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Registered Rep.
July 8, 2009 |
CIMA Adds Post-Modern Portfolio Theory To Curriculum The Investment Management Consultants Association has announced that it has changed the requirements for attaining the designation of Certified Investment Management Analyst.   |
Registered Rep.
August 13, 2007
Halah Touryalai |
Merrill Grabs Advisors Producing $5.5 million From Rival UBS Merrill Lynch won big last week in the aggressive industry-wide recruiting war for top advisors. |
Registered Rep.
June 6, 2006
Halah Touryalai |
End of Settlement Talks Bring Students to Protest Against Merrill Lynch African-American college students protested in front of several Chicago-based Merrill Lynch offices one day after settlement talks between African-American reps who claim they were discriminated against and Merrill Lynch came to an end. |
Registered Rep.
October 28, 2015 |
Merrill Lynch: A Simple and Streamlined Approach Merrill Lynch designed Merrill Lynch One, a multi-year, $100 million project that brought together five disparate money management platforms, each with their own fee structure, enrollment process and website. |
Registered Rep.
December 1, 2005
Kristen French |
Merrill Lynch: Still Wirehouse Queen Merrill reps like what they see. This year, the firm kept top honors among wirehouses in the Broker Report Card surveys, and beat its own overall score from last year. |
Registered Rep.
June 1, 2006
Kristen French |
Hungry for Hires Wachovia hired a whopping 900 reps in 2005, bringing the total to 10,400, and aims to add the same number in 2006, including around 100 rookies. |
Registered Rep.
May 1, 2004 |
Funny Fact Perhaps "The Apprentice 2" will feature a stronger showing from the financial advisory contingent. |
Registered Rep.
May 1, 2005
David A. Geracioti |
A Mere Hurdle to Clear When the SEC ruled in April to re-propose the so-called Merrill Exemption, permitting Series 7 licensees to continue to call themselves "financial advisors," thousands of reps --- and their firms --- heaved a sigh of relief. |
Registered Rep.
October 1, 2002 |
Corrections Diamond Consultants... Ken Unger as CEO of Million-Dollar Producer... Marsha Jones' first year at Merrill Lynch... |
Registered Rep.
November 14, 2008 |
Update: 6,200 Merrill FAs Sign BofA Retention At Deadline Merrill says that only about half of the firm's nearly 17,000 advisors were eligible in the first place, and that they are responsible for about 75 percent of the firm's production. |
Registered Rep.
September 15, 2005
John Churchill |
Merrill Gets Advest Cheap Merrill Lynch reportedly paid $400 million for the purchase of the Advest Group from AXA. The purchase includes the private client group, an asset management arm and a capital markets group. According to analysts, Merrill got the firm cheap. |
Registered Rep.
August 5, 2003
David A. Gaffen |
Tussle Over Designations at IMCA Rankles Advisors The Certified Investment Management Associate degree, or CIMA, is an exclusive certification, and some brokers with the similar CIMC designation are finding that out the hard way. |
Registered Rep.
April 15, 2009
Kristen French |
Bank of America Launches Client Referral Program It's one of several referral programs the bank is putting together as part of its integration with Merrill Lynch, including one that would offer leads from the commercial banking division to certain Merrill Lynch advisors. |
Registered Rep.
April 13, 2004
David A. Gaffen |
Merrill Reports Record Quarter Merrill Lynch reported earnings of $1.3 billion for the first quarter of 2004, a 95 percent increase from the same period a year ago. |
Investment Advisor
November 2009
Kathleen M. McBride |
Merrill's Big Plans The importance of culture at the organization is what Sallie Krawcheck spoke of at her first press conference as president of Global Wealth Management & Investment Management at Bank of America Merrill Lynch. |
Registered Rep.
October 23, 2007
John Churchill |
Pre-Earnings Whisper Not Good for Merrill By announcing the likelihood of a multibillion-dollar write-down in its third quarter a few weeks ago, Merrill Lynch prepared investors for dismal earnings. |
Financial Advisor
February 2012 |
IMCA Boosts 2011 Membership The Investment Management Consultants Association's stepped-up efforts to attract new members paid dividends in 2011, with overall membership up 7% for the year. |
Registered Rep.
November 1, 2005
John Churchill |
Merrill Carrot to Advest Reps Merrill Lynch has proffered retention packages to newly acquired Advest Group's financial advisors, and according to industry observers, the packages are having their desired effect. |
Registered Rep.
March 16, 2012
Kristen French |
Due Diligence: Merrill Cost-Cutting Centers on Client Segmentation, Less Bureacracy Merrill Lynch financial advisors can expect Bank of America cost-cutting to take the form of greater client segmentation and reduced bureaucracy, said John Thiel of Merrill Lynch |
Registered Rep.
December 1, 2004
David A. Gaffen |
Merrill Watching Consolidation with Eyes Wide Open James Gorman, head of Merrill Lynch's private client group, believes the brokerage industry will continue to consolidate in the coming years. |
Registered Rep.
October 20, 2005
John Churchill |
Merrill Call Center Under Microscope The financial firm's brokerage call centers, its service centers for less complicated and less profitable accounts, are under investigation by the NASD for past improprieties. |
Registered Rep.
April 27, 2011
Kristen French |
CIMA Aims High: Seeks to Replace Series 7, 65 As Industry Standard The Investment Management Consultants Association announced Wednesday that its popular CIMA certification is now accredited by the American National Standards Institute, making it the first of the major wealth management designations to meet international ISO standards. |
Registered Rep.
October 1, 2002 |
Warm Bodies Brokerages ranked by number of reps. |
Registered Rep.
May 1, 2004
David Gaffen |
The Departure of a Consulting Pioneer An interview with Investment Management Consultants Association's Evelyn Brust on her tenure and about her views on the direction of the financial advice industry. |
Registered Rep.
September 14, 2005
John Churchill |
Mother Merrill Adopts Advest From AXA Merrill Lynch and AXA Financial, part of the French insurance giant AXA, announced today that Merrill would buy The Advest Group, AXA's full-service retail brokerage arm. Both firms' shares rose on the news. |
Registered Rep.
January 1, 2006
Kristen French |
What's in a Name? Financial advisor is the name most of the other wirehouses use for their registered reps these days. It reflects the industry's attempts to transform its reps from commission-based stock jockeys to fee-based relationship managers. |
Registered Rep.
November 14, 2005
John Churchill |
For Advest Reps, Clock Is Ticking With only two weeks left before Merrill Lynch closes its deal to buy Advest Group, top reps at the Hartford, Conn.-based firm continue to run for the exits. This past weekend another $8 million in production decamped for other firms. |
Registered Rep.
April 16, 2010
Jerry Gleeson |
Merrill Advisor Defections Flat In Q1, Profit Falls Profits were down last quarter at Merrill Lynch but the brokerage's performance still helped to lift the fortunes of its new parent, Bank of America Corp. |
On Wall Street
May 1, 2011 |
Five Questions With Sean Walters Sean Walters of the Investment Management Consultants Association shares his thoughts on the industry and credentialing programs. |
Registered Rep.
October 24, 2008
John Churchill |
Merrill Retention Is Adequate for Top Dogs, Scanty for Lower-Tier Producers The long-awaited Merrill Lynch retention package has arrived. Not surprisingly, top producers will probably be pleased, but others may not. |
Registered Rep.
May 1, 2004
David A. Gaffen |
Mother Merrill's Extreme Makeover A 12-year veteran of Merrill Lynch has noticed a pronounced improvement over the years in the way clients perceive him and his colleagues. |
The Motley Fool
January 23, 2006
Stephen D. Simpson |
Maybe a Bull Case for Merrill Lynch This large broker-dealer is doing well, but further operating improvements could make it a bargain for investors. |
Registered Rep.
November 18, 2005
Kristen French |
Smith Barney Cuts Pay for Smaller Brokers The new pay scale was announced to brokers internally in October and will take effect in January. |
Registered Rep.
June 11, 2008 |
Thain + You, Sittin' in A Tree Merrill Lynch CEO John Thain heaps praise upon the wealth management division during an interview. |
Registered Rep.
April 15, 2011
Kristen French |
Merrill Earnings Strongest Since Bank of America Takeover Bank of America's Global Wealth and Investment Management division, which includes Merrill Lynch, reported its highest earnings since Bank of America's takeover of Merrill in late 2008, as asset management and brokerage fees rose. |
Registered Rep.
October 17, 2008 |
Merrill Posts $5.2 Billion Loss, Fifth In A Row Merrill Lynch reports its fifth straight quarterly loss, including a whopping $13.5 billion in mortgage-related asset write-downs, bringing the firm's sub-prime related losses/write-downs total to more than $65 billion. |
Registered Rep.
August 25, 2006
Kevin Burke |
Merrill Fighting Back Against Recent Defections The recruiting war for top brokers remains fierce. The latest evidence of the fight to win million-dollar producers involves the industry's biggest firms. |
BusinessWeek
January 29, 2009 |
On the Dole Bank of America, which agreed to buy Merrill Lynch in September, has been a prime beneficiary of the bailout. |
Registered Rep.
June 10, 2005
Kristen French |
On the (Acquisition) Warpath Merrill Lynch is hungry to buy companies. |
Registered Rep.
January 9, 2008
Halah Touryalai |
Smith Barney Snags Three Advisors From Rivals Smith Barney has started off the new year right with a recruiting victory. The firm recently hired three Merrill Lynch reps and one UBS advisor. |
Registered Rep.
October 22, 2002
Rick Weinberg |
Merrill to Reps: Go Get 401(k) Business Merrill Lynch advisors are now going to offer participants in Merrill-run retirement plans specific buy and sell recommendations. Indeed, participants may elect to turn over all investment decisions to Merrill advisors. |
Registered Rep.
June 27, 2006
Kevin Burke |
You Leaving Me?--Mother Merrill Asks Some Top Producers If They're Fixin' to Depart If you are one of Merrill Lynch's best financial consultants and you have been flirting with other brokerages or financial-planning firms, watch out: You could get hit with a Merrill loyalty statement. |
Investment Advisor
December 2009
Melanie Waddell |
Retirement Planning: Income Plans, Merrill Style Service links Bank of America deposit accounts with Merrill Lynch cash management accounts. |
Health
February 2008 |
The Workout: Part 2 For weeks four through six, do this ramped-up, 25-minute version of the workout. |
Registered Rep.
May 1, 2006
Kevin Burke |
Failure to Launch Last year, Merrill Lynch's deal to buy Advest was regarded as a savvy transaction. Eight months later, with about 100 reps left, the deal math looks considerably worse. But Merrill may soon have an opportunity to see if it can do better. |
Registered Rep.
November 22, 2005
John Churchill |
For Merrill and Smith Barney Acquisitions, It's Wait n' See The financial firms' respective purchases would have added hundreds of regional brokers to their retail brokerage units, but many of these departing brokers have decided they don't want to work for a big firm and are finding sweet recruiting deals at smaller shops. |
InternetNews
November 8, 2005
David Needle |
Chip Supply Solid, Merrill Says Semiconductor inventory remains high but flat, according to a report by investment giant Merrill Lynch. |
Registered Rep.
February 10, 2009 |
In First Media Interview, McCann Says Resignation Was At A "Logical Time" In his first interview since leaving Merrill Lynch, Robert J. McCann says he maintains good feelings for both Merrill Lynch and the timing of his departure. |
Registered Rep.
March 15, 2006
John Churchill |
NASD Fines Merrill $5 Million in Settlement Over Improper Supervision Charges The firm's Financial Advisory Center (FAC) was found to have lacked sufficient supervisory measures that led to a variety of improprieties committed by brokers at the two locations between 2001 and 2004. |
Pharmaceutical Executive
August 1, 2005 |
Backpage: Feet-on-the-Street Interview A new survey asked pharmaceutical reps how their job has been changing. One bit of good news: A few reps think it's easier to get past the receptionist's desk. |
