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Registered Rep. December 1, 2005 Kevin Burke	A.G. Edwards: Quietly, the Leader of the Pack Building on its strong performance from a year ago, A.G. Edwards lit up the scoreboard this year. Advisors say the St. Louis-based firm has a high-quality work environment, commitment to clients and freedom from pushing certain products.
Registered Rep. December 1, 2005 John Churchill	UBS: You Against Us? According to rank-and-file reps surveyed, UBS brass did a lot of things right this year and can take a bow -- and then quickly straighten up and fix the rest of what reps say is still ailing the firm.
Registered Rep. December 1, 2005	Registered Rep.'s Broker Report Cards How seven of the nation's largest brokerage firms stack up against each other.
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. January 1, 2007 John Churchill	Will Jones Wrap it Up? Buy-and-hold Edward Jones is considering a platform option it has long eschewed as foreign to the firm's culture: fee-based accounts.
Registered Rep. April 1, 2006 John Churchill	Keeping Up With the Joneses While Edward Jones will likely continue to lose larger producers until it finds another way for them and their wealthier clients, the business of the firm is really about serving the middle market.
Registered Rep. June 1, 2004 Will Leitch	Accused A recent mutual fund scandal at Edward Jones causes a temporary hiccup in the firm's reputation.
Registered Rep. December 1, 2005 Kristen French	Wachovia: Back on Track Wachovia is back in good graces with its brokers. The many integration headaches of the firm's merger with Prudential Securities have finally subsided. Reps polled say management has tackled a number of improvements.
Registered Rep. February 1, 2005 Will Leitch	Smiling Through the Pain If Edward Jones reps are dismayed by the firm's record-setting SEC fine and the subsequent dismissal of their managing partner, Doug Hill, they're doing a good job of covering up.
Financial Advisor May 2012	Satisfaction A job satisfaction study by J.D. Power found that financial advisors' happiness with their work is most dependent on their firm's performance.
Registered Rep. December 1, 2005 Halah Touryalai	Smith Barney: New Focus On the Horizon While most Smith Barney advisor respondents were generally unimpressed by the acquisition of Legg advisors, it'll be interesting to see if Smith Barney's jettisoning of its asset management group -- and resulting new focus on retail distribution -- will rejuvenate the firm.
Registered Rep. December 1, 2002 David A. Gaffen	Light A Candle, or Curse the Darkness For brokers and financial advisors, 2002 may be remembered as the year in which those who knew they had the right stuff redoubled their efforts to elevate their skills and become the kind of advisors who could survive the bear market and build a 21st century practice.
Registered Rep. May 2, 2007 Kevin Burke	It's Not About the Money The firms that have the highest number of satisfied financial advisors aren't necessarily the ones with the highest-paid financial advisors. Industry experts say that what really drives advisors to jump is friction with a supervisor.
Registered Rep. April 29, 2010 Christina Mucciolo	Edward Jones Raises FA Production Expectations Edward Jones announced that it had laid out increased production expectations for its army of 12,700 advisors that will take effect next year.
Registered Rep. November 1, 2006 John Churchill	A.G.E. to Catch a Rep Instead of buying brokers like its peers with offers of big upfront forgivable loans, A.G. Edwards is offering its own reps bonuses for successfully recruiting good reps.
Registered Rep. December 1, 2005 Kristen French	Morgan Stanley: Tomorrow Is Another Day In this survey, the management upheaval and culling of broker ranks shows in the grades Morgan brokers give their firm.
Financial Advisor August 2004 Tracey Longo	All Aboard Planners and advisors continue to switch independent broker-dealers.
Registered Rep. October 1, 2002	Warm Bodies Brokerages ranked by number of reps.
Registered Rep. February 21, 2012 Kristen French	Due Diligence: Edward Jones Has an Edge at Training in an Industry That Stinks at it Only about one out of every five rookies in the Wall Street brokerage business makes it through year two or three of a four-year training program, according to industry consultant CBM Group.
Registered Rep. January 9, 2006 Kristen French	Ed Jones, AG Edwards, Baird: Great to Work For The three regional brokerage firms made Fortune magazine's top 100 companies to work for this year. Brokers at AG Edwards and Edward Jones gave their firms the highest marks for everything from sales support to management to ethics.
Registered Rep. December 21, 2004 Will Leitch	Ed Jones Agrees to Pay $75 Million in Revenue-Sharing Case Edward Jones has agreed to a $75 million settlement with the SEC, the NASD and the New York Stock Exchange as punishment for failing to disclose to clients information about the firm's revenue-sharing arrangements with mutual funds.
Registered Rep. February 21, 2007 John Churchill	Smith Barney Comp Pleasant Surprise Judging from initial reports from reps, the written version of the new plan is an improvement from the prior version -- a plan many reps equated to a pay cut despite the firm's insistence that it was "revenue neutral."
Registered Rep. February 3, 2009	EJ Employees Are Lovin' It Edward Jones made Fortune magazine's "100 Best companies To Work For," list again this year, its tenth year on the list.
Registered Rep. September 1, 2004 Will Leitch	For Advisors, 2003 Was a Better Year The fortunes of advisors took a turn for the better in 2003, according to the annual report from the Securities Industry Association.
Financial Planning May 1, 2007 Andy Effron	Practice Tips Finding time to recruit reps and grow your practice can be challenging. But if you're willing to supervise, perform audits and have a Series 24, you can potentially act as an Office of Supervisory Jurisdiction and collect overrides from reps.
Registered Rep. December 1, 2011 Kristen French	Broker Report Card 2011: It's Getting Better All the Time Registered Rep.'s 21st annual Broker Report Cards showed advisor satisfaction ratings creeping higher this year across the board -- on everything from compensation and benefits, compliance support and sales support to products.
Registered Rep. December 2, 2014 Megan Leonhardt	Drivers of Advisor Satisfaction: Technology And Efficiency Financial advisors are known to harbor a strong streak of independence and autonomy, and aren't shy when it comes to letting their opinions be known, both good and bad.
Registered Rep. May 26, 2010 Christina Mucciolo	More Changes at Edward Jones, Chief Strategist Alan Skrainka Out According to a Jones spokesperson, Skrainka was ousted due to "his use of written materials without giving attribution."
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.
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. May 4, 2011 Kristen French	Edward Jones Aims to Quadruple Veteran Hires Long known as a firm that trains greenhorns and career changers from the ground up and then holds onto them for life, the firm is getting serious about recruiting financial advisors with experience.
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 22, 2009	Edward Jones, LPL, Schwab: Keeping Clients Happy FAs, you better be at the top of your game.
Registered Rep. July 24, 2006 John Churchill	Despite Increased Competition, Rep Comp Stays Strong The brokerage industry is an increasingly difficult job market to break into, and an even harder one to stay around in. But for those who succeed, it continues to provide a pretty nice living, according to the SIA's 2005 Production and Earnings Survey.
Registered Rep. January 1, 2006 Halah Touryalai	The Winner's Curse Many advisors independent b/ds recruit have now unrealistic expectations: They want full technical and marketing support, as well as help understanding products and asset managers.
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. January 31, 2006 John Churchill	A.G. Edwards Cutting Compensation As the brokerage industry moves upmarket and seeks better return on equity and profit margins, the pressure for reps (and their firms) to produce continues to increase.
Registered Rep. May 13, 2010 Christina Mucciolo	Edward Jones Top Advisor Attrition Remains Rock-Bottom, Says Weddle After Edward Jones lost two top producing reps and increased production expectations last month, some media outlets and recruiters made a lot of noise about rising advisor defections at Edward Jones.
On Wall Street March 1, 2011 Conrad & Konish	Compensation 2011 While recruiting packages generate a lot of interest, the actual pay that advisors receive from their firms doesn't get as much attention. So once again, On Wall Street has sifted through the payout grids in our industry for a unique comparison of their pay packages.
Registered Rep. October 1, 2004 John Churchill	These Go To Eleven It's no secret that sales assistants are the administrative linchpins of many a brokerage office, but never before has their role been so crucial to the smooth operation of their practices. The reason? Compliance-related paperwork.
Registered Rep. January 1, 2007 John Churchill	Not Your Father's Regional In his six years as CEO of regional brokerage Robert W. Baird, Paul Purcell has whipped the 87-year-old firm into a more balanced and productive business.
On Wall Street July 1, 2012 Donald Jay Korn	Ranking Wirehouses, Regionals Working the Employee Advisor Business A recent report from Cerulli Associates criticized the wirehouses for focusing on higher net worth clients. The result was that these firms were giving away the middle market (investors with $100,000 to $500,000 of assets to invest) to competitors.
Registered Rep. April 6, 2004 Will Leitch	SEC Investigates Edward Jones' Fund Sales Edward Jones--a firm that hasn't attracted much regulatory scrutiny over the years--has been under considerable fire of late, thanks mainly to previously undisclosed revenue-sharing arrangements.
Registered Rep. October 23, 2009 Christina Mucciolo	Ed Jones To Sell Brokerage Unit in U.K. Edward Jones announced the sale of its U.K. business operations to Towry Law, an independent wealth management firm based in the U.K., for an undisclosed sum.
Registered Rep. December 11, 2003 David A. Gaffen	Smith Barney Changes Payout Grid Smith Barney is altering its compensation system for 2004, with the main goal being to simplify its payouts and make them more product-neutral.
Registered Rep. September 4, 2013 David Armstrong	Editor's Letter: September 2013 Most advisors decide to move not because they are wooed to greener pastures, but because pain points inside their current environment have become too great.
Registered Rep. May 1, 2006 John Churchill	UBS Bellies Up to the Acquisition Table With the cost of recruiting and training soaring, firms continue to turn to acquisitions. The recent purchase by UBS of Piper Jaffray's brokerage unit won't be the last as competition for clients and their assets continues to intensify.
Investment Advisor September 2009	Broker/Dealer of the Year, Division II Quick company stats of The Investment Center.
Registered Rep. November 1, 2004 David A. Geracioti	Firms Pitch In After Hurricanes Many of the nation's largest broker/dealers helped Florida-based reps with compensation for September, as officials at several firms said the onslaught of hurricanes necessitated a response.
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.