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Financial Planning
October 1, 2009
Conrad & Mitchell |
Indies' Gain Ground Registered investment advisor firms, independent broker-dealers and dually registered advisors are gaining market shares at the expense of wirehouses.   |
Registered Rep.
December 1, 2006
Kristen French |
60 Seconds with Deborah Doyle McWhinney A short interview about the rivalry between the registered investment advisor (RIA) firms that Schwab caters to and Wall Street wirehouses. |
Registered Rep.
June 1, 2007 |
The Great Re-Sell How will registered reps re-position themselves with clients who have fee-based brokerage accounts? |
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.
September 10, 2003
David A. Gaffen |
Existing Clients Want More Advice The good news for reps is that the world doesn't hate you. The bad news is that acquiring clients -- particularly affluent ones -- is getting a lot more tough. |
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.
June 1, 2007 |
All About the Benjamins Reps say the darndest things. |
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.
December 12, 2006
Halah Touryalai |
Smith Barney Pay Package: Perks Balance Cuts? This week, Smith Barney will become the first firm to make a change to its payout grid as a result of the securities industry's recent battle over broker overtime pay and so-called chargebacks. |
Registered Rep.
May 29, 2007
Kevin Burke |
Smith Barney's Krawcheck to Smooth Out Comp. Plan The brokerage giant's top executive is set to tweak the firm's compensation plan in an attempt to address financial advisors' repeated complaints over pay complexities and claims of unfairness. |
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. |
Registered Rep.
December 1, 2004
David A. Gaffen |
Sallie Krawcheck Has Left the Building In a move that presages future Citigroup plans, Smith Barney CEO Sallie Krawcheck and Citigroup's CFO Todd Thomson have switched offices. |
Registered Rep.
May 30, 2003
David A. Gaffen |
The New Smith Barney CEO Sallie Krawcheck was recruited to restore the credibility of Smith Barney and lead the business through its toughest slump in a generation. Krawcheck wants Smith Barney advisors to more than double their average annual production to $1 million. |
Registered Rep.
December 16, 2004
David A. Gaffen |
Smith Barney's Matthews Retires; Johnston Steps In Tom Matthews, president of Smith Barney's global private client group, is retiring and Charles Johnston, currently director of the retail branch system at the firm, will replace him. |
Registered Rep.
April 17, 2009
Halah Touryalai |
Smith Barney Losing Advisors, Client Assets But while Smith Barney is losing reps, it also appears to be recruiting heavily. |
Registered Rep.
January 1, 2007
Kristen French |
More or Less? Smith Barney overhauled its pay package -- just in time for the new year. Some of the changes it made were pretty radical -- especially for an industry in which any pay change, no matter how minor, is often a source of uproar. |
Registered Rep.
June 1, 2009
David Geracioti |
Can You Say, "Morgan Stanley Smith Barney?" The Joint Venture Launches Today The deal merging Citi's brokerage (Smith Barney) with Morgan Stanley's Global Wealth Management Group is closed -- ahead of schedule. |
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.
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.
April 18, 2007
Halah Touryalai |
Chuck Prince: Smith Barney Goin' Nowhere Citigroup's CEO has been at the center of company news recently with his plans to cut costs including last week's announcement of about 17,000 job cuts. That cut may affect over 100 Smith Barney employees and about 30 advisors. |
Registered Rep.
February 23, 2007
Kevin Burke |
Disgruntled Smith Barney Brokers Are Voting with Their Feet Sixty-nine brokers left Smith Barney, just ahead of a three-day weekend. Fridays before a long weekend are historically prime times for unhappy brokers to make a clean break, but the large number of brokers taking off on a single day is alarming. |
Registered Rep.
March 3, 2008
Christina Mucciolo |
Krawcheck Says Advisors Not Forced Into Wealth Silos: UPDATE Citigroup's reorganization of its private bank and Global Wealth Management division, announced Tuesday, will absolutely not force advisors into silos based on client wealth. |
Registered Rep.
August 1, 2005
John Churchill |
Should I Stay or Should I Go? When Smith Barney and Legg Mason announced a deal to swap the wirehouse's asset-management business for Legg's brokerage unit, a lot of Legg reps made calls to recruiters and began to prepare for a move. But now, a lot of reps have stopped packing. |
Registered Rep.
November 1, 2006
Susan Konig |
A Big Trade Off? For advisors looking for further independence through a registered investment advisory firm, compliance burdens can increase. Reps working under an independent b/d's umbrella RIA, also known as "dually registered" advisors, must comply with both NASD and SEC rules. |
Registered Rep.
October 1, 2006
Janet Arrowood |
Protect Your Clients, Protect Yourself If registered reps don't sell their clients life insurance, someone else will -- and that's a risk reps probably shouldn't take. At least, that's one conclusion that can be drawn from the results of two separate studies. |
Registered Rep.
February 1, 2006
Kevin Burke |
Hired and Fired Up The biggest brokerage businesses are showing that even in a modest market upswing they now have in place a strategy for delivering stronger and steadier sales and earnings growth. |
Registered Rep.
August 1, 2006
Kristen French |
The More Things Change Despite the big push for millionaire clients throughout the industry in recent years, average annual revenue per financial advisor for all firms has remained relatively constant. |
Registered Rep.
March 1, 2007
John Churchill |
Sallie's Back At first glance, this second coming of Sallie Krawcheck probably looks like a cakewalk compared to her first adventure in 2002. But, make no mistake: Smith Barney is not the awesome brokerage it appears to be on paper. |
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. |
Registered Rep.
February 7, 2012
Jerry Gleeson |
Morgan Stanley Smith Barney's King Breaks Away, Taps Dynasty for Help A Morgan Stanley Smith Barney team led by Larry King in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. left the wirehouse and started an independent registered investment advisor, King Wealth Management Group. |
Registered Rep.
June 1, 2004
David A. Gaffen |
Expand the Sales Force? Not Smith Barney The firm does not plan on aggressively expanding its sales force at this time, but rather intends to maintain its staffing level --- currently about 12,500 financial advisors. |
Registered Rep.
July 28, 2011
Diana Britton |
Ameriprise: Rep Productivity at New High; Securities America Sale in `Near Future' Advisor productivity reached a new high for Ameriprise Financial. |
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.
October 21, 2009
Kristen French |
Morgan Posts First Profit In Year The company' results were boosted by higher underwriting fees and trading revenue, as well as the firm's acquisition of Smith Barney. |
Registered Rep.
January 14, 2011
Kristen French |
Some MSSB Advisors Upset by Johnston's Departure Morgan Stanley CEO James Gorman announced Thursday that Greg Fleming, head of the firm's asset management business, will replace Charles Johnston as head of wealth management. |
Registered Rep.
July 9, 2009
Churchill & French |
Smith Barney Loses Top Executive, CFO Program To Be Rebranded After just 7 months on the job, Chris di Bonaventura, head of the Citi Family Office group, handed in his resignation. |
On Wall Street
September 1, 2011
Lorie Konish |
Morgan Stanley Smith Barney's $1 Trillion Target Morgan Stanley Smith Barney focuses on growing its Consulting Group division, where it aims to double the assets in the managed account group to more than $1 trillion within the next five years. |
Registered Rep.
April 21, 2009
Christina Mucciolo |
Smaller Advisors On The Firing Line It used to be that financial advisors never got fired. |
Registered Rep.
September 27, 2002
David A. Gaffen |
Bear Market Crushing Transaction Brokers Top advisors have been making the transition to the fee-based, "wealth management" style of advisory. But surveys have shown that many brokers remained resistant to the fee-based concept. |
Financial Advisor
March 2012 |
Wirehouses Still King Of The Hill Despite headlines about breakaway brokers and the ascendency of the independent, fee-based advisory model, the Big Four wirehouses are still holding their own. |
Registered Rep.
March 9, 2009
David A. Geracioti |
Trust An Advisor? The fallout from Bernie Madoff's alleged fraud on the financial advisory business might not disappear for a long while. |
Registered Rep.
April 21, 2010
Jerry Gleeson |
Morgan Stanley Profits Rise, Advisor Count Flat Morgan Stanley on Wednesday reported higher-than-expected revenues and profits in the first quarter, lifted by its acquisition last spring of Smith Barney and by higher fixed income. |
Registered Rep.
March 4, 2009
David A. Geracioti |
The Conflicts of Interest in Not Being a Fiduciary; Hang Charlie Merrill In Effigy? At least one commentator is calling for Charlie Merrill to be hung in effigy for creating the modern-day, hard-charging, sales-oriented brokerage called Merrill Lynch. |
Financial Advisor
November 2008
Gail Liberman |
War Breaks Out For Wirehouse Brokers The economic crisis on Wall Street, among many other things, is causing wirehouse brokers to reconsider the value proposition offered by the giant financial service firms. |
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.
October 11, 2010
Susan Konig |
Advisor Movement Should Pick Up in 2011, Experts Predict Aggressive and lucrative recruitment packages essentially prompted anyone who wanted a big check to move last year, Diamond says. |
Registered Rep.
October 23, 2006
John Churchill |
Opulence (and a Wee Bit of Strife) at FPA Confab in Nashville Education and networking were on order at the recent annual Financial Planning Association conference. |
Registered Rep.
February 14, 2011
Jerry Gleeson |
Citi's McWhinney Moves to Non-Advisor Unit Deborah McWhinney, president of personal banking and wealth management, will take over a newly-created position as head of global digital merchant acquiring. |
Registered Rep.
December 9, 2003
John Churchill |
Following the Money Trail It's a testament to the increasing complexity of the advisory business: Many advisors -- people whose very living depends on their ability to track the ebbs and flows of money -- are having trouble understanding whether they're being paid correctly by their own firms. |
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. |
