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Commonwealth Adds Broadridge’s Forefield Applications to
Research Package at No Cost to Advisors

Waltham, MA (July 19, 2011)—Commonwealth Financial Network® today announced a multiyear agreement with Forefield, a division of Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc. (NYSE:BR), to offer its research package subscribers a complimentary suite of web-based education and client communication solutions. The new materials will broaden the scope of the financial advisor’s deliverables, as well as allow an advisor to become well-versed on a particular financial planning topic quickly. Package enhancements include three new applications:

  • Forefield Advisor™. Provides access to more than 2,300 articles, 200 illustrations and tables, 200 calculators, and 400 client presentations on financial planning topics and scenarios.
  • Forefield Newsletter. Offers the ability to create newsletters on-demand using monthly content updates, articles, and market summaries.
  • Forefield Continuing Education Service. Allows advisors to earn the credits necessary to satisfy their CE requirements for many popular accreditations—including CFP®, ChFC®, CLF®, and CLU®—online. Forefield tracks the date on which an advisor successfully completes a test and automatically notifies the CFP® Board of Standards.

“Commonwealth understands the value of high-quality research and marketing tools, and we feel that Forefield’s suite of products is among the best in the business for meeting advisors’ needs to provide a higher level of service to their clients,” said David Juliano, Commonwealth’s advanced planning consultant.

“Broadridge is very excited to provide Commonwealth advisors with the trusted content and powerful client communication tools from Forefield,” said Andrew Besheer, vice president, customer communications, Broadridge. “This agreement represents a very significant client win for Broadridge’s Forefield division. We look forward to building a strong working partnership with Commonwealth, one of the acknowledged leaders in the independent brokerage market,” continued Mr. Besheer.

Advisors will have access to an extensive selection of materials to post on their firm’s website, including more than 1,000 articles and newsletters, as well as video market commentary that can be posted automatically for advisors using Commonwealth’s EasySite website program. Research package subscribers will also receive Forefield Alerts on recent regulatory and legislative changes.

“The Forefield database is an easy way to present financial topics to clients, without having to recreate the wheel,” said Andrew Tupler, CFP®, AIF®, MBA, a Commonwealth advisor and president of Tupler Financial. “Not only do the e-newsletters save us time and postage, but we have received several new clients from current customers who have forwarded the newsletter to their family, friends, and colleagues.”

This suite of services went live to more than 1,400 Commonwealth advisors on June 30, 2011.

Commonwealth Financial Network received the highest numerical score in the independent advisor segment in the proprietary J.D. Power and Associates 2010 Financial Advisor Satisfaction StudySM. Study based on 2,863 total responses and measures overall financial advisor satisfaction among advisors registered with the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) investment firms. Proprietary study results are based on experiences and perceptions of financial advisors surveyed in February–June and July–August, 2010. Your experiences may vary. Visit jdpower.com.

About Broadridge
Broadridge (NYSE:BR) is a technology services company focused on global capital markets. Broadridge is a market leader enabling secure and accu­rate processing of information for communications and securities transactions among issuers, investors, and financial intermediar­ies. Broadridge builds the infrastructure that underpins proxy services for more than 90 percent of public compa­nies and mutual funds in North America; processes more than $3 trillion in fixed income and equity trades per day; and saves companies billions annu­ally through its technology solu­tions. For more information about Broadridge, please visit www.broadridge.com.


Contacts:
Emily Guadagnoli
Manager, Media Relations
Commonwealth Financial Network
www.commonwealth.com
781.736.7980, x9639
eguadagnoli@commonwealth.com

Broadridge Media Contacts:
Arlene Driscoll                                                            
Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc.
212.981.1347                                                     
arlene.driscoll@broadridge.com                              

Edward Orgon
The Torrenzano Group
212.681.1700
eorgon@torrenzano.com




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