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The Financial Advisors of Wayne Hummer Investments offer comprehensive brokerage and insurance solutions and have been providing trusted financial advice to individuals, their families, and institutions since 1931. We have access to a vast range of investment products and services, bring to bear the power of world-class research, and provide access to global securities markets, structured products, and sophisticated fee-based investment programs.
To help put your cash to work, we offer our Insured Bank Deposit™ Program. This special deposit product comes with competitive rates, FDIC insurance up to $3.75 million, and immediate liquidity. Finally, to ensure that your assets are best positioned to help you achieve your goals, our Financial Advisors utilize our own Comprehensive Financial Review™ process to develop a sound investment plan designed specifically around you.


The Portfolio Managers of Great Lakes Advisors offer customized, proprietary asset management services to private clients. Dedicated Portfolio Managers work with you and your financial professionals to design a tailored investment portfolio utilizing sophisticated risk analytics and asset allocation models to ensure your discretionary account is constructed and managed in accordance with your unique, long-term objectives.
Great Lakes Advisors also provides sophisticated investment management to institutional clients. Using a common philosophy designed to achieve superior performance with less risk, along with a successful process for implementing that philosophy, their institutional group manages the assets of a wide range of clients including Police and Firefighters’ Pension Funds, religious organizations, foundations, and endowments.
Advanced Investment Partners (AIP) offers quantitative investment management solutions to institutional clients. Founded in 1996, AIP applies an investment process that combines fundamental stock selection criteria with systematic, quantitative analyses to manage active, benchmark-sensitive portfolios across the size and style spectrum.
The Chicago Trust Company’s professionals have proudly served the trust and estate planning needs of individuals and institutions throughout the Chicago area for nearly a generation. We serve as corporate trustee or successor trustee for many of our clients and are available to be named into new or existing estate plans.
Our talented team of Trust Administrators has an average of over 20 years of industry experience and delivers their services with great care, personal attention, and integrity.
We partner with the banking professionals of our parent company, Wintrust Financial Corporation, to provide you with comprehensive deposit, lending, and treasury management services to meet the entirety of your financial needs.
With over 100 community bank locations throughout the greater Chicago and southern Wisconsin areas, there is a Wintrust banker near you to provide community banking services, mortgages, home equity loans and lines, commercial lending, treasury management, and complex specialty financial services.