National Planning Corporation® Launches Trust Services Program

SANTA MONICA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--

National Planning Corporation (NPC^®) today announced the launch of the NPC Trust Services* program, designed to provide NPC's advisers with the ability to offer a comprehensive suite of trust services to current clients and future prospects. Within the program, NPC advisers will act as the Trust Relationship Manager for their clients, providing information and guidance about living trusts, charitable trusts, trusts created by will, revocable trusts and employee benefit plans. National Advisors Trust Company (NATC), a federally chartered trust company, will be responsible for the fiduciary duty of the trust account.

“NPC Trust Services provides our advisers with the opportunity to offer a more comprehensive suite of wealth management services, allowing them to build deeper and more meaningful client relationships, and potentially extend those relationships for generations to come,” said Lynn Niedermeier, president and CEO of National Planning Corporation. “NPC is dedicated to helping our advisers assist their clients in reaching their most important goals, and NPC Trust Services represents an extension of that commitment.”

Additional benefits of the NPC Trust Services program for advisers include the ability to capture new assets, generate a more robust revenue stream, and further position themselves as their clients' primary adviser. It is estimated that as much as $41 trillion will pass from one generation to another between 2000 and 2050¹, significantly increasing the need for advisers to provide stability for existing clients, while also ensuring that future generations are financially protected.

NPC has developed a comprehensive set of informational resources and client-facing marketing materials, as well as a special webinar series to assist advisers in positioning the trust creation, implementation and management process to clients. To learn more about the NPC Trust Services program, visit www.privatelabeltrust.com/npc.

National Planning Corporation has more than 1,500 affiliated financial advisers across the United States and is one of the four firms in the National Planning Holdings, Inc.^® network. For more information about National Planning Corporation, please visit www.joinnpc.com.

*NPC Trust Services is a Trust Representative Office and d/b/a (“doing business as”) of National Advisors Trust Company, FSB, a federally chartered trust company. NATC d/b/a NPC Trust Services is a separate company which is not affiliated with National Planning Corporation.

About National Planning Holdings, Inc.

National Planning Holdings, Inc. (NPH^®) is a broker-dealer holding company and an affiliate of Lansing, Mich.-based Jackson National Life Insurance Company. NPH serves as the holding company for the independent broker-dealers INVEST Financial Corporation, Investment Centers of America, National Planning Corporation, and SII Investments, Inc. Collectively, the NPH broker-dealer network currently has 3,644 registered representatives as of 9/30/2011. NPH and Jackson are wholly owned by Prudential plc PUK, a company incorporated and with its principal place of business in the United Kingdom. Prudential plc is not affiliated in any manner with Prudential Financial, Inc., a company whose principal place of business is in the United States of America.

¹ Millionaires and the Millennium, John Havens and Paul Schervish, 1999