What We Do
Wealth Management
Research
Alternate Investments
Our History
1966
George F. Ewing founds George F. Ewing Insurance with an emphasis on Life Insurance, 401k management and Mutual Funds.
1973
George F. Ewing Insurance becomes affiliated with Sun Life of Canada.
1982
The agency expands its services to include Property Casualty Insurance.
1998
George F. Ewing Insurance is renamed First Franklin Financial Services in honor of George’s father, Leonard Franklin Ewing, the “First Franklin.”
2000
Brett F. Ewing moves back to Tallahassee and joins the firm.
2008
Brett takes over operations of First Franklin, the firm earns its first Quantum Leap Award.
2009
George retires but remains at the firm to act as Comptroller.
2011
The firm acquires its Palm Coast branch and partners with the Florida division of Burke Financial and begins releasing its economic research to the public
2013
First Franklin earns the Top Advisory Firm Award.
2014
First Franklin wins its second Quantum Leap Award.
2015
First Franklin wins its second Top Advisory Firm Award and the firms first MVP of the Year Award.
2016
The firm receives nationwide coverage in the Wall Street Journal, Investment News and USA Today.
2017
First Franklin wins its fourth consecutive Top Advisory award. The firm is featured on Fox Business News and CNBC Asia.
FIRST FRANKLIN IN THE NEWS AND MARKET COMMENTARY
China isn’t prepared for a trade war with America.
China Will Lose The Trade War With America, And That’s Good For Its Citizens China isn’t well prepared to fight a trade war with America. For a couple of reasons. One of them is that its economy...
Wall Street has Other Things to Worry about Besides Trade Tariffs
“The question will be whether Trump will accept reduced tariffs and a gradual change in the joint-venture rules in China for a PR win or if he will push for more real change that Xi cannot...
Brett Ewing on Nikkei CNBC Japan
Barring a FED misstep, we continue to believe we are in a global economic expansion that started in 2016. This expansion has been given pause by trade wars and a rising dollar, both of which we...
