“It will also allow Four Seasons to provide year-round, hands-on financial advice to the firm's significant number of St Louis-area clients who reside in the Naples area several months or more throughout the year,” it said.

Stephen Wedel, founding partner of Four Seasons, and Marney Skinner, an accredited asset management specialist, will head up the new branch.

Four Seasons was founded in 1983 and provides retirement planning, investment strategy, risk management, estate planning, education funding and tax planning.