Gentry "Ed" Porter, ChFC®, CLU

PARTNER
Greenville, NC

Ed understands that now, more than ever, his clients need to plan for their future financial security. Hardworking & loyal, Ed treats each of his clients like family and cares for their entire wellbeing.

Before joining the Sound Partners family, Ed graduated from East Carolina University and taught marketing & business courses for 6 years. He began working for his current broker-dealer, now Equitable Advisors, in 1982 and joined our team in 2015. Ed understands that clients, today more than ever, need to save for their future security.

Focusing on life insurance, retirement planning, annuities, employee benefit planning and health insurance, Ed works diligently to treat all of his clients like family and look out for their total wellbeing. He values how the Sound Partners team shares the same core values and their family of financial advisors that work to serve the families of their clients both now and for generations to come.

Ed and his wife Bonnie have been married for 51 years. They have 3 sons and eleven grandchildren. Their whole life centers around their faith and their family of which all his clients are a part.

AR License #642053

Focus

  • Life Insurance

  • Retirement Planning

  • Annuities

  • Employee Benefit Planning

  • Health Insurance

You deserve the peace of mind that Sound Partners provides.

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PPG-5453094.1 (3/23) (Exp. 3/27)

The Retirement Planning Specialist title is awarded by Equitable Advisors, based upon the Financial Professional's (FP) receipt of a Certificate in Retirement Planning from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. In a collaboration between the Wharton School and Equitable Advisors' affiliated life insurance carrier, coursework for the certificate was developed exclusively for Equitable Advisors FPs, and the title may be used only by FPs who have completed the required coursework and maintain the title through ongoing continuing education requirements. To verify that an FP has earned and holds the title in good standing, contact us at atretirement@equitable.com. Complaints about an Equitable Advisors FP should be directed to customer.relations@equitable.com.

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