Local Merrill Lynch Advisor Receives Top Recognition from Forbes

Christopher Andrews, CFA®, CFP®, a Wealth Management Advisor with Merrill Lynch Wealth Management in Palm Beach, FL, was recently recognized on the Forbes "Best-In-State Wealth Advisors" list. Andrews is Senior Vice President and partner in the Andrews Luther Webb Group, a multi-generational structured team of wealth advisors who work with multi-generational family clients. He joined Merrill Lynch in 1999 and focuses on providing retirement planning services and fiduciary-based asset management to families, executives, and business owners.

A Kalispell, Montana native, Andrews earned a bachelor's degree from Pacific University and a Master of Business Administration from the Thunderbird Graduate School of International Management. He is a member of the Financial Analysts Society of South Florida, as well as the Financial Planning Association. He resides in Delray Beach with his wife, and together they have three children.

Forbes “Best-In-State Wealth Advisors” ranking was developed by SHOOK Research and is based on in-person and telephone due diligence meetings to evaluate each advisor qualitatively, a major component of a ranking algorithm that includes: client retention, industry experience, review of compliance records, firm nominations; and quantitative criteria, including: assets under management and revenue generated for their firms.