Investment Professionals, a private investment brokerage and asset management firm, has announced that it is opening up two new regions in the Northeast and Midwest of US for the firm to further expand its broker and dealer footprint.

Investment Professionals (IPI) has signed contracts with banks in Massachusetts, Vermont, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Indiana, Illinois and Wisconsin, US.

Gertz, senior vice president and director of business development at IPI, said: We are the last true independent firm of any size. Other firms out there have been bought by other companies while we remain standing strong. IPI also has wonderful support staff-to-financial consultant ratios that enable our consultants to beat industry average production numbers.