Barnum Financial earns top MetLife award
Shelton-based Barnum Financial Group, an office of MetLife, has been named “MetLife Premier Client Group”™s 2013 Firm of the Year.”
This marks the second consecutive year Barnum has won MetLife”™s top management honor.
Barnum Financial provides what it calls “a full range of investment and risk management products and services” to more than 230,000 clients. It maintains offices in Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York and Rhode Island. The company and Managing Director Paul Blanco were subjects of a page 1 story in the Dec. 23, 2013, Fairfield County Business Journal.
“Reaching the level of performance required to be ”˜Firm of the Year”™ took a superb, ongoing effort and commitment by all of our employees ”“ including our financial advisers, as well as our managerial and support staff,” Blanco said. “Barnum advisers combine the best tools and technology with experienced judgment, product knowledge and dedicated service to help our clients achieve their financial goals. Increasingly, that service requires a team approach ”“ and in 2013, our teams really delivered.”
“Barnum Financial epitomizes our commitment to providing outstanding products, service and professional guidance through a consultative, comprehensive approach to our many clients across the United States,” said Paul LaPiana, senior vice president of MetLife Premier Client Group. “I”™d like to personally commend the firm and its members for all their hard work in 2013 and congratulate them on this well-deserved recognition.”