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Deals & People December 16, 2010
Hocker Gets Job with First Allied
First Allied Securities, an independent broker/dealer, hired
Guy J. Hocker as Senior Managing Director of its pension services
division.
Reported by Fred Schneyer
The primary focus of Hocker’s team is to provide qualified retirement plans to the clients of First Allied’s nearly 1,000 independent financial advisers. Hocker reports to Robert S. Holcomb, President of First Allied Wealth Management.
According to a news release, Hocker has more than a decade of experience as an ERISA lawyer. Immediately prior to joining First Allied, he was President of Benefit Planning, Inc., the Los Angeles office of National Investment Managers.
Hocker’s ERISA legal experience includes substantial Internal Revenue Service/Department of Labor submissions and negotiations; complex plan designs (defined benefits/defined contribution combinations); niche designs (prevailing wage and non-profit); and comprehensive experience with qualified plan compliance practice management, the announcement said.
Hocker earned his law degree from William Howard Taft University and his bachelor’s degree in business administration from the Walter Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley.