Investment Services

Westamerica Bank contracts with Sorrento Pacific Financial* (SPF**) to offer investment services to our customers. We offer complimentary, no obligation financial reviews to Westamerica customers with licensed SPF* Financial Advisors right in your local branch. Advisors can provide you with guidance based on your unique situation and can help you create a financial plan to help you reach your retirement goals.

Our SPF* advisors will review your current financial plan and can offer the following financial services:

• Retirement planning and income strategies
  
  
• IRA, 401(k), 402(b), 457 plans and TSP Rollover options
  
  
• Life and long-term care insurance

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To learn more about retirement planning, contact your local branch today to schedule a complimentary, no-obligation appointment.

*Westamerica Bank partners with Sorrento Pacific Financial, LLC (SPF) to support the delivery of investment services. SPF is a subsidiary of Atria Wealth Solutions, which has agreed to be purchased by LPL Holdings, Inc. (LPL). The transaction is expected to close in the second half of 2024. At the time the transaction closes, LPL will then own SPF.

Approximately one month before the deal closes, you may receive a negative consent letter by mail. These letters are standard regulatory disclosures designed to provide you with all the necessary information about the upcoming changes and to obtain your consent by default unless you express otherwise. 

Click here for FAQs related to the transition to LPL (pdf).

The transaction is not expected to result in any immediate change to clients’ relationship with their financial professionals, the fees paid, the investments in their accounts or the custodian where investment assets are held.

There are additional items pertaining to this change that will occur in 2025, which we will inform you of as we approach those dates. Upon receiving a negative consent letter, no action is required from you.

**Non-deposit investment products and services are off­ered through Sorrento Pacific Financial, LLC (“SPF”), a registered broker-dealer (Member FINRA/SIPC) and SEC Registered Investment Advisor. Products o­ffered through SPF: are not FDIC or otherwise federally insured, are not a deposit or guarantee of the Bank, and may involve investment risk including possible loss of principal. Investment Representatives are registered through SPF. The Bank has contracted with SPF to make non-deposit investment products and services available to Bank clients.

Registered Representatives are registered to conduct securities business and licensed to conduct insurance business in limited states. Response to, or contact with, residents of other states will be made only upon compliance with applicable licensing and registration requirements. The information in this website is for U.S. residents only and does not constitute an offer to sell, or a solicitation of an offer to purchase brokerage services to persons outside of the United States.