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Michael Faherty

Senior Vice President, Institutional Services (Argent Trust) & Executive Vice President, Client Relations (FSI)

B.S. (Finance), Louisiana State University

 

Michael joined Argent Trust in 2021 and joined FSI in 2024 in a blended role. He has more than 20 years of experience working with retirement plans, as well as investments for corporations and nonprofits. He has more than seven years of experience in the deathcare industry. In his blended role with both FSI and Argent, Michael brings the benefits of both companies to current and future clients, including sharing more options in investments and recordkeeping for preneed contracts for funeral homes and cemeteries, as well as cemetery endowment care needs.

Prior to Argent, he worked at Regions Bank, where he had served as institutional trust strategist/senior vice president since 2016 and has been an employee since 2003. At Regions, he was responsible for all new business development within the bank’s institutional trust department for the entire Louisiana market, as well as the Gulf Coast from Louisiana to Panama City, Florida. He was also lead consultant for the bank’s largest and most important institutional trust clients throughout Louisiana and the Gulf Coast.

 

New Orleans

201 St. Charles Ave. Suite 2420, New Orleans, LA 70170

(504) 291-8800

Baton Rouge

4224 Bluebonnet Blvd. Suite A, Baton Rouge, LA 70809

(225) 372-1903

201 St. Charles Ave. Suite 2420, New Orleans, LA 70170

Provided Services

Custody & Escrow Services

Custody & Escrow Services

Argent’s institutional services team has more than 30 years of experience serving public funds, unions/Taft Hartley, financial institutions, corporations, healthcare providers, insurance companies, governments, non-profits and family offices.

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Retirement Plan Consulting

Retirement Plan Consulting

Argent Retirement Plan Advisors is a Registered Investment Advisor with the SEC that specializes in fiduciary and investment advisory services for retirement plan sponsors.

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