Becca's back.(Whispers)(Rebecca Garner)(Brief article)

Just a little more than a year after moving to Blytheville for a change of pace, one of the state's top financial intellects is moving back to northwest Arkansas.

SEC-registered investment adviser Rebecca Garner expects to be back full time in the area by mid-September.

Garner, you may recall, moved to Fayetteville in 1994 to manage money for Alice Walton's Llama Co., before the company was dissolved and she created Garner Asset Management in 1998.

Garner sold GAM to Tom Garrison in February 2005 and left the new firm in April 2007 to join Decatur, Ill.-based Investment Planners Inc., a former institutional client of Garrison Asset Management (which is the newest incarnation of the firm). When she left GAM, the firm had more than 196 accounts and $265.7 million in assets under management.

She still works for IPI, because all she needs is a Bloomberg computer and the ability to travel on occasion.

We hear the Smackover native has her eyes set on a homestead in West Fork--a place complete with a mirrored disco ball--though the papers aren't yet signed. She cited the pending birth of a grandchild and her daughter's new business as two prime reasons for her return.

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