FIVE STAR: Best in Client Satisfaction Wealth Managers(SM) Announced: New Jersey Financial Advisor Ranked in Top Two Percent for Client Approval
Metro Duda, JR., CFP , ChFC , CLTC, a long-time financial professional and vice president of Financial Focus, LLC, has been named to the 2011 FIVE STAR: Best in Client Satisfaction Wealth Managers(SM) list for the state of New Jersey

LIVINGSTON, NJ, March 07, 2011 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Metro Duda, JR., CFP , ChFC , CLTC, a long-time financial professional and vice president of Financial Focus, LLC, has been named to the 2011 FIVE STAR: Best in Client Satisfaction Wealth Managers(SM) list for the state of New Jersey.

New Jersey Monthly formed a partnership with Crescendo Business Services, an independent research firm, to identify the "best in client satisfaction" wealth managers serving the New Jersey area. Crescendo surveyed, by mail and phone, 235,000 high-net-worth residents in the New Jersey area and an additional 34,000 surveys were sent to leaders of financial service industry companies.

On the surveys, recipients were asked to select only wealth managers whom they knew through personal experience, and to evaluate them based upon criteria such as: customer service, integrity, knowledge/expertise, communication, value for fee charged, meeting of financial objectives, post-sale-service, quality of recommendations and overall satisfaction. Only wealth managers with five years of experience in the financial services industry were considered.

In addition, each wealth manager was reviewed for regulatory actions, civil judicial actions and customer complaints as reported by FINRA (the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority) and other regulatory agencies.

Then, before finalizing the list, wealth managers were reviewed by a blue-ribbon panel. The blue-ribbon panel was comprised of knowledgeable individuals from within the financial services industry. Although panelist comments were incorporated into the final score, safeguards were built into the review process to reduce the ability of panel members to influence the composition of the final list on the basis of company affiliation.

The resulting list of 2011 FIVE STAR Wealth Managers is an elite group, representing less than 2 percent of the wealth managers in the New Jersey area.

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