Neither rankings and/or recognitions by unaffiliated rating services, publications, media, or other organizations, nor the achievement of any professional designation, certification, degree, or license, or any amount of prior experience or success, should not be construed by a client or prospective client as a guarantee that he/she will experience a certain level of results if Savant is engaged, or continues to be engaged, to provide investment advisory services. Unless expressly indicated to the contrary, Savant did not pay a fee to be included on any such ranking. No ranking or recognition should be construed as a current or past endorsement or testimonial of Savant by any of its clients.

Hall of Fame award recipients were selected based on a questionnaire of more than 100 questions about their practices, including assets under management and the revenue collected on those assets, industry designations possessed, regulatory records, length of time in the industry, charitable and philanthropic work, the investment vehicles they use to allocate assets, the sizes and shapes of their teams, and more. The rankings specifically do not factor in investment performance, as returns are tied inextricably to the risk tolerances of individual clients; to reward outsize returns would be to encourage advisors to chase them. Instead, Barron’s uses assets and revenue as their primary quantitative measures, as clients tend to express their satisfaction by voting with their assets and their fees. Rankings were published in October 2019. Savant did not pay a fee to be included in this ranking.