FIRM PROFILE Firm Name: Farmer’s Marketing Service Founded: 1985 Number of Brokers: 1 IB Status: guaranteed I.B. NIBA Member Since: Charter Member 1991 Address (City, State): Brinkley, Arkansas Number of Branch Offices: 0 NFA Registration Number: 0183782 About the firm: How did you get started? Do you provide additional services besides brokerage? Was farming in the early 80’s and decided I was not a very good marketer. That led to interest in the commodity markets which led to me getting my series 3 and opening an office in Brinkley. I am a consultant and charge a fee per acre to market crops for farmers. What are the…...
NIBA Member of the Month: Stewart-Peterson Group, Inc.
FIRM PROFILE Firm Name: Stewart-Peterson Group Inc. Founded: 1985 Number of Brokers: 20+ IB Status: GIB NIBA Member Since: Its inception Address (City, State): West Bend, Wisconsin Number of Branch Offices: 6 Website: www.stewartpetersongroup.com NFA Registration Number: 0185491 About the Firm: How did you get started? Do you provide additional services besides brokerage? The founder of Stewart-Peterson Group, Scott Stewart, has a passion for agriculture, and wanted to do what he could to help producers in their marketing. Stewart-Peterson provides services to producers that help them make impactful pricing decisions through one-on-one relationships and newsletters. What are the biggest challenges your clients face today, and how do you…...
Member of the Month | Michael Coglianese CPA, P.C.
NIBA Member Spotlight on Michael Coglianese CPA, P.C. Founded: April 1987 NIBA Member Since: 2009 Address: 125 E. Lake Street, Suite 303, Bloomingdale, IL 60108 Branch Offices: 2 Web: cogcpa.com About the Firm: Michael Coglianese CPA, P.C. was founded in 1987. Before that, Mike Coglianese was working at NFA as an In-Charge Compliance Auditor. Sitting across the table during the compliance and financial audits and investigations of NFA Members, Mike realized that the Futures Industry was lacking accountants who were experienced with the intricacies of the regulatory world. He set out to fill that void. Over the past 28 years, his firm…...
NIBA Member of the Month: Attain Capital Management
FIRM PROFILE Firm Name: Attain Capital Management Founded: 2002 Number of Brokers: 6 IB Status: IIB NIBA Member Since: 2005 Address (City, State): Chicago, IL Number of Branch Offices: 3 Website(s): AttainCapital.com, AttainFunds.com, managed-futures-blog.attaincapital.com, ibroker.com, isystems.com NFA Registration Number: 0322102 About the Firm: How did you get started? Do you provide additional services besides brokerage? After experience on the trading floors and with various other futures brokers, partners Walter Gallwas and Jeff Malec decided to set off on their own with the founding of Attain in 2002, focusing initially on opening trading system accounts executed by a team of brokers…...
NIBA Member Spotlight on The Windham Group
NIBA Member Spotlight on The Windham Group Firm Name: The Windham Group, Inc. Founded: April 1997 # of Brokers: Four IB Status: Independent NIBA Member Since: 1997 Address: 363 West 22nd Street, NY NY 10011 Branch Offices: n/a Web: www.e-windham.com About the Firm: How did you get started? Do you provide additional services besides brokerage? After working for thirteen years with Cargill Investor Services, primarily in the energy futures area, I left the firm to join ING Derivatives to head up their New York branch office. But after two years with the firm ING decided to exit the futures business, and I set…...
R.J. O’Brien & Associates (RJO)| NIBA Member Spotlight
Firm Name: R.J. O’Brien & Associates (RJO) Founded: 1914 – Celebrating firm’s Centennial this year Number of Brokers: Approximately 400 IBs in the RJO network – the largest IB network in the industry NIBA Member Since: 2013 Web: www.rjobrien.com About the Firm: How did you get started? Do you provide additional services besides brokerage? RJO had humble beginnings as a butter and egg merchant. Founded as John V. McCarthy & Company on Oct. 17, 1914, John McCarthy started the company pushing butter on a cart. An immigrant of Ireland, he was the first in his family to attend high school. In…...
Ten Yard Capital, LLC | NIBA Member Spotlight
Firm Name: Ten Yard Capital, LLC Principal: Adrian V. Fleisher, [email protected] Founded: May 2010, NFA Member Approval Dec 2011, Started Managing Monies Aug 2012 Number of Brokers: 1 NIBA Member Since: 2013 Address: 21381 Hawthorne Lane, Kildeer, IL Web: www.tenyardcapital.com About the Firm: How did you get started? Do you provide additional services besides brokerage? From 2008 to 2010, I was employed with a firm as VP of Operations. There were three of us running the business. One partner was the face of the firm, the other partner managed monies. I was brought in to run the day to day…...
AG & Investment Services, Inc. | NIBA Member Spotlight
Firm Name: AG & Investment Services, Inc. Founded: 1986 Number of Brokers: 3 IB Status: Guaranteed NIBA Member Since: Since first year of organization, 1991 Address: 644 First Street, Suite 2, Webster City, Iowa 50595 Web: AGandInvestments.com This month’s featured member is Ag. & Investment Services, Inc. The firm has been an NFA member continuously registered since 1987. The firm’s President, Sue Martin was kind enough to provide NIBA with the information you will read below on the firm, its principal, history and operations. Sue has over 25 years of experience in the finance industry. Sue can be heard on…...