF Advisory Group provides that foundation locally while Royal Alliance, part of Advisor Group, one of the nation's largest networks of independent advisors, provides the platform underneath it.

Winthrop & Co. worked with Abdur through his evaluation and transition, from the initial confidential conversation through his first day. As with every placement, the process was run quietly, on his timeline, and at no cost to him.

Winthrop & Co. is an independent consulting and advisor placement firm serving financial advisors nationwide. We represent the advisor, never the firm, across wirehouse, regional, independent broker-dealer, and RIA channels. Advisors exploring their options can request an introduction in complete confidence.