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Registered Rep. April 1, 2005 John Churchill	Aiming Downmarket Thanks to technological advances and the introduction of multimanager products (so-called multidiscipline accounts, or MDAs), advisors can now put clients into managed accounts with as little as $25,000.
Registered Rep. October 22, 2004 John Churchill	Regulatory, Compliance Issues Hover Over MMI Conference Many foresee the huge growth in separately managed accounts' popularity, combined with operational complexity, lack of standardization and relative lack of investor knowledge about these products, makes them an easy target for the SEC.
Financial Planning November 1, 2009 Donald Jay Korn	Loaded for Bear A year after the worldwide nosedive, though, things look brighter for managed accounts.
Registered Rep. April 1, 2003 Ross Tucker	MMI Annual Conference: SMAs Off and Running This year's Money Management Institute annual conference turns on a central fact: separately managed accounts (SMA) are in the midst of a critical wave of growth.
Registered Rep. April 21, 2004 David A. Gaffen	Separately Managed Accounts in Beantown According to data from Tiburon, 61 percent of fee-only advisors (RIAs) use no-load mutual funds as the chief component of their investment strategy.
Financial Advisor June 2005 Sydney LeBlanc	Thinking Outside The Managed Account Box An interview with Steve Gresham, executive vice president of Phoenix Investment Partners Ltd., and also a member of the Money Management Institute Board of Governors on the state of the managed account industry.
Registered Rep. November 6, 2002 Ross Tucker	Managed Account Assets Slide in Q3; Improvement Seen in Q4 Separately managed account assets dropped 5.6 percent to $392.57 billion for the third quarter from $415.86 billion in the previous quarter, according to The Money Management Institute (MMI). But at least one industry insider sees business improving this quarter.
Registered Rep. October 1, 2005 Kevin Burke	The SMA Migraine Separate accounts have been the "it" product for the financial advisory business for several years. So, why have money managers cooled to this seemingly irresistible financial confection?
On Wall Street September 1, 2008 Parisi & Leung	Are You Prepared for the Retirement Boom? Meeting the retirement and estate planning needs of the baby boomer generation represents today's greatest growth opportunity for financial advisors. But are advisors ready for it?
Registered Rep. July 14, 2009 Halah Touryalai	Financial Advisor Switching Firms Jumps in June June was a busy month for financial advisors on the move. The number of advisors switching firms jumped 45 percent in June versus May, according to Discovery Database.
Registered Rep. December 16, 2009 Halah Touryalai	Wirehouse Switching Slows in Second Half of 2009 In November, just 177 advisors in the wirehouse channel switched firms, the smallest monthly number all year, according to Discovery Database.
Financial Advisor July 2006 Dorothy Hinchcliff	Climbing A Stairway To Heaven As boomers age and spend their savings, financial advisors will need to adapt their practices.
Financial Planning December 17, 2007 David E. Adler	High Net Worth: UMAs vs. SMAs Some industry observers say unified managed accounts do what separately managed accounts can't -- others call them overpriced gimmicks.
Registered Rep. October 1, 2005 John Kador	Schwab Does It Again Charles Schwab, the pioneering discount broker who was slammed by the tech wreck and suffered through protracted management struggles in the past two years, is beating the wirehouses at their own game.
Registered Rep. October 24, 2005 Halah Touryalai	UMAs: The Next Big Thing The unified managed account appears to have all the ingredients needed for delivering a fully diversified, customized portfolio for the tax-sensitive retail investor -- albeit at a princely price to the client.
Investment Advisor September 2006 Mark Tibergien	Formulas for Success: Bust of Boom? Financial advisors need to adjust their practices as baby boomer clients age.
Registered Rep. January 6, 2010 Halah Touryalai	Wirehouse FAs Switching B/Ds Slows The number of wirehouse advisors switching broker/dealers has been in steep decline since June.
Registered Rep. June 1, 2015 Megan Leonhardt	Compensation Survey 2015: Crunching the Numbers The industry has come a long way in embracing a fee-based business.
Registered Rep. June 1, 2005 John Churchill	Wall Street's Big Curtain Call How baby boomer brokers move into retirement over the next 10 to 15 years will change the face of the industry in many ways.
Registered Rep. January 1, 2003 Pam Black	A Separate Reality The separately managed account revolution might well be sweeping the financial services industry. That transformation, while still somewhat slow, is inexorable, but also incomplete. So far, for the most part, SMAs aren't being used correctly.
Registered Rep. February 16, 2010 Mindy Diamond	Recruiting Bonuses Are Still Strong TD Ameritrade, Schwab, Fidelity and Pershing are all reporting that their pipelines of interested advisors is more robust than ever in their collective histories.
Investment Advisor July 2006 Melanie Waddell	Retirement Planning: Retirement Advisor Profile Novice unified managed accounts (UMAs): just right for retiring boomers.
Financial Advisor June 2006 Tom Lydon	Ten Myths Busted At Tiburon Summit Discussions at the Tenth Tiburon Strategic Advisors CEO Summit helped dismantle myths about investments, boomers and more.
Registered Rep. September 24, 2013 Mindy Diamond	Peeking Over the Fence Is the grass really greener -- and growing faster -- on the other side? Many advisors don't know how limited they are in their growth until they start exploring other options.
Financial Advisor April 2005 Tracey Longo	How Boomers Will Change Your Firm What will your financial advisory firm look like in 2015? With about 75 million baby boomers retiring, different than than it does now.
Financial Advisor May 2006 Tracey Longo	What Have You Done For Me Lately? The race is on among independent broker-dealers to recruit more top fee-based advisors.
Registered Rep. August 1, 2005 Janet Arrowood	The Great Insurance Race Given all the benefits that insurance can deliver to both registered reps and clients, an increasing number of reps are deciding it's worth the effort.
Financial Advisor August 2004 Sydney LeBlanc	Independent Broker-Dealers Improving SMA Programs Historically, independent advisors have been forced to sit on the sidelines while wirehouses led the way in products and technology for separately managed accounts. Increasingly, things seem to be changing.
Financial Planning June 1, 2006 Joan Warner	FP50: Where the Growth Is With their market share growing 20% a year and the boomer generation's accumulated treasure to deploy, independent broker-dealers are on a prosperous path.
Investment Advisor November 2005 Bob Clark	Clark at Large: Boom Time If you're like most financial advisors, your baby boomer clients will pose a significant challenge in the years to come, both in the way you manage client portfolios and your practice.
Financial Planning May 1, 2007 Donald Jay Korn	The Right Package Fee-based asset management accounts have reached the trillion-dollar level. Some financial planners are finding new flexibility in these packaged deals.
On Wall Street July 1, 2010 Frances A. McMorris	The Burgeoning Battle For The Best And The Brightest What are the wirehouse behemoths doing to keep their advisors happy, attract others, and, in turn, maintain the bulk of high-net-worth client assets?
Financial Planning October 1, 2011 Ann Marsh	What Cachet? The sales pitch for separately managed accounts often goes something like this: "So you want to invest with the big boys but you've only got $100,000 to $200,000?"
Registered Rep. January 1, 2006 John Churchill	More, More, More Faced with growing competition from other advice providers and fewer inherent advantages in the way of products and platform capabilities, wirehouse brokers will feel pressure to do more fee-based business and to make wealthier clients a bigger part of their practice.
Registered Rep. April 29, 2009 Halah Touryalai	Wirehouse Advisors Switch Firms in March The number of reps switching broker/dealers during the month was up 34 percent versus the number who switched in February.
On Wall Street September 1, 2008 Neil OHara	SMAs: Overhyped or Underused? Separately managed accounts are often touted for their tax advantages. But some investors don't maximize that potential.
Registered Rep. January 15, 2007 John Churchill	Schwab Pays Up to Move Reps Schwab Institutional, the independent investment advisor arm of Charles Schwab, announced that it plans to offer start-up loans to registered reps who leave their firm to affiliate with Schwab's independent network.
Financial Advisor January 2006 Sydney LeBlanc	Breaking The Mold The new SMA environment will allow advisors to demonstrate in a truly value-added fashion that they bring a great deal of expertise to the table from which clients can benefit.
U.S. Banker August 2002 Karen Krebsbach	Banking on SMA Funds From investment management to technology to back-office services, outsourcers are elbowing their way into the separately managed account (SMA) business. Small banks are paying attention -- and hoping to reap the rewards.
Financial Advisor December 2007 Sydney LeBlanc	More Options, More Business Independent advisors recently got the opportunity of a lifetime -- the marriage made between fee-based advisory accounts and fiduciary accountability finally made headlines in the SEC repeal of Rule 202.
Financial Advisor May 2005 Lavine & Liberman	Uncertain Future The Fidelity Executive Forum raises issues about where the money management industry is headed.
Registered Rep. August 25, 2010 Halah Touryalai	Better Economic Times Ahead? Your Clients Don't Think So. Advisors seem more optimistic about the economy than their own clients, according to a recent survey.
Financial Advisor June 2009 Jeff Schlegel	Money In Motion The economic crisis has wreaked havoc on wirehouses, and more advisors are looking for new opportunities.
Registered Rep. October 1, 2005 Matt Barthel	Insurance and the Generation Gap Reps historically have been reluctant to sell life insurance because of the steep learning curve associated with the products, and there is evidence that many still are hesitant to put forth the effort necessary to grasp the products' nuances.
Financial Advisor September 2006 Sydney LeBlanc	SMA/Nonprofit Connection Although SMAs have always provided an entree for financial advisors wishing to enter the high-net-worth market, they may also provide an entry point to a lucrative segment of that market -- foundations and endowments.
Registered Rep. November 1, 2005 Christopher O'Leary	Creating an Escape Plan Independence has long been a dream of many wirehouse reps. But for the great majority of wirehouse pros, it remains simply that. Going independent is a proposition fraught with peril and is not to be taken lightly.
Financial Advisor June 2004 Sydney LeBlanc	SMAs and Due Diligence: Streamlining The Process Software tools and common sense can help advisors enter the separately managed accounts (SMA) business.
On Wall Street September 1, 2011 Bill Willis	Is Now The Time to Head to Wirehouses? The demise of the wirehouse has been greatly exaggerated. For years, pundits have forecast that a torrent of wirehouse advisors will go independent. But, from where I sit, this torrent has turned out to be a trickle.
Financial Planning June 1, 2007 Deborah Doyle McWhinney	Independents' Day As investment advisors become more popular and profitable, they must find new ways to keep ahead of the competition.