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May 17, 2012 @ 10:51 PM

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Nasdaq Composite 2,813.69- 60.35
S&P 500 1,304.86- 19.94

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AXA Advisors

Helping You Build Your Future, Your Way, with AXA Advisors, LLC of Portland, Oregon

Welcome to the Portland Branch of AXA Advisors, LLC. Our goal is to help you work toward the highest degree of security, growth and savings. By focusing on your broad financial picture, we are able to develop responsive as well as responsible strategies. Each component of the strategy is part of a well-conceived approach, enabling every facet of the strategy to work in harmony. Our financial professionals begin by helping you to establish a clear portrait of your present financial resources, liabilities and goals, and to help determine your comfort level of risk. Then, working together, we can develop a strategy that allocates your financial resources with your goals, needs and objectives in mind. If suitable, we can then provide the appropriate products and services to help fund that strategy. As your goals change over time, we can help you adjust your asset allocation to work toward them. In order to best serve our clients we use state of the art products and services for individuals and businesses, which include (but are not limited to):

  • Fee based financial planning
  • Retirement and estate planning
  • Professional money management programs
  • Educational planning
  • Executive benefits compensation
  • Disability and long-term care planning
  • Life Insurance

Contemplating a career change?  We’re seeking individuals who possess high ethical standards, a strong team-player spirit and the desire to help others achieve financial independence. As an AXA Advisors, LLC Financial Professional, you'll enjoy the best of both worlds:  the challenge of building your own business like an "entrepreneur" with the support and strength of a leading financial corporation. Come explore a financial services career that offers competitive income earnings while building rewarding client relationships.

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