Robert
Telford
President of The Advanced Financial Group
Specialties: Investments, Retirement
Planning, Annuities, Group and Individual Insurance
Licenses: Series 7 – General Securities
Representative; Series 63 — Uniform Securities Agent
State Law; Series 24 — General Securities Principal
Agent with Woodlands Asset Management, Inc.,
Registered Investment Advisory Firm
Registered Representative with Woodlands Securities
Corp.
Robert’s professional affiliations include: Grand
Council member of the Texas Leaders Round Table and
a member of the Top of the Table, a prestigious
designation from the Million Dollar Round Table.
He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in business
accounting from Stephen F. Austin State University.
He served two years with the U.S. Army, spending one
year, 1967-68, in Vietnam.
Formerly an executive vice president of a local
savings and loan, Robert used that experience to
move into the insurance industry. He entered the
industry with the purchase of the Lufkin office of
American General Life Insurance. In 1991, he used
his extensive financial expertise to expand his
insurance business into a full-service financial
services company and renamed it The Advanced
Financial Group.
Robert’s community involvement includes helping high
school students achieve their goals of going to
college. He works with the Lufkin High School Alumni
Association, an organization devoted to obtaining
financial assistance to students wanting to go to
college. He also has advanced students’ interests by
having served 12 years on the Lufkin Independent
School District Board.
Other community activities include having coached
youth baseball and served as president of the local
youth baseball association, as well as being a past
president of the Lufkin Kiwanis Club.
Currently, Robert is chairing the Angelina County
Appraisal District Board and was formerly a chairman
of the Board of Trustees of Lufkin’s First Baptist
Church.
The Advanced Financial Group
1101 S. Chestnut ▪ Lufkin Texas 75901
BUS: 936.634.3378 ▪ 888.835.3673 ▪ FAX:
936.639.4776 Securities offered
through
Woodlands Securities Corporation -
Member FINRA and SIPC |