2019
Establishment of Edwards Wealth Management
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2018
Over 70 offices, nearly 300 financial advisors and nearly 600 employees in 27 states.
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2015
Benjamin F. Edwards has more than 50 offices and almost 200 advisors in 24 states.
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2014
Benjamin F. Edwards crosses $15 billion in Assets Under Management.
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2013
Benjamin F. Edwards crosses 100-advisor threshold, adds investment banking and mergers and acquisitions to its service offerings.
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2012
Boosts advisor headcount by more than 10 percent in 10-day hiring flurry. Closes year with 26 offices.
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2010
Benjamin F. Edwards opens its tenth office nationally in Atlanta, Georgia, giving it a presence in six states.
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2009
Benjamin F. Edwards opens its first branch in Springfield, Missouri.
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2008
Tad Edwards leaves Wachovia Securities and establishes Benjamin F. Edwards & Co. in St. Louis.
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2007
Wachovia Securities acquires A.G. Edwards, the 120-year old firm founded by Tad Edwards’ great-great-grandfather and led by his father, Benjamin F. Edwards III, for 40 years. He stepped down in 2001.
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1977
Tad Edwards joins A.G. Edwards.
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1971
A.G. Edwards issues stock and goes public.
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1966
Benjamin F. Edwards III, Tad’s father, assumes leadership of A.G. Edwards from Presley Edwards, Tad’s grandfather.
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1929
Presley Edwards is named managing partner of A.G. Edwards and leads the firm through World War II and the Great Depression.
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1925
Presley Edwards, son of Benjamin F. Edwards I, joins A.G. Edwards.
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1898
A.G. Edwards & Sons purchases a seat on the New York Stock Exchange.
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1887
Albert Gallatin Edwards, Tad Edwards’ great-great-grandfather, at the age of 75, establishes A.G. Edwards & Sons, with his son, Benjamin Franklin Edwards I. The firm is the only brokerage in St. Louis that works with local banks to place trades on the New York Stock Exchange.
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1865
President Abraham Lincoln appoints Albert Gallatin Edwards to Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for the Sub-Treasury Bank in St. Louis.
