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January 28, 2012 @ 07:05 AM

Dow Jones Industrials 12,660.46- 74.17
Dow Jones Transportation 5,344.78+ 41.93
Dow Jones Utilities 447.97- 6.07
Nasdaq Composite 2,816.55+ 11.27
Nasdaq 100 2,461.77+ 7.14
S&P 500 1,316.33- 2.10
S&P 100 595.37- 1.25
S&P Mid-Cap 400 942.11+ 4.59
NYSE Composite 7,876.61- 7.29
AMEX Composite 2,356.42+ 3.15
10 Year Treasury Note 1.90- 0.03
Wilshire 5000 13,819.49+ 3.22

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AXA Advisors, LLC

Welcome!

At the Great Lakes Branch of AXA Advisors, we are committed to providing our clients with appropriate financial advice and products, all followed by quality financial service support.  Our financial professionals focus on helping individual clients, local businesses, large corporations and local state educational districts and municipalities meet a variety of financial needs.

We believe in lifestyle planning.  Our financial professionals will help you through every stage of your financial life cycle - from when you start your first full-time job all the way to when you are considering retirement and all the many stages in-between.  We are an established leader in helping individuals and businesses address their financial planning, investment services and risk management needs.  While working with one of our financial professionals, your planning process will include: discovery of your situation, profile of your priorities and then finally, creation and implementation of a strategy.  Regular reviews will play an important part in making sure that throughout the years the strategies we implement remain consistent with your goals.

Beginning as the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States, AXA Equitable has had a presence in Michigan since 1859.  The company is committed to the State of Michigan!  This commitment to give back to the community is demonstrated by the two annual scholarships that AXA Equitable offers to high school seniors - the National AXA Achievement Scholarship and the Community AXA Achievement Scholarship.  In addition, AXA Equitable sponsors the AXA Day of Service event in support of local charities and moreover, many AXA Advisors financial professionals take active roles in a wide variety of local non-profit groups.

As one of the nation's premier financial service organizations, AXA Advisors also provides career opportunities for highly motivated and enthusiastic individuals seeking an entrepreneurial challenge and who have the desire to help others toward achieving their financial goals.  To find out more about these opportunities, visit the career web page on this site, click Professional Opportunities

To find out how the Great Lakes Branch of AXA Advisors may be able to help you reach your financial goals or to explore exciting new career opportunities, please feel free to send us an e-mail, call us at the number provided on this home page, or register for a no-obligation consultation right here on our web site!

Finally, our branch headquarters is located in Troy, Michigan with additional branch offices in Saginaw and Grand Rapids.

Thank you for visiting our web site!

Sincerely,

Benjamin Hudson and Timothy Mackie, ChFC, CLU

 

A Name You Can Count On:

  1. AXA is one of 100 (#53) companies listed in the 2011 Best Global Brands, according to Interbrand - www.BestGlobalBrands.com
  2. AXA is #14 on the 2011 Fortune Global 500 "World's Largest Corporations" (July 8, 2011).
  3. AXA is among one of 350 global companies cited on the 2011 Fortune "World's Most Admired Companies".  AXA is #7 in the Insurance: Life and Health category of this listing (March 21, 2011).
  4. In 2011, AXA made the ninth edition of America's Greatest Brands, a yearly published book - www.AmericasGreatestBrands.com
  5. AXA was listed in the 2010 Top 100 Global Marketers according to Advertising Age's DataCenter.
  6. Through the AXA Foundation's AXA Achievement program, AXA Advisors has distributed more then $250,000 in college scholarships to Michigan students, since 2003.
  7. During the 2010-2011 school year and through the AXA Foundation's AXA Achievement program, the AXA Advisors LLC Great Lakes Branch has given out $30,000 in college scholarships to 11 Michigan high school seniors.
  8. AXA Foundation in partnership with the PTA "Take Your Family to School Week" Program.  The Great Lakes Branch National Winners: 2009 Crocket High School, Detroit, MI and 2010 Martin Luther King, Jr. High School, Detroit, MI.
  9. In 2011 AXA Equitable has been awarded the 48th spot on Diversity Inc.'s Top 50 Companies for Diversity - www.DiversityInc.com

 

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