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Registered Rep. October 1, 2004 David A. Gaffen	From Top Dog to Compliance Monkey Many branch managers at full-service broker/dealers around the country have found in recent years that their old role as branch manager has diminished, as more business decisions are made by headquarters.
Registered Rep. July 13, 2010 Susan Konig	BOMs Work More, Earn Less In the 1970s through the early 1990s, plenty of financial advisors hoped one day to become branch managers.
Registered Rep. March 1, 2003 Sam Jaffe	Coaching in a Storm We spoke to dozens of the best branch office managers, from managers of tiny regional shops to lords of sprawling city offices. Their secret to success doesn't sound all that tough: work hard and pay attention to details.
Registered Rep. March 1, 2003 Andre Cappon	Okay, Team, Listen Up! Whether some reps like to acknowledge it, the branch office manager is vital to the success of a given branch.
Registered Rep. April 1, 2005 Erin Schulte	A Perilous Position? The duties of branch office managers (BOMs) have morphed from business strategist and rainmaker to compliance cop. The role, once considered a plum job and stepping stone up the corporate ladder, is increasingly being regarded as a risky, thankless task.
Registered Rep. July 1, 2005 Matt Barthel	Reinventing the Branch Manager The do-it-all BOM -- the guy who would mentor a financial office's young bucks, auditing their tickets and their client interactions all while recruiting and tending his own book -- is becoming obsolete in today's compliance-happy environment.
Registered Rep. April 11, 2011 Susan Konig	Can Producing While You Manage Make You Better at Both? Some producers are not a formidable producers until they become producing branch managers.
Registered Rep. March 1, 2006 Susan Konig	Female Branch Managers: Rare, and Maybe Getting Rarer While financial firms deserve credit for trying to move more women into management, there is now growing apprehension about the BOM role. With new demands on branch managers, women are wondering whether it's still a good career move.
Registered Rep. May 11, 2010 Susan Konig	Branch Managers, To Produce or Not to Produce? Or Take a Pay Cut? Consolidation is forcing branch managers out of the business, or, if they are lucky, they are being pushed back into production.
Registered Rep. May 1, 2008 Mindy Diamond	The Branch Manager Switch In today's turbulent markets, many financial advisors may want to give up a book of business and graduate to management, but that position also isn't as risk-free as they may think.
Registered Rep. December 13, 2010 Susan Konig	IBD and RIA Opportunities Arise For Branch Managers As the independent broker/dealer and RIA channels grow, they are creating a viable market for those displaced managers.
Registered Rep. July 1, 2006	Legends Historically, many reps aspired to management -- some to move up the ladder and climb into the executive suite. Here are four short profiles of some veteran professionals who have successfully helped their associates with their careers.
Registered Rep. January 10, 2011 Susan Konig	In Tough Year, Unearthing Opportunities For Branch Managers Shifts in the wealth management business could spell opportunity for those managers who are able to reinvent themselves.
Registered Rep. June 1, 2005 Matt Barthel	What 3012 Hath Wrought When the NASD released follow-up guidance on Conduct Rule 3012, it aimed to clarify how member firms must supervise the personal business of producing branch managers. Unfortunately, many firms remain confused about the rule's requirements.
Registered Rep. April 9, 2012 Susan Konig	An 'Old-School' Branch Manager in a Whole New World Building personal relationships with advisors and mentoring them -- the kind of work for which brand managers were once so admired -- is every bit as important today, despite the increased pile of administrative and managerial tasks that need to be completed.
Registered Rep. January 8, 2003 Ross Tucker	SIA Urges No Change to Branch Office Definition The SIA has expressed serious concerns over proposed changes by the NYSE and SEC that would alter the qualifications by which a broker/dealer office is considered a branch office.
Registered Rep. November 1, 2002 David A. Gaffen	Auditing Your Brokers When it comes to compliance these days, the message from regulators is clear: Attention must be paid.
Registered Rep. October 1, 2002 Andre Cappon	The Pygmalion Effect: The Branch Manager Sets the Tone Why are some brokerage offices within the same network consistently profitable while others are consistently unprofitable?
Registered Rep. January 11, 2010 Anne Field	Cop or Coach How can you be a cop and a coach at the same time? That's the challenge facing many branch managers these days.
Registered Rep. January 1, 2005 Mindy Diamond	A Clean Escape, With an Accomplice Brokers tempted to leap at a lucrative job at another firm are often held back by inertia, but in increasing numbers they are finding the powerful force they need to get moving: hungry branch managers.
Registered Rep. September 13, 2010 Susan Konig	Wirehouse Recruiting Stalls, Deals Keep Rising but Fewer Advisors Moving These days there are a lot more strings attached to recruiting packages and in the current market they're not great for brokers or firms.
Registered Rep. July 13, 2007 Susan Konig	Post Acquisition, A.G. Edwards BOMs Have Tough Job to Do With the Wachovia purchase of A.G. Edwards, it's not just A.G. Edwards reps (some of whom fear that the AGE corporate culture will change) who are worried. So are acquired firm's branch managers.
On Wall Street January 1, 2011	Recruiting's Next Big Challenge A conversation with industry headhunters about the job market for financial advisors.
Registered Rep. February 13, 2012 Susan Konig	Branch Managers Key to Team Building It's no secret that many branch managers feel their firms now view them more as "costly overhead" rather than as talented coaches and leaders who can greatly benefit their firms' bottom lines.
Registered Rep. March 1, 2003	Move Over Henry Higgins "Would the world ever have been made if its maker had been afraid of making trouble?" These words come from Henry Higgins in George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion, but they give voice to a central challenge in managing a brokerage branch.
Registered Rep. September 1, 2005 Anne Field	Competing Against a Colossus Sure, it's good to be the king, but what about everyone else? Fact is, life for other registered reps working in the shadow of a colossus isn't easy. Grabbing your share of the pie means some hard work and a willingness to think outside the box.
Registered Rep. August 30, 2002 Betsy Riley	Reps' Earnings Suffered Double-Digit Loss in 2001 The SIA surveyed 34 member-firms, finding a drop in broker earnings and a move toward fee-based business models.
On Wall Street March 1, 2010 Frances A. McMorris	Comparing Payouts And Recognizing Branch Managers Among those challenges facing branch managers looking to recruit the best and brightest advisors are the changes that brokerage firms made to their payout grids.
Registered Rep. December 12, 2011 Susan Konig	Recruiting Wars Heat Up in 2012 A confluence of factors has shrunk the pool of potential recruits for wirehouse firms, and that means competition for the best advisors is fierce.
Registered Rep. February 4, 2003 David A. Gaffen	Complexing Issue: Morgan Stanley Creating Bunches of Branches Morgan Stanley is requiring that an increasing number of its branch office managers begin producing. The move is an outgrowth of its office "complexing" strategy, which groups together multiple branches under a single manager.
Registered Rep. October 9, 2008	Smith Barney Closing Branches, Letting Managers Go As part of a larger cost-cutting effort, Smith Barney is consolidating some of its branch offices and laying off a number of its branch managers.
Registered Rep. December 1, 2004 Will Leitch	SOS It is an ominous time for small broker/dealers, for everyone from the chairman to the local rep. As always, the best way through the uncertainty is ingenuity.
Registered Rep. November 1, 2005 John Churchill	The Money Squeeze There's one thing that stands between the big retail brokerage firms and the high profit margins that the executives of these firms and their investors seek: the financial advisor.
Registered Rep. April 1, 2006 Kristen French	Compliance Costs: Double the Trouble In a study conducted in February of this year, the SIA found that annual industrywide compliance costs have nearly doubled in the past three years -- to $25 billion in 2005 from $13 billion in 2002, or 5% of the industry's annual net revenues.
Registered Rep. December 1, 2005	When to Blow What rights and/or obligations does the home office have to its representatives to maintain a support staff that is able to efficiently and correctly process the paperwork that is sent to them? Do you feel that the threat of legal action would be sufficient to finally get the attention needed?
On Wall Street November 1, 2009 Helen Kearney	Back on the Front Lines Over the past few months, both UBS and Morgan Stanley Smith Barney have completed their transitions to the 'complex' management structure. Many of the branch managers affected haven't had a book of business for years and say it's not an easy thing to conjure up overnight.
Registered Rep. January 20, 2004 David A. Gaffen	UBS Adds HNW Reps in San Fran, Atlanta UBS Securities, which has been one of the most aggressive recruiters of the last year or so in the retail brokerage business, continued its hiring efforts, recently bringing on two large producers from Goldman Sachs.
On Wall Street December 1, 2010 Matthew Leung	Winning Over Clients Who Have Been Burned It's not surprising that investors and even financial advisors may be disheartened about the market. So how can advisors remain motivated and prevent clients from sitting on the sidelines?
Registered Rep. February 1, 2005 Mindy Diamond	Customize Your Career As a result of broker dissatisfaction with the status quo, the increasing clout of top producers (at some firms) and the need for firms to keep successful reps happy, we're beginning to see quite a bit more flexibility.
Registered Rep. November 1, 2005 Kevin Burke	Reshuffling the Decks There is an unusual amount of reorganization afoot, with Merrill, Wachovia, UBS, Morgan Stanley and Smith Barney all shaking up their retail brokerage operations. Some of the moves have direct implications for retail advisors.
Financial Advisor June 2006 Tracey Longo	Is Any Stone Unturned? Is the NASD's regulatory clampdown over? Major changes are in place at the sales force level.
Registered Rep. November 4, 2004 David A. Gaffen	Serenity Reigns in Boca Raton Perhaps it was the recent victory of President Bush that heartened this business friendly crowd, or the tranquil Boca Raton setting, but the annual Securities Industry Association conference exudes an oddly serene tone.
Registered Rep. April 1, 2003 David A. Gaffen	Your Book or Your Life! What would you do if you lost your book? Where would you turn for new customers? Where could you be hired? Those are questions that keep many advisors up at night.
Registered Rep. October 8, 2010 Kristen French	Wells Fargo Advisors Hikes Recruiting Bonuses 100 bps In the next couple of months, major Wall Street brokers may be giving Wells Fargo Advisors a closer look.
Registered Rep. December 2, 2010 Susan Konig	Former Branch Manager Recruits UBS Advisors With $1 billion Two advisors from UBS' Houston branch resigned from the firm to join their former UBS branch office manager, Patrick Mendenhall, at Houston-based U.S. Capital Advisors, the wealth management advisory firm he formed in September
Registered Rep. July 14, 2008 Halah Touryalai	Morgan Stanley Offers $50 million In Overtime Settlement The settlement covers all financial advisors, trainees, producing branch managers, assistant branch managers and sales managers who live outside of California and were employed with the New York-based firm between Sept. 1, 2002, and April 21, 2008.
On Wall Street March 1, 2011 Bill Willis	The Power of Positive Leadership When you think of your branch manager, what images come to mind? Does he or she send off positive, negative or neutral vibes? Perhaps the message is mixed.
Registered Rep. March 12, 2012 Susan Konig	The Happiest Branch Office Managers Around While job satisfaction surveys seem to be everywhere in the industry these days, you'd be hard-pressed to find even one devoted to the role of branch office manager.
On Wall Street February 1, 2013 Pat Olsen	Life Stories: Janney Montgomery Scott s Chris Munafo Discusses His Life In 2008, I was promoted to my current position to improve communications with the private client group and improve the coordination of resources that support our clients, advisors and business plan. For example, we've developed desktop tools, such as our own dashboard, and apps to help our advisors.
Registered Rep. June 1, 2006 Mindy Diamond	Valuable Lessons A broker in mid-career doldrums with a desire to teach, coach or mentor should let prospective employers know of this interest. It may provide an enriching experience for a whole class of brokers.