Advisor choice is the point.
You should be making the decisions for your business because no one understands your clients or your practice better than you do.
We offer three distinct paths with access to the same platform, support, and infrastructure. Whichever path fits, you retain 100% ownership and full control of how you run your business.
Option 1
Step Into Sovereign
Affiliate under our corporate RIA.
Work under the Sovereign brand and step into an established platform from day one. The registration, the compliance infrastructure, the technology, and the support team are already built and running. You bring your clients. Everything to support them is in place.
Our footprint is national. Advisors affiliate with Sovereign from offices across the country, from their own space, or fully remote — whatever matches how you practice and where your clients are. If you want a physical office, we’ll help you configure it. If you’d rather not carry that overhead, you don’t have to.
You’ll be included on the corporate RIA website with your own practice profile. Many of our advisors think of this as the best of both worlds: your practice, your clients, your name on the door — communicated with the credibility and scale of a national platform and brand behind it.
Stepping into Sovereign doesn’t mean giving anything up. Your clients remain your clients. Your investment decisions remain yours, with open architecture and no captive product lists. Your practice remains yours to build, sell, or hand to a successor on your terms.
You’re also welcome at corporate-sponsored client events, advisor education sessions, and peer learning throughout the year — the kind of programming that’s difficult to justify as a solo shop and easy to plug into here.
Best for advisors who want a complete, ready-made home and the credibility of an established name.
Option 2
Your Brand, Our Backing
Operate under your own DBA.
If you’ve built your own firm name, keep it. You’ll operate under your own DBA with full control over your name, logo, and brand — running on Sovereign’s platform with access to the same technology, compliance infrastructure, and support as every other advisor on the platform.
Your clients stay yours. You have access to Sovereign’s corporate office locations, or you can operate from your own location. You and your clients are welcome at corporate-sponsored events throughout the year.
A $250 per month DBA fee applies.
Option 3
Sovereign as a Service™
Stay fully independent; we build and manage your digital presence.
You became an advisor to advise, not to manage a website, learn podcast editing, or study search rankings. Sovereign as a Service handles all of that.
We build and manage your entire digital presence: a website under your own name, video and podcast production, social media, branding, SEO/AEO, and online advertising.
You own your practice and every client relationship. Growing your digital presence is our responsibility. The one thing that stays in your hands is compliance, which remains your responsibility. Everything else is ours to run.
Continuity & Succession
Plan for what’s next.
At Sovereign, we take continuity and succession planning seriously. And like everything else here, we give you the options and leave the decisions to you.
Continuity Planning
Protect your clients, family, and business with a continuity plan built around your terms.
Choose your successor, whether they’re with Sovereign or another firm, and retain control over the structure, agreements, and details.
- Clients / family / book are protected
- Advisor selects successor
- Terms remain flexible
Succession Planning
Plan a transition that protects your clients, preserves the value of your practice, and works on your timeline.
Whether you want a full exit or a gradual step toward retirement, we can help structure the path. Transition through Sovereign or choose another advisor or firm. The decision stays with you.
- Phase-transition options
- Book-purchase options