Accolades
Starner Group
- 2026 Forbes Best-in-State Wealth Management Teams
- 2025 SHOOK Research Top Wealth Management Team
- 2024 SHOOK Research Top Wealth Management Team
Bruce Cacho-Negrete
- 2026 Forbes Best-in-State Wealth Advisors
- 2026 Barron’s Top 1,500 Financial Advisors
Scott Weingarden
- 2026 Forbes Best-in-State Wealth Advisors
- 2026 Barron’s Top 1,500 Financial Advisors
Margaret C. Starner
- 2026 Forbes America's Top and/or Best-in-State Women Wealth Advisors
- 2025 Barron’s Top 1,200 Financial Advisors
- 2025 SHOOK Research Top Women Wealth Advisors
- 2024 Barron’s Top 100 Women Financial Advisors
- 2024 Barron’s Top 1,200 Financial Advisors
- 2024 Barron’s Top 100 Financial Advisors
- 2024 SHOOK Research Top Women Wealth Advisors
- 2023 Barron’s Top 1,200 Financial Advisors
- 2023 Barron’s Top 100 Financial Advisors
- 2023 Barron’s Top 100 Women Financial Advisors
- 2023 SHOOK Research Top Women Wealth Advisors
- 2022 Barron’s Top 100 Financial Advisors
- 2022 Barron’s Top 100 Women Financial Advisors
- 2022 SHOOK Research Top Women Wealth Advisors
- 2022 SHOOK Research Top 250 Wealth Advisors
- 2021 Barron’s Top 100 Women Financial Advisors
- 2021 SHOOK Research Top Women Wealth Advisors
- 2020 SHOOK Research Top Women Wealth Advisors
- Lifetime Achievement:
- Barron’s Hall of Fame
- Investment News Diversity & Inclusion Lifetime Achievement Award
- Alexandra Armstrong Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Financial Services Industry
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Barron’s Top 100 Women Financial Advisors, (2019). Barron’s is a registered trademark of Dow Jones & Company, L.P. All rights reserved. The rankings are based on data provided by individual advisors and their firms and include qualitative and quantitative criteria. Data points that relate to quality of practice include professionals with a minimum of 7 years financial services experience, acceptable compliance records (no criminal U4 issues), client retention reports, charitable and philanthropic work, quality of practice, designations held, offering services beyond investments offered including estates and trusts, and more. Financial Advisors are quantitatively rated based on varying types of revenues produced and assets under management by the financial professional, with weightings associated for each. Investment performance is not an explicit component because not all advisors have audited results and because performance figures often are influenced more by clients’ risk tolerance than by an advisor’s investment picking abilities. The ranking may not be representative of any one client’s experience, is not an endorsement, and is not indicative of advisor’s future performance. Neither Raymond James nor any of its Financial Advisors pay a fee in exchange for this award/rating. Barron’s is not affiliated with Raymond James.
The FT 400 was developed in collaboration with Ignites Research, a subsidiary of the FT that provides specialized content on asset management. To qualify for the list, advisers had to have 10 years of experience and at least $300 million in assets under management (AUM) and no more than 60% of the AUM with institutional clients. The FT reaches out to some of the largest brokerages in the U.S. and asks them to provide a list of advisors who meet the minimum criteria outlined above. These advisors are then invited to apply for the ranking. Only advisors who submit an online application can be considered for the ranking. In 2019, roughly 960 applications were received and 400 were selected to the final list (41.7%). The 400 qualified advisers were then scored on six attributes: AUM, AUM growth rate, compliance record, years of experience, industry certifications, and online accessibility. AUM is the top factor, accounting for roughly 60-70 percent of the applicant’s score. Additionally, to provide a diversity of advisors, the FT placed a cap on the number of advisors from any one state that's roughly correlated to the distribution of millionaires across the U.S. The ranking may not be representative of any one client’s experience, is not an endorsement, and is not indicative of advisor’s future performance. Neither Raymond James nor any of its Financial Advisors pay a fee in exchange for this award/rating. The FT is not affiliated with Raymond James.
Barron’s Top 1,200 Financial Advisors, 2019. Barron’s is a registered trademark of Dow Jones & Company, L.P. All rights reserved. The rankings are based on data provided by over 4,000 individual advisors and their firms and include qualitative and quantitative criteria. Factors included in the rankings: assets under management, revenue produced for the firm, regulatory record, quality of practice and philanthropic work. Investment performance is not an explicit component because not all advisors have audited results and because performance figures often are influenced more by clients’ risk tolerance than by an advisor’s investment picking abilities. The ranking may not be representative of any one client’s experience, is not an endorsement, and is not indicative of advisor’s future performance. Neither Raymond James nor any of its Financial Advisors pay a fee in exchange for this award/rating. Barron’s is not affiliated with Raymond James.



