About

Through tailored and timely financial and investment advice, our goal is to help clients succeed financially and work toward their life goals. Whether you’re in the early stages of building wealth or facing complex retirement- or estate-planning choices later in life, we’re ready and equipped to help you make decisions for your future.

Meet Our Team

Churchill Garter, MBA

Senior Financial Advisor
First Vice President - Investments

Phone Number

(804) 697-6738

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Churchill strives to help individuals and families build, manage, preserve, and transition their wealth through a holistic approach. He guides each client to create a tailored investment plan focusing on their objectives, both for today and for the future. Churchill wants each client to live the one life they have in the best way they can, achieving their desired goals and working to help reduce their investment risk.

He enjoys helping clients plan for their retirement, and advising what they should continue doing or what they may need to change in order to work towards achieving their goals. Churchill finds it rewarding to watch them engage in the process of planning for their today and their tomorrow. He builds long-term relationships with each client by listening to what’s most important to you. Armed with this information, Churchill makes recommendations that match your needs, and working together, create an investment plan designed to meet those needs. He believes that open lines of communication are key to building a relationship of trust, and he prides himself in delivering impeccable client service.

Churchill employs a comprehensive approach to each client’s personal situation incorporating a wide range of topics from life insurance and long-term care, liability management needs, and Social Security and Medicare eligibility. It is his goal to help ensure you are prepare for all of life’s events.

He earned his Bachelor’s degree from Randolph-Macon College and received his Master of Business Administration in 2005 from Strayer University.

Churchill is a Richmond native and spending time with his family is his biggest priority.  Together they capitalizes on the adventures available on and around the James River.  Whenever possible you can find Churchill and his family enjoying a variety of activities from kayaking, hiking, running, sailing, skiing, and playing golf. They also have a shared passion for baseball and soccer and are up for anything—just watching or actually playing. He truly loves everything that Richmond offers and would not want to live or work anywhere else.

Certificates

MBA

Apryl K. Halstead

Senior Financial Advisor
Associate Vice President – Investments

Phone Number

(804) 697-7686

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Apryl’s mission as a Financial Advisor is to provide clients with targeted, comprehensive financial advice and portfolio strategies, delivered with personal service and professional integrity.

As a former small-business owner, she enjoys helping run the team and giving input on strategic planning and business development.

Apryl purchased her first business in 1983, and first worked within the financial services industry in the early 1990s.  She has owned four businesses throughout her career, as well as being a licensed real estate broker. Although in her current role she cannot offer these services, the experiences provide a personal level of expertise and empathy for her clients.

She joined our Wells Fargo Advisors team when Senior Financial Advisor, Bryan Halstead, asked her to come onboard to focus on growing the business as a Marketing Client Associate. In addition to developing the team, she found her next career and became a Financial Advisor.

Apryl works with her clients to develop goals and execute investment plans as they transition between different life stages. Whether you are a young professional just learning to manage your financial resources, or a client in midlife laying the groundwork for retirement, or an elder planning on behalf of beneficiaries, Apryl is ready to meet and offer the guidance you need as you look to the future.

Away from the office, Apryl enjoys serving as chapter head of “The W Source", a growing national network of dedicated professional women designed to facilitate collaboration through local community connections, particularly of women who are suddenly single through divorce or becoming widowed. She also enjoys reading, writing, painting, and spending time with her family, which includes six adult children five of which are married and fifteen grandchildren.