Ambassador Advisors, LLC

Unlike some of our competitors, Ambassador Advisors does not require a minimum to open an account with us.

The best part of our office location is that it is an easy access point, convenient from Routes 81 and 17 (86)!

Convenient parking is available right in front or sides of our office building.

Our Binghamton office is a large brick building with a 1249 above the front doors. It is in the plaza at the light, directly behind a Wendy’s restaurant.

At the Ambassador Advisors office in Binghamton, NY, our multi-faceted team specializes in education, financial planning, life insurance protection, college planning and retirement planning.

Yes, we are proud to be built on Christian principles. You can read more here: https://www.ambassadoradvisors.com/why-choose-us/our-mission-and-values/

Our President, Robert Kauffman, founded the company in 1990, and we have been providing financial planning and money management services to clients for nearly 30 years. Ambassador Advisors manages nearly $400 million dollars for individuals, businesses, and nonprofit organizations, their employees, directors and donors.

We have been delivering services to a growing number of clients. We currently service over 3,000 businesses, organizations, and families. Although based in Lancaster, Ambassador actively serves clients throughout the Mid-Atlantic region and has clients in over 30 states.

Drop-in meetings are not preferred, as we like to take the time necessary to give the highest quality advice, possible. If you do need immediate help, however, you may call us or drop by if you’d like to speak with someone in person.

Most of our advisors regularly meet outside of our normal office hours. If you’d like to schedule a meeting with an advisor over the weekend, we suggest asking to speak with them directly, as their schedules vary.

Visit the Online Account Access page to log in to your account. From there, you can choose if you’d like to access an individual or consolidated statement, and it should prompt you to set up a user ID and password, if you haven’t already done so in the past. If you need further assistance, please do not hesitate to call our office.

Our financial advisors assess the financial needs of individuals and help them with investments (e.g. stocks and bonds), tax diversification, and insurance decisions. Our advisors help clients plan for their long-term goals, such as retirement. We do not create or help aid in budget planning, but we can recommend others to help with this process.

You may visit the Meet the Team portion of our website to see key areas that each individual focuses. You may also call in to the office to speak with the administrative staff about your needs. They are qualified to know who is best suited to help, and may be able to assist you themselves.

Our office is open Monday through Friday, from 8am until 5pm. Holiday hours vary and are subject to change. Our advisors, as previously mentioned, are often here outside of “normal” business hours, when clients request after-hour appointments.

In our Lancaster office, we have over 28 advisors and support staff. We also have advisors in our branch offices in Binghamton, NY and Painted Post, NY.

Preliminary consultations with one of our advisors is free of charge.

Yes, we do! We offer nearly every kind of insurance, outside of property and casualty insurance.

As a financial firm, we do not offer legal services to our clients. We do work closely with a law firm, Mitchell & Young, that does offer such services and we will happily refer you to them.

An exchange-traded fund (ETF) is a diversified collection of assets that can be bought and sold throughout the trading day. ETFs can be an easy-to-use, low cost, and tax-efficient way to invest your money.

A mutual fund is an investment vehicle made up of a pool of money collected from many investors for the purpose of investing in securities such as stocks, bonds, money market instruments and other areas for increased diversification and decreased risk.

A bond is a type of investment that serves as a loan from the investor to the government or company, with interest paid annually until the bond matures. The most common classifications of bonds are government bonds, municipal bonds, and corporate bonds.

A fixed annuity is a contract offered by an insurance company that is much like a bank CD. You deposit a certain amount of money and the insurer agrees to pay a certain interest rate over a specified period of time. A variable annuity differs from a fixed annuity in that inside a variable annuity are investments similar to mutual funds. These investments are called subaccounts, and the value varies based on the performance of the investments.

While there are similarities, there are tax advantages exchange traded funds (EFTs) hold over mutual funds. Both require shareholders to pay any tax due on income, dividends and short-term capital gains. However, shareholders of EFTs are much less likely to be subject to long-term capital gains distributions.

Whenever a mutual fund company passes earnings and other payouts to shareholders, they are known as a distribution. The tax treatment of these distributions varies depending on the type of distribution. If you hold shares in a taxable account, you are required to pay taxes on mutual fund distributions, whether the distributions are paid out in cash or reinvested in additional shares.