Marty Bicknell

Firm: Mariner Wealth Advisors

Name: Marty Bicknell

Location: Overland Park, KS

Team Custodied Assets: $86 billion

Forbes Rankings: America’s Top RIA Firms

Background: Marty Bicknell grew up in a small town in southeastern Kansas called Pittsburg. Though he was at first studying pre-law while attending nearby Pittsburg State University, Bicknell landed an internship at a small, single practitioner Edward Jones location, where he fell in love with the business. After graduating in 1991, he moved to Kansas City and got a job with wirehouse A.G. Edwards, where he worked for more than 15 years. He founded Mariner in 2006 with seven other partners on the idea that operate according to the fiduciary standard, which stipulates that advisors must work in a clients best interest, rather than the “suitability” standard used by many wirehouse brokers, which........

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