Financial Advisor Garners Award

Wells Fargo Advisors, a national brokerage firm based in St. Louis, recently announced that Joseph Xerri, AAMS, vice president-investment officer, has once again received the FIVE STAR Wealth Manager award.

Xerri is a financial advisor in the firm’s East Brunswick office.

A graduate of Brooklyn College, and formerly a CPA, Xerri has been a financial advisor for more than 25 years. He joined A.G. Edwards & Sons, Inc. a predecessor firm of Wells Fargo Advisors, in 1994. Xerri is President-Elect of the Rotary Club of South River-East Brunswick. He and his wife Connie, reside in Freehold.

Less than 1 percent of wealth managers in the New Jersey area have received this honor for 2012 from the FIVE STAR Wealth Manager Award Program. Five Star Professional relied on a range of sources, including firms, peers, regulatory authorities and consumers, in order to identify wealth managers who provide quality services to their clients.

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