--- title: InvestmentNews names the financial advice industry's 2017 “Best Practices” - Burney Investment Management description: October 17, 2017, Boston, Mass. – InvestmentNews today named The Burney Company (Burney Company Investment Management) a winner of the 2017 Best Practices Awards, an important initiative that recognizes the top-performing and most innovative firms in the financial advice industry. 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The winners of the InvestmentNews Best Practices Awards were identified through their participation in the 2017 Adviser Compensation & Staffing and the 2017 Adviser Technology Study. The winning firms were officially recognized today at InvestmentNews’ Best Practices Award and Workshop, which was hosted at The Colonnade Hotel in Boston. “The Best Practices winners are some of the most strategic and successful firms in the advice business,” said Mark Bruno, associate publisher at InvestmentNews and head of InvestmentNews Research. “Their leaders have a clear plan and vision for growing their firms and managing elite organizations. Acknowledging their accomplishments and telling their stories will help educate, inform and influence the growth of the overall industry.” To identify the 2017 Best Practices Award winners, InvestmentNews Research created composite scores that examined several key metrics from its core benchmarking studies – including a firm’s rate of growth, profitability and productivity level. The data was obtained from over 700 independent advisory firms that participated in the 2017 Adviser Compensation & Staffing Study and the 2017 Adviser Technology Study. The “Best Practices” were those who ranked among the top-quartile of all participants; in addition, the final firms were selected after qualitative interviews conducted by the InvestmentNews Best Practices Committee. The 2017 Best Practices Award Winners are: **Excellence in Technology** Asset Management Group, Inc.  Balasa Dinverno Foltz LLC, Center for Financial Planning, Inc. Etesian Wealth Advisors Inc. Fierston Financial Group Nvest Financial Group, LLC Sensible Financial Planning and Management, LLC Strategic Wealth Management Group, LLC The Burney Company (Burney Company Investment Management) **Excellence in Compensation & Staffing** ACG Wealth Accredited Investors Wealth Management  CJM Wealth Advisers, Ltd. Dowling & Yahnke Wealth Management EisnerAmper Wealth Management & Corporate Benefits Foster & Motley, Inc. JMG Financial Group, Ltd. Johnson Investment Counsel Private Vista LLC Roof Advisory Group, Inc. Sage Financial Group Wacker Wealth Partners **About InvestmentNews Research** InvestmentNews Research, a division of InvestmentNews, provides financial advisers with the industry’s most informative practice management studies and benchmarking reports. InvestmentNews’ benchmarking studies are a leading source of market intelligence for advisory firms and industry partners, such as custodians, broker-dealers, service providers and professional organizations. In 2009, InvestmentNews acquired two bellwether benchmarking studies from Moss Adams LLP — the Adviser Compensation and Staffing Study and the Financial Performance Study of Advisory Firms. InvestmentNews has since added a technology study to its benchmarking reports. In addition to the regular benchmarking studies, InvestmentNews Research provides custodians, broker-dealers and RIAs with custom benchmarking reports and white papers that leverage our deep data and industry expertise. For more information, please contact: Mark Bruno, Associate Publisher, InvestmentNews mbruno@investmentnews.com --- *The Burney Company is an SEC-registered investment adviser. Burney Wealth Management is a division of the Burney Company. Registration with the SEC or any state securities authority does not imply that Burney Company or any of its principals or employees possesses a particular level of skill or training in the investment advisory business or any other business. 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