Closing brokerage accounts before starting in IB?

If you want to play safe and avoid any conflicts of interest, should you close your trading account preemptively and open a mutual fund/ETF account through your firm or are you given the chance to roll over your holdings when starting? Would prefer not to liquidate my holdings now given market.

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