Stratos Wealth Partners, Ltd

Stratos Wealth Partners provides advisory services to a wide range of clients — including individual investors (both non‑HNW and high‑net‑worth), trusts, charitable organizations, corporations, retirement plans and other institutional clients — through portfolio management, financial planning, wrap and non‑wrap programs, and access to third‑party advisory solutions. Its Strategic Wealth Management platform is an open‑architecture offering that can aggregate multiple investments into a single account and supports both advisor‑managed and model‑based portfolios.

Investment advice is delivered primarily by IARs who are supervised by SWP; most IARs are independent contractors (with a program that allows a limited number to become employees) and implement discretionary or non‑discretionary strategies tailored to clients’ goals, risk tolerances and time horizons. The firm emphasizes active monitoring and asset‑allocation across multiple custodians (LPL, Fidelity, Schwab), and uses affiliated and unaffiliated sub‑advisors and platforms (including Stratos Investment Management, Envestnet and Pontera) to implement model and managed solutions.

Noteworthy features in the brochure include SWP’s organizational integration within Stratos Wealth Holdings — which comprises several RIAs, an affiliate sub‑advisor (SIM) and a limited‑purpose broker‑dealer — and its use of both affiliated sub‑advisory services and a broad set of third‑party program relationships. The firm also discloses participation in custodian and referral programs (including LPL program arrangements and the Fidelity Wealth Advisor Solutions referral program), the use of held‑away participant account tools, and specialty planning services such as sports and entertainment and executive planning, all of which create operational arrangements and potential conflicts of interest clients should review.