H.D. Vest to Focus on Practice Management Training for Top Advisors

For Immediate Release

PR Contact: Susan Patrick
H.D. Vest Communications Consultant
(972) 870-6149
susan.h.patrick@wellsfargo.com
www.hdvest.com

August 12, 2008 – Irving, TX – H.D. Vest Financial Services^® (H.D. Vest) will invite its top 600 Advisors to participate in the second H.D. Vest Elite Academy^SM, an intense practice management training conference. The 2008 H.D. Vest Elite Academy will take place in Seattle, WA, at the Sheraton Seattle Hotel September 2-5.  H.D. Vest is one of the oldest and largest independent financial services firms specializing in training and supporting tax professionals with over 5,400 independent Advisor affiliates.

“The inaugural H.D. Vest Elite Academy was a huge success with impressive results,” stated Roger Ochs, president of H.D. Vest. “Because of this amazing success, we have once again partnered with Cannon Financial Institute to deliver world-class advanced practice management training to help our top Advisors better connect with their clients and provide them with the service they deserve.”

H.D. Vest Elite Academy 2008 participants can choose from two tracks of study: Mastering the Practice of Advice and Constructing Your Client Experience. The Mastering the Practice of Advice track will focus on how to implement the 8 Wealth Management Issues^SM process. Constructing Your Client Experience is the updated original track offered at the 2007 H.D. Vest Elite Academy. Participants will also be given many opportunities to network with their peers to trade best practices. H.D. Vest created and launched the H.D. Vest Elite Academy conference in 2007 after researching Advisors’ greatest practice management needs and opportunities.

About H.D. Vest, Inc.

Based in Irving Texas, since its inception in 1983, H.D. Vest Financial Services supports an independent network of tax and non-tax professionals who distribute comprehensive financial planning solutions, including securities, insurance, money management services and Wells Fargo banking products. Approximately 5,400 independent contractors manage over $30 billion in assets for some 1.8 million individuals, families and small businesses in all 50 states. H.D. Vest became a non-bank subsidiary of Wells Fargo & Company in July 2001.

About Cannon Financial

Cannon Financial is a premier strategic training and consulting partner for the financial services industry. Cannon helps financial services professionals and support staff “go to the next level” in helping clients improve their financial well being and in delivering an unsurpassed client experience and creating an accelerated revenue boost for themselves and their financial institutions. Cannon delivers training solutions that are focused, relevant and strategically valuable, providing financial professionals with the knowledge and the skills to address client issues from the client’s perspective.

Cannon’s professional staff comes from successful careers in a cross-section of the financial services industry, including business and commercial banking, retail banking, private banking, wealth management and fiduciary services, retirement plan services, operations, compliance, brokerage, insurance, and investment management. Hundreds of the most successful financial services firms worldwide are engaged with Cannon’s trainers and consultants. Cannon’s programs include Sales Management, and Sales and Relationship Management including the areas of prospecting, presenting and closing. Additionally, technical financial concepts and product training is offered in all areas of Banking, Trust, Brokerage, Investment Management, Operations, Tax, Compliance, Institutional Sales, and Retirement Services.

Securities offered through H.D. Vest Investment Services^SM , Member SIPC,
Advisory services offered through H.D. Vest Advisory Services^SM ,
non-bank subsidiaries of Wells Fargo & Company,
6333 N. State Highway 161, Suite 400, Irving, TX 75038 (972) 870-6000.