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As a subscriber you can listen to articles at work, in the car, or while you work out. Subscribe NowIndianapolis-based Cooke Financial Group LLC, which oversees $1.7 billion in assets, is moving its 11-person team from Wells Fargo Advisors LLC to David A. Noyes & Co.
The deal, which closed Nov. 18, gives a big boost to Noyes, which was founded in Chicago in 1908 and has had an Indianapolis office for 80 years. The Cooke office will be the largest of Noyes’ seven outposts in Indiana, Illinois and Michigan.
Cooke Financial, led by brothers Chris and Brian Cooke, has frequently received national recognition. For example, Barron’s ranked Brian No. 7 on its 2016 list of best financial advisers in Indiana and The Financial Times this year ranked Chris and Brian among the nation’s top 400 advisers.
Both men are joining Noyes as partners.
“We’re buying into Noyes and becoming part-owners of the firm,” Chris told IBJ. The brothers declined to say how much they were paying.
The Cookes’ father, John Cooke, founded Cooke Financial Group in 1969. The firm offers investment consulting and financial planning to wealthy individuals and families, not-for-profits, institutional clients, retirement plans and trusts.
Cooke Financial plans to retain all its employees and its current office space at 8888 Keystone Crossing, which it will sublease from San Francisco-based Wells Fargo.
Cooke will continue its relationship with First Clearing Corp., a Wells Fargo affiliate that provides financial custody and clearing services.
“This is all on a friendly basis. This really doesn’t happen in our world,” Brian Cooke said.•
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