National Planning Holdings Inc., a Santa Monica, Calif., broker-dealer unit of Prudential PLC of London, said its third-quarter earnings rose 9.6% from a year earlier, to $117 million.
Sales rose 15%, to more than $2.78 billion, the broker-dealer said Monday.
For the first nine months of the year, National Planning said, its revenue rose 17.4% from the same period last year, to $368 million, while its sales rose 23%, to $8.87 billion.
For the third quarter, the firm's roster of registered representatives rose 5% from a year earlier. As of Sept. 30 it had more than 2,600 affiliated financial professionals.










