HighTower’s Pagnato Karp group has launched PK Asset Protection, led by director Samantha Young.

HighTower’s Pagnato Karp group has launched PK Asset Protection, led by director Samantha Young.

Pagnato Karp was founded by Paul Pagnato and serves ultra-affluent individuals, families and their business.

Through PK Asset Protection, clients will be provided with estate planning, executive bonus plans, dynasty trusts and buy-sell funding.

The Pagnato-Karp Group oversees more than $2 billion in client assets and also offers custom stock portfolios, indexes and direct private investment opportunities.

At the end of February, the firm recruited Amanda Knott as director of financial planning, working with the group’s family office solutions team.

HighTower is an advisor-owned financial services company serving high net worth and institutional clients. The company is headquartered in Chicago, IL, but has corporate centers in New York and San Francisco, CA, as well as other offices across the US.