William Anthony Phillips

Employer firm

Summit Financial, LLC CRD 299322

$22.5B regulatory AUM 59 advisory clients

Reported services (Item 5G)

• Financial planning
• Portfolio management (individuals)
• Pension consulting
• Selection of other advisers

From the firm’s Form ADV. Read the guides:

• Item 5F — Regulatory AUM
• Item 5G — Advisory services
• Full firm profile

Current Employers

Employment History

• 09/2014 → 12/2025
  Cambridge Investment Research
  Fairfield, IA
• 09/2014 → 04/2026
  William A. Phillips Financial Services
  Washington, DC
• 10/2014 → 12/2019
  Cambridge Investment Research Advisors, Inc
  Fairfield, IA
• 11/2025 → Present
  Summit Financial, Llc Dba Phillips Financial Strategies
  Parsippany, NJ
• 01/2026 → Present
  Purshe Kaplan Sterling Investments
  Albany, NY

Previous Registrations

• 2019-10-23 → 2026-03-30
  Phillips Financial Strategies Llc
  Washington, DC
  Washington, DC
  Pensacola, FL
• 2014-10-03 → 2019-12-26
  Cambridge Investment Research Advisors, Inc.
  Washington, DC
• 2008-05-05 → 2014-10-01
  Equitable Advisors, Llc
  Falls Church, VA

Other Businesses

1) Summit Financial dba Phillips Financial Strategies; Yes; At Registered Location; RIA; IAR; 11/2025; 160; 130; Planner, trader, etc. 2) Fixed Insurance; No; At Registered Location; Traditional/Fixed Insurance; Agent; 11/2025; 10; 10; Sales of Traditional/Fixed Insurance products. 3) DC Healthlink; No; 700 Pennsylvania Ave SE Suite 200 Washington, DC 20003; Fixed Insurance/Annuity; Insurance Broker; 01/2013; 5; 5; Provide health insurance services on the DChealthlink website. 4) Big Sky Flakes, LLC; No; 4212 Spanish Trail Place Pensacola, FL 32504; Holding Company; Owner/Member; 12/2025; 5; 3; I am a partial owner in a ski condo in Big Sky Montana. I own the property with two other families. Periodically the property is rented and generates income. 5) Clean Energy Credits; No; 431 16th Street SE Washington, DC 20003; Clean Energy Credits; Owner; 10/2017; 1; 1; These are clean energy credits from solar panels on a house I used to own. 6) W&E Real Estate, LLC; No; 71 Rhode Island Ave NW Washington, DC 20001; Real Estate; Owner; 12/2021; 6; 4; This company collects rents and oversees leases within the building.

Exams

• S66 Uniform Combined State Law Examination
  2008-05-02

Other Names

• Bill Phillips
• Billy Phillips