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United Community Bank today announced that its Advisory Services division will expand through the acquisition of FinTrust Capital Partners and its operating subsidiaries, FinTrust Capital Advisors LLC, FinTrust Capital Benefit Group LLC and FinTrust Brokerage Service LLC.
FinTrust is a 13-year-old employee-owned investment advisory firm headquartered in Greenville with additional locations in Anderson, as well as the Georgia cities of Athens and Macon. The firm, which provides wealth and investment management services to individuals and institutions, had $2 billion in assets under management across its advisory, retirement planning and brokerage businesses at the end of March, according to a news release.
After almost 20 years, Mike Switzer retired from Wells Fargo Securities in 2001 as Senior Vice President/Investment Officer and Certified Portfolio Manager. In 1999, he and his wife, Maggie, purchased and operated for eight years the Baskin Robbins ice cream store on Forest Drive in Columbia. They grew the store from a bottom-tier operation in the Baskin Robbins franchise system to one in the top 5% nationwide within three years, tripling sales along the way. While operating the ice cream store, Mike and Maggie received patents for a portable ice cream sink and fold-down sneezeguard they invented and in 2002 started Magnolia Carts, an ice cream cart manufacturing company, which they sold in 2013.
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