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Phillip C. Richards, CFP®, CLU, RHUChairman of the Board, CEO
Phone: (612) 617-6000
Phillip C. Richards, CFP®, CLU, RHU is the Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of the affiliated companies that comprise North Star Resource Group. North Star represents a fully integrated array of financial services and products for individuals and businesses of all sizes and has over 90,000 clients with offices in over 15 states. Phil received his BS in 1962 from Temple University where he served as Student Body President. He also received the prestigious Sword Award as outstanding senior classman. A recipient of a four year Wrestling Scholarship, he served as Team Captain and was inducted into the National Wrestling Hall of Fame in April 2010. Phil was elected to the Temple University Board of Trustees in 2009. Phil began his professional career in the insurance industry in 1962 with the Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company in Philadelphia. In 1965, he joined Hartford Life where he led the company in brokerage sales. In 1969, Phil acquired North Star Resource Group which has received the prestigious Master Firm Award every year since 1988 from GAMA International and which is celebrating over 100 years in business. North Star was awarded the Community Service Award from InvestmentNews in 2010 and the Better Business Bureau’s Integrity Award in 2011. A winner of numerous industry awards, Phil is the 2005 Inductee into the GAMA International Hall of Fame and is the only firm leader in the world to have received the International Management Award from GAMA International each and every year (38 years) since the inception of that award. In 2007, Phil was named recipient of the 66th annual John Newton Russell Memorial Award, the highest honor in the insurance industry from The National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors. Phil’s first book, 25 Secrets for Sustainable Success, was published in March 2007. North Star has been ranked one of the 3 largest organizations of its kind in the world by GAMA International for the last three years. Combined Gross Sales Revenues, were in excess of $50,000,000 and has over 300 associates in the firm. Philis an Adjunct Professor Emeritus for the Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota and former Adjunct Professor at Central University of Finance and Economics in China; is four-time Chairman of Securian’s National Advisory Board and this year was inducted into its Hall of Fame; served on the Executive Board of Directors for the Minnesota Council for Quality; and is Past President of GAMA International (2002-2003). He is an arbitrator for the Better Business Bureau and a GIFT Faculty Member; is a Past Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Minnesota/North Dakota Better Business Bureau; and served on the Board of Directors of the Arizona Quality Council. He currently serves on the Board of Trustees for The American College in Philadelphia. In addition, he is a past Chairman of the LIFE Foundation and currently serves on the Mayo Clinic of Arizona Leadership Council as well as the treasurer of the Arizona Heart Foundation’s Board of Trustees. He chairs the Scott Richards North Star Charitable Foundation. Phil has been a featured speaker in over a dozen countries on topics including strategic planning, leadership, and alternate distribution systems in the financial services industry in the 21st century. He has addressed the annual meetings of over 100 companies; was a main platform speaker at the National GAMA International LAMP Meeting in 1998 and its Canadian counterpart in Toronto in 1999; a main platform speaker in Singapore, Taipei and Manila in August 2000; and a main platform speaker at the Asian Pacific Conference in Bangkok (where he co-founded GAMA Thailand) in 2001 and 2010 and in Singapore in 2011; Crete, Greece in 2002; Sidney, Australia in 2005; Shanghai and Beijing, China for 4 years and again in 2006 as a lecturer at Beijing University and Shanghai University for Finance and Economics. He was a main platform speaker for MDRT in Vancouver in 2010.
CFP® and CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNERTM are certification marks owned by the Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards, Inc. These marks are awarded to individuals who successfully complete the CFP Board’s initial and ongoing certification requirements.
North Star Resource Group North Star Consultants, Inc. CRI Securities, LLC Securian Financial Services, Inc. North Star Resource Group offers securities and investment advisory services through CRI Securities, LLC and Securian Financial Services, Inc., Members FINRA/SIPC. 2701 University Ave. S.E., Minneapolis, MN 55414, 612-617-6000. CRI Securities, LLC is affiliated with Securian Financial Services, Inc. 470807 / 04-2012 |
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North Star Resource Group and its affiliate(s) CRI Securities, LLC are independently owned and operated, and offers its own suite of products and services entirely independent of Securian. Certain individuals associated with North Star Resource Group are registered with and offer securities and investment advisory services through Securian Financial Services, Inc. ("Securian") and CRI Securities, LLC, registered broker-dealers and investment advisors, member FINRA/SIPC. Individuals registered with Securian and CRI Securities, LLC are authorized to offer only those securities and investment advisory services that have been specifically approved by Securian and CRI Securities, LLC. Additional information about individuals registered with FINRA can be found on FINRA’s BrokerCheck. For information about which individuals associated with North Star Resource Group are registered with Securian and CRI Securities, LLC, as well as information about which securities and investment advisory services such individuals are authorized to offer on Securian and CRI Securities, LLC’s behalf, please contact Securian at 1-800-820-4205.
North Star Resource Group, 2701 University Ave. S.E., Minneapolis, MN, 55414 612-617-6000 |
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