Pensionmark Hires Curley to Oversee Compliance

Pensionmark Financial Group appointed Jonathan Curley to the newly created role of global head of compliance, the firm announced this week in a press release.

Curley will be responsible for managing global strategies across all Pensionmark financial services companies, Jennifer Tanck, executive vice president and chief compliance officer at Pensionmark, wrote in an email.

Insurance brokerage World Insurance Associates, based in Iselin, New Jersey, acquired Pensionmark in 2022. Pensionmark is the financial services division for parent company World Insurance Associates. 

“As Pensionmark expends its footprint through acquisitions, we wanted to bring someone in who would be responsible for the financial services vertical in its entirety, including Pensionmark and other firms that we acquire which may initially be run independent of Pensionmark,” Tanck explains. 

Extensive experience with mergers and acquisitions and compliance make Curley an “ideal” fit for the new role, she adds.  

Curley’s duties will include overseeing global compliance strategy across all the financial services firms under the World Insurance Associates umbrella as well as being as the firm’s primary regulatory liaison with the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Tanck explains.

Curley’s new role at Pensionmark grew from the need to have central oversight over World Insurance Associates’ different financial services firms, both those acquired before and after the Pensionmark acquisition in May 2022, says Tanck. 

The role was designed to bring additional “intellectual capital” for compliance due diligence on potential acquisition targets, Tanck explains. 

Curley will report to Pensionmark CEO Troy Hammond, Tanck says.

“Jon’s expertise will prove invaluable to our growth and compliance initiatives for both our existing and new partners,” Hammond stated in the press release.

Curley had been a senior adviser at boutique investment bank ButcherJoseph & Co. Before that, he was the CEO and founder of Laffer Tengler Investments, a registered investment adviser owned by ButcherJoseph Financial Holdings, according to the press release.

The Pensionmark Financial Group network represents more than 345 financial advisers and staff across 67 locations in the United States, according to the release.