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Welcome Austen Hawkey

Oct 1, 2022

2 min read


VOLUME 14 | ISSUE 4


Please join me in welcoming Austen Hawkey, CPA, CFP® as the newest member of our team at Armor Investment Advisors. Austen is a perfect addition to our team. He graduated from Campbell University with a Bachelor of Business Administration in Trust and Wealth Management as well as a minor in Financial Planning and he has earned a Master of Accounting from the UNC Kenan Flagler Business School. In addition to being a CPA, Austen has earned his CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ mark.


Austen Hawkey, CPA, CFP®

Austen’s education and seventeen years of experience in the profession have prepared him to guide clients through the most complex financial situations. He has extensive experience working with High Net Worth and Ultra High Net Worth families on comprehensive wealth planning including business succession planning, pre and post retirement planning, and philanthropic and gifting strategies.


Even more importantly, Austen brings a passion for making a positive impact on the lives of clients and for building a great business spanning multiple generations. My connection to Austen and his family reaches back across the generations.


In January 1949, my grandfather Al Purrington Jr. who was one of Raleigh’s leading business attorneys worked with his neighbor William Morris to start a new corporation “in the business of ventilating, air conditioning, refrigerating, humidifying, heating, and plumbing.” My grandfather served on the board of ‘Morris and Gorrell, Inc.’, later ‘Morris & Associates, Inc.’, for several decades.


Later my father (Al III) took his father’s place as firm counsel and on the board at Morris & Associates. William’s son Bill followed his father as CEO and the company has flourished under his leadership. Bill and Al III worked together for many years and shared tremendous mutual respect.


Bill connected me with his son-in-law Austen several years ago and I have followed his career from PNC Wealth Management to Bank of America Private Bank where he served as a Wealth Strategies Advisor to many of the bank’s Ultra High Net Worth clients.


Seventy-three years since that first venture, I am honored to continue the legacy into the third generation by welcoming Austen to our team at Armor Investment Advisors. Austen and his wife Rachael live in Raleigh where their twin seven-year-old daughters and four-year-old son keep them on their toes. We are excited to welcome them all to the Armor family.

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