Helping You Reach Your Financial Goals.

 

 

Empire Financial Partners, an independent office of  John Hancock Financial Network, has been helping individuals, families, and business owners realize their financial goals for over 100 years.         

We are primarily a New York state based organization with offices in Albany, Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse, Saratoga Springs, Binghamton and Fairport, New York; plus Erie, Pennsylvania and Richmond, Virginia. The firm is headed by Robert M. Burgio, Managing Partner, and is one of the John Hancock Financial Network's largest regional firms with approximately 100 fulltime representatives and is based in Albany, New York.

 

 Empire Financial Partners offers a wide range of products and services:              

-- Wealth Management     -- Portfolio Building          -- Business Planning Strategies

-- Retirement Planning      -- Key Person Insurance  -- Trust & Estate Planning Strategies

-- Insurance Protection     -- Financial Planning        -- Business Succession Planning

-- Executive Compensation Strategies

               

The products and services are offered through our affiliation with:

-- SIGNATOR INVESTORS, INC. - a broker/dealer offering a wide range of investment products and innovative technology solutions for investors' accounts

 -- JOHN HANCOCK - provides the products and services to meet the retirement and protection needs of clients.

 

In additionEmpire Financial Partners provides insurance products from a wide range of companies to meet our clients' special needs or high-risk situations.

 

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