About Our Firm

As independent financial service professionals, we have the freedom to choose the strategies that work best for each of our clients. In order to pursue the retirement of your dreams and meet the retirement income challenge, we will build an investment plan to help you grow your retirement assets while helping you keep it balanced through changing times.

In order to maximize the potential of a clients' assets , we have access to comprehensive research tools, a vast array of financial products, up to date technology, and the backing of LPL Financial, the number one independent brokerage firm in the U.S. LPL Financial provides everything we need to help our clients efficiently and confidently pursue a comfortable financial future.

'We will strive to do ordinary things, extraordinarily well."

Having spent four years with First Choice Financial, an investment research firm, Kevin Kraft felt that today's consumers deserved more than just a salesman approach to managing individual assetts.

Dedicated to assist in the development of true independant wealth plans, Kevin Kraft founded APS Associates, Inc. in order to provide retirement planning, estate planning and asset management services to each of our valued clients.

About LPL Financial

LPL Financial was formed in 1989 through the merger of two small but successful brokerage firms, Linsco (established in 1968) and Private Ledger (founded in 1973). Today, LPL Financial is America's No. 1 independent brokerage firm* with more than 11,300 advisors in 6,200 offices branch offices nationwide. Visit www.lpl.com to find out more information about LPL Financial.

  • #1 independent broker/dealer in the nation*
  • Over 2.2 billion in revenue in 2007
  • Service to over 750 financial institutions
  • Over $75 billion in asssets in LPL Financial's fee-based platform assets
  • Over $283 billion in assets as the broker/dealer of record

*As reported by Financial Planning magazine June 1996-2009, based on total revenues.

 

 

Our Advisors

Kevin Kraft
APS President/ LPL Financial Branch Manager
Ryan Shortridge
LPL Registered Representative