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Chris Bouffard Joins Prime Capital Investment Advisors
Longtime wealth management and investment executive to join Prime Capital Wealth Management as it continues to build its wealth advisory and investment business

OVERLAND PARK, Kan. (Feb. 7, 2019) — Prime Capital Investment Advisors (PCIA) announces that Christopher Bouffard joins Prime Capital Wealth Management (PCWM), in a significant leadership role as managing director of wealth management.

In his newly created role, Bouffard will be intimately involved in the development and evolution of Prime Capital Wealth Management’s business strategies. His responsibilities will include developing the Prime Capital Wealth Management brand, its go-to-market strategies, overall investment philosophy, wealth management service offerings, lead generation function, and advisor/client communications strategies.

Chris joins PCWM most recently from Financial Engines and The Mutual Fund Store (now Edelman Financial Engines), where he spent six years. During his time with the Mutual Fund Store

Chris Bouffard – Managing Director, Wealth Management

, then Financial Engines, he served as chief investment officer as well as managing director. During his tenure, the overall organization experienced significant growth, and Chris was engaged in staffing, training, providing education support services to advisors and clients, and developing retail investment strategies.

Chris also brings more than 17 years of experience from American Century and Lipper (a Thomson Reuters Company).

“Chris understands what it takes to operate in a high growth environment and he brings specific expertise and understanding of the wealth management business,” said Glenn Spencer, CEO of PCIA. “We are thrilled to have Chris join our firm as we continue to experience significant expansion of our wealth management business.”

Over the past nine months, PCWM has added offices in Batesville, Indiana, and Fayetteville, Arkansas, and invested in teams in San Antonio and Denver. “We intend to continue to build our wealth management business across the U.S., and attracting the most talented professionals in our business will be critical,” said Scott Colangelo, managing partner of PCWM. “We’ve known Chris’ reputation for years and he’s exactly the kind of talent we need at this time.”

About Prime Capital Investment Advisors
Prime Capital Investment Advisors provides a client-centric team approach to full-service financial planning, including fee-based asset management and wealth management through its Prime Capital Wealth Management brand. Through its Qualified Plan Advisors brand, the firm also provides retirement plan advisory services, as well as plan participant education. PCIA currently has 16 locations throughout the United States, with investment advisor representatives serving clients across the nation.

Advisory services offered through Prime Capital Investment Advisors, LLC. (“PCIA”), a Registered Investment Adviser. PCIA: 6201 College Blvd., 7th Floor, Overland Park, KS 66211. PCIA doing business as Qualified Plan Advisors (“QPA”) and Prime Capital Wealth Management (“PCWM”).