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Jacob Hardy

Advisor at Credit Union Investment Services

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Location

Granite Quarry, NC 28146

Credentials

Series 63, Series 65

Industry experience

17 years

About

Jacob Hardy is a financial advisor at Credit Union Investment Services with 17 years of industry experience. He holds Series 63 and Series 65 licenses and has worked with organizations including State Employees' Credit Union, SECU Life Insurance Company, and Members Trust Company. Hardy also serves as a Financial Advisory Services District Manager at State Employees' Credit Union. Credit Union Investment Services serves individual investors and trust clients in North Carolina, providing non-discretionary portfolio management, retirement and financial planning, and a wrap-fee program. The firm emphasizes a goals-based, long-term planning approach using primarily low-cost, index-based mutual funds and ETFs, with salaried representatives who do not exercise trading discretion over client accounts.

Client services

Based on Credit Union Investment Services

Financial planning Portfolio management Educational seminars or workshops

Expertise

Based on Credit Union Investment Services

General retirement planning Passive / index investing

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$0+: 0.25% for Cash $0+: 0.25% for Individual Fixed Income $0+: 0.50% for All other Securities

Other

Account minimum: $3,500

Location

970 N. Salisbury Ave

Granite Quarry, NC 28146

Most active in

North Carolina

Work history

Papa Johns

2018 - 2018 (1 year)

SECU Life insurance Company

2014 - Present (12 years)

Members Trust Company

2011 - Present (15 years)

Credit Union Investment Services

2008 - Present (18 years)

SECU Brokerage Services

2008 - Present (18 years)

State Employees' Credit Union

2006 - Present (20 years)

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