FAs, fundsters, and other industry insiders are converging on Southern California this weekend for
LPL's 27th annual
Focus conference. The giant independent broker-dealer's team expects more than 6,000 attendees, including 3,500 advisors and their staff, more than 1,000 sponsors, plus LPL home office staff and guests.
| Mark Casady
LPL Financial Chairman & Chief Executive Officer | |
Boston- and San Diego-based LPL has brought Focus back to San Diego for 2016, to the San Diego Convention Center. (
Last year Focus was in Boston.) Pre-conference workshops and the "Focus on Women Advisors Forum" will start Monday morning, and the full conference welcome reception and concert (featuring
Gavin DeGraw) is scheduled for Sunday night.
Featured speakers scheduled to appear at Focus 2016 include: political commentators
Paul Begala and
Tucker Carlson; actor
Will Smith, interviewed by TV journalist
Lisa Hughes; and former Facebook marketer
Randi Zuckerberg.
Big sponsors of Focus this year include:
AB [
profile],
AIG,
Allianz,
Axa,
BlackRock [
profile],
Columbia Threadneedle [
profile],
Global Atlantic Financial Group,
Hartford Funds [
profile],
Invesco [
profile],
John Hancock Investments [
profile],
J.P. Morgan Asset Management [
profile],
Jackson,
Legg Mason [
profile],
Lincoln Financial Distributors,
MetLife,
MFS [
profile],
Nationwide [
profile],
Natixis [
profile],
OppenheimerFunds [
profile],
Pacific Life,
Pru [
profile],
Putnam [
profile], and
Transamerica [
profile]. 
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