Own your practice
Your clients, your brand, your book of business. Affiliate on your terms and keep full control of how you serve the people who trust you.
Headquartered in Louisville · Serving advisors in all 50 states
Let our independence ignite yours.
From our home on Lexington Road in Louisville to advisors serving clients all around the nation. Privately held, financially strong, and built so you own your practice without carrying the firm alone.
Financial strength & tradition
Strong enough to stand behind you. Small enough to shake your hand.
We are privately held with no board and no outside investors. That is what lets us stay stable through every market cycle, move at the speed of a phone call, and keep the handshake mentality we started with.
Financial strength
Privately held with no board and no outside investors, so we answer to advisors instead of shareholders. Member FINRA and SIPC, licensed in all 50 states, steady through every cycle.
A handshake mentality
Our advisors are known for having the owners' direct numbers. The people supporting you have run practices, not just policies, and they pick up the phone.
Decisions at your speed
Transparent economics, high payouts, and decisions made with the speed and experience of a firm that owns itself, not one waiting on a committee.
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From our founder
We want to be your Broker/Dealer.
"I recognize Private Client Services is likely only one of many firms vying for your relationship, and choosing the one firm that best fits your needs is a hard decision to make."
Ernest Sampson, Chief Executive Officer
Our business model
The support of a large firm, the feel of a handshake.
Private Client Services sits between the two extremes advisors usually have to choose from. You get the scale, oversight, and technology of a national broker-dealer, delivered by a team small enough to know your name and your practice.
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Compliance that clears the path
A supervision and compliance team that protects your practice and keeps you moving.
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Technology that works
Clearing and reporting on established platforms built for real advisory work.
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Transition support
A dedicated team that plans the move, handles the paperwork, and keeps your clients informed.
Our tradition
Private Client Services was established in 2001.
We were one of the first firms built for the hybrid RIA, back when very few broker-dealers would support both sides of an advisor's business. Steve is supplying the remaining milestones.
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2001
Founded in Louisville
PCS opens on Lexington Road as one of the earliest firms built to serve successful, independent financial advisors.
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Early on
An early hybrid RIA
PCS supports fee-based advisory alongside brokerage years before most broker-dealers would, on multiple custodial platforms and with no proprietary products.
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Licensed in all 50 states
What began as a regional firm becomes a national one, without giving up private ownership.
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Today
Still privately held
No board, no outside investors. Advisors still reach the owners directly.
In their words
Why advisors stay.
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"I've been associated with the folks at PCS for more than 20 years. It's one of the truly independent Broker/Dealers with an entrepreneurial flair."
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"Private Client Services provides my business with a stable foundation of compliance, office support, and resources."
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"PCS is supported by tenured professionals who know my firm members by first name and work to support our business in partnership."
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"We chose to affiliate with Private Client Services because we identify with their foundation of integrity and trust."
Real advisor quotes from pcsbd.net, shown with first names only. PCS is supplying advisor photos.
Ways to join
More than one way to bring your practice home.
Whether you are moving an established book or folding a smaller practice into a larger one, there is a path that fits.
Independent advisor
Bring your full practice to PCS and run it as your own business, backed by our broker-dealer and advisory platform.
Join a larger practice
Affiliate under the PCS corporate RIA, keep serving your clients as an advisor, and hand compliance and the back office to a team that has it covered.
Brokerage and advisory
Run fee-based and commission business under one roof, with the flexibility to serve clients the way each relationship calls for.
Start the conversation
Independence is a decision. Make it with people who have made it too.
Tell us about your practice. Every conversation is confidential, and it moves at your pace, not ours.