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Robert Beck is licensed in FL, GA, MD, NC, NJ, NV, PA, SC, TX and VA to offer insurance products, life insurance (including variable life), annuities (including variable annuities), and is registered to offer securities and advisory services through Principal Securities, Inc. In FL, GA, LA, MD, NC, PA, SC, TX and VA.

Janet Smithbower is licensed in MD, PA and SC to offer insurance products, life insurance (including variable life), annuities (including variable annuities), and is registered to offer securities and advisory services through Principal Securities, Inc. In CA, CO, FL, GA, IL, LA, MD, NC, NJ, NV, OH, PA, SC, TX, VA, WA and WV.

Jesse Ickes is licensed in CO, NC, NJ, OH, PA, SC, TN, TX, VA, WI and WV to offer insurance products, life insurance (including variable life), annuities (including variable annuities), and is registered to offer securities and advisory services through Principal Securities, Inc. In CA, CO, DC, FL, GA, IL, IN, LA, MD, ME, MI, MT, NC, NJ, NV, NY, OH, PA, SC, TN, TX, VA, WA and WV.

​AIF® (Accredited Investment Fiduciary®) is an educational designation only, obtained by the holder by completing the requisite coursework. The AIF Designation does not mean the holder is acting in a fiduciary capacity.

This site is not a solicitation of interest in any of these products in any other state.

IMPORTANT CONSUMER INFORMATION: Representatives of Beck, Smithbower, Ickes Financial, LLC may only transact business in a particular state after licensure or satisfying qualifications requirements of that state, or only if they are excluded or exempted from the state's registration requirements.  Follow-up, individualized responses to consumers in a particular state Beck, Smithbower, Ickes Financial, LLC Representatives that involve either the effecting or attempting to effect transactions in securities or the rendering of personalized invest advice for compensation, as the case may be, shall not be made without first complying with the state's requirements, or pursuant to an applicable state exemption or exclusion.  For information concerning the licensure status or disciplinary history of a broker-dealer, investment adviser, BD agent, or IA representative or any financial institution they represents, contact your state securities law administrator.

Insurance products issued by Principal National Life Insurance Company (except in NY), Principal Life Insurance Company® and the companies available through the Preferred Product Network, Inc.  Securities and advisory products offered through Principal Securities, Inc., Member SIPC.  Referenced companies are members of the Principal Financial Group®, Des Moines, IA 50392.  Robert Beck, Janet Smithbower, Principal National and Principal Life Financial Representatives, Principal Securities Registered Representatives, Financial Advisors.  Jesse Ickes, Principal Securities Registered Representative, Financial Advisor.   Beck, Smithbower, Ickes Financial, LLC is not an affiliate of any company of the Principal Financial Group®. 

Principal Life maintains certificates of authority to transact insurance in all 50 states.  Principal Life NAIC identification number is 61271.  Principal National NAIC identification number is 71161.