Mayflower

Boston-based Mayflower Advisors provides retirement plan consulting, wealth management and institutional advisory solutions. Since opening its first office in 2002, the practice has promoted a client-centric, entrepreneurial culture that emphasizes stability, accountability and teamwork to bring clients a New World approach to financial life management. Mayflower Advisors recently launched as an independent registered investment advisor (RIA). This strategic shift to a more sound fiduciary approach affirms the practices autonomy and positions the team to best meet clients financial and service needs with a flexible, scalable infrastructure and custom planning solutions. Financial Times created FT 401 and worked with Ignites Research to contact large U.S. brokerages, independent advisors and other wealth managers to identify qualified applicants. Broadridge Financial Solutions provided data. To qualify, advisors must have 20% or more of their total client assets in DC plans. Qualified advisors are identified and evaluated by Ignites using a ranking algorithm based on seven factors: DC assets under management, specialization in the DC business, growth rate in DC plan business, years of experience advising DC plans, industry certifications, participation rate in DC plans advised, compliance record. Awards and recognitions evaluate neither client experience nor previous investment performance and are not indicative of future performance. No payment of fees was required in exchange for participation.