JNBA Financial Advisors Hires Thomas W. Evans as Senior Advisor

MINNEAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Bloomington-based JNBA Financial Advisors has hired Thomas W. Evans as Senior Advisor. With more than a decade of experience helping clients with retirement planning, tax consulting and estate planning, Evans specializes in providing wealth management solutions to high-net-worth individual and institutional clients.

Evans is a CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™, a graduate of the University of Chicago, and one of 1,000 advisors in the country who have received a Masters in Financial Planning from the College of Financial Planning. As a Senior Advisor with considerable leadership, experience and strategic-planning skills, Evans will serve on JNBA’s Financial Planning and Investment committees.

Evans joins JNBA as the firm celebrates its 30^th anniversary. Founder Judith Brown’s son Richard and daughter-in-law Kim continue the vision Judith established in 1979, concentrating on building the company’s client-focused reputation and maintaining the independent, community-focused outlook that JNBA was founded upon. Since Richard joined JNBA in 1997, the company has tripled in assets under management and consistently posts an above 95-percent client retention rate. Richard Brown has twice been named one of the nation’s top 100 independent wealth advisers by Barron’s and The Winner’s Circle.*

ABOUT JNBA

Bloomington-based JNBA Financial Advisors, Inc., is an independent fee-based wealth management firm specializing in goal-directed asset management and financial planning. Their advisory teams provide advice on future financial direction as well as current financial issues. For more information, visit www.jnba.com.

*As rated by The Winner’s Circle and Barron’s in the August 27, 2007, and August 18, 2008, issues. Rankings and/or recognition by publications should not be construed by a client or prospective client as a guarantee that he/she will experience a certain level of results if JNBA is engaged, or continues to be engaged, to provide investment advisory services, nor should it be construed as a current or past endorsement of JNBA by any of its clients. Rankings published by magazines, and others, generally base their selections exclusively on information prepared and/or submitted by the recognized adviser. A copy of JNBA’s current written disclosure statement discussing advisory services and fees is available upon request.