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Wall Street & Technology
October 20, 2006
Cory Levine |
Sorice to Lead Merrill And ITG's Block Alert Steven Sorice has been appointed CEO of Block Alert, the block crossing network joint venture from New York-based Merrill Lynch and Investment Technology Group (ITG).   |
Registered Rep.
September 29, 2006 |
Stan O'Neal: Call Your Managers in Brazil |
Wall Street & Technology
May 21, 2007
Greg MacSweeney |
20 Year Wall Street Data Veteran Roseann Palmieri Joins Merrill Lynch Palmieri's career -- including 10 years at Morgan Stanley, six years at Deutsche Bank and, most recently, four years at Bank of America Securities -- has touched almost every part of the data management business. |
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. |
Registered Rep.
May 2, 2006
Kevin Burke |
Merrill's Japanese Venture Opens Its Doors...Again Merrill Lynch teamed with Japan's Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, armed with 150 financial advisors, in attempt to change the island nation's reputation as a society of savers -- a people who prefer to keep cash stowed away in low-interest bearing savings accounts. |
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.
September 15, 2008
Kristen French |
Merrill Lynch Sells Itself To Bank of America: Update 3 The biggest question, now that BofA has agreed to buy Merrill Lynch, is what Bank of America will do to hold onto Merrill Lynch's dearest asset -- its approximately 17,000 financial advisors. |
Registered Rep.
August 4, 2009
French & Churchill |
Dan Sontag Departs Merrill Lynch Much beloved by Merrill financial advisors, Dan Sontag is stepping down as head of Merrill Lynch Global Wealth Management. |
Registered Rep.
May 14, 2010
John Aidan Byrne |
Bank of America Still Ramping Up Merrill Branding Though it recently wrapped up a national advertising campaign for Merrill Lynch, Bank of America continues to ramp up branding of the division, with an extension of the Merrill New York Yankees sponsorship and other activities. |
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.
September 1, 2005
John Churchill |
She's Baaaack Hydie Sumner, a former broker who successfully sued Merrill Lynch for sexual discrimination, has been trying for seven years to reacquire her job at the firm. Now an arbitration panel has ruled that she can return to Merrill. |
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.
October 2, 2008 |
Thain Gets a Job at Bank of America Merrill Lynch CEO John Thain has accepted an offer to be president of Global Banking, Securities and Wealth Management at Bank of America. |
Wall Street & Technology
July 1, 2005
Maria Santos |
Deutsche Bank's Lehrman Moves to Merrill Ira Lehrman joined Merrill Lynch as first vice president and head of global investment banking and client technology. |
On Wall Street
April 1, 2010
Howard J. Stock |
Back Office Move Has Advisors Up In Arms -- Some Bolt Questions surround what will happen to BAI clients when Merrill moves their accounts from National Financial to Merrill Lynch. |
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.
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.
March 9, 2007 |
The Legal Battle that just Keeps on Going The former broker who won $2.2 million from Merrill Lynch in a discrimination lawsuit has filed suit again, this time countersuing a former sales manager at Merrill Lynch's San Antonio office. |
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 1, 2010
John Aidan Byrne |
Bank of America Ramps Up Online Brokerage Bank of America is making a push into electronic brokerage services, a menu that includes free online trading and a new platform called Merrill Edge, set to debut in late June. Some say the new services will steal business from Merrill advisors. |
Wall Street & Technology
November 18, 2005
Cory Levine |
Fixed-Income Analytics Merrill Lynch unveiled a new fixed-income analytics and data tool, MLXport, which currently is available to select institutional clients as a download. |
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.
November 6, 2008 |
Bank Of America To Sign Protocol, Herd Still Weighing Options Bank of America intends to sign the so-called "broker protocol," an agreement signed by most of the brokerage firms and RIAs stipulating what client information is acceptable for a departing financial advisor to take without getting sued by the former employer. But when? |
Registered Rep.
August 26, 2010
John Aidan Byrne |
Neck And Neck, Morgan and Merrill On Hiring Sprees Both firms say they plan to add net financial advisors in 2010, adding to stated plans to sign up 2,000 trainees each this year. |
Registered Rep.
May 1, 2005
Will Leitch |
So They've Got That Going for Them...Which Is Nice For all the problems it's been having in the last several months, Morgan Stanley can hang its hat on this good news: It is now the largest securities firm in the country. |
Registered Rep.
October 28, 2008 |
Merrill Retention Package Angers FAs With "TRO" Language Merrill Lynch financial advisors are worried about one paragraph in the retention contract they received last Friday, October 24 -- very worried. And it has to do with the so-called broker protocol agreement. |
Registered Rep.
October 1, 2010
John Aidan Byrne |
Who Will be Number One Among the Wirehouses? A good old-fashioned Wall Street fight for retail assets -- and a fierce tussle over which firm can call itself the Number One retail wealth management firm on Wall Street -- is brewing. |
Registered Rep.
January 28, 2009 |
Merrill Cuts Trainees Let the penny pinching commence! Merrill Lynch's training program took a hit yesterday as many of its trainees were shown the door. |
Registered Rep.
October 14, 2010
Kristen French |
Merrill Brokers Had "Good Reason" To Leave, And Got $1.2 ml For It Two former Merrill brokers won $1.167 million in an arbitration award from Merrill Lynch for deferred compensation benefits |
Registered Rep.
August 24, 2006
John Churchill |
Merrill and Hydie Sumner, Still Can't Work it Out Merrill Lynch has apparently decided it's had enough of Hydie Sumner, a former broker who sued the firm successfully in 2004 for sexual discrimination. |
Registered Rep.
June 10, 2005
Kristen French |
On the (Acquisition) Warpath Merrill Lynch is hungry to buy companies. |
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.
April 27, 2011
Jerry Gleeson |
Merrill Lynch Names Thiel to Run U.S. Brokerage Thiel, 50, will replace Lyle LaMothe. LaMothe, also 50, said on March 4 that he would retire as head of Merrill Lynch U.S. Wealth Management. |
Registered Rep.
January 19, 2006 |
Is Supreme Court Leaning Towards a Decision Against Broker? The Supreme Court heard arguments yesterday in connection with a suit by a former Merrill Lynch broker against the nation's largest brokerage firm, and the early reaction to the hearing is that this time Goliath won. |
Registered Rep.
January 29, 2007
John Churchill |
Merrill Adds Another (Expensive) Piece Merrill Lynch announced plans to acquire First Republic Bank, a San Francisco-based private banking and wealth-management firm with $16.4 billion in assets under management, for $1.8 billion. |
Registered Rep.
August 23, 2007
Christina Mucciolo |
Merrill Broker and His Wife Accused of Unthinkable Animal Cruelty (Or, "Don't Read if You Are Sickened Easily") A DHL deliveryman uncovered over 100 animals (cats and dogs) living and dead in total squalor in the $2.4 million dollar Saddle River, NJ home owned by Merrill Lynch broker, Philip Tamis and his wife, Cynthia Stewart. |
BusinessWeek
September 2, 2010
Moore & Mildenberg |
In the Battle of the Big Brokers, Merrill Is Winning Merrill Lynch earns higher profits with fewer advisers, thanks to a smooth integration with Bank of America and more cross-selling. |
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. |
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.
May 15, 2008
John Churchill |
Merrill's New Stock Rankings Merrill Lynch announces new guidelines for its research analysts that will require them to increase the number of firms in their coverage area that they expect will fall or underperform in the coming 12 months. |
Registered Rep.
January 12, 2011
Charles Paikert |
Luminous To Expand Beyond California Luminous Capital expects to open an office in Austin by the end of the year, said Mark Sear, founding partner of the firm. It also plans to open a new office in Denver, Colorado, though no date has been set. |
Registered Rep.
August 26, 2009
David A. Geracioti |
Is McCann Close to a Deal with UBS? Bloomberg is reporting that Bob McCann, the former head of Merrill Lynch's brokerage unit, is nearing a deal with his old employer that will allow him to take a job running UBS's wealth management unit. |
Registered Rep.
June 4, 2009
John Churchill |
Merrill Lynch's Dan Sontag Out? Salaried Merrill Brokers? Not so Fast According to a story posted yesterday on Clusterstock.com, a financial blog, Dan Sontag, head of Merrill Lynch's global wealth and investment management unit, is about to be pink-slipped. |
Registered Rep.
March 30, 2006
Kristen French |
Gorman Unrestrained Morgan Stanley retail chief James Gorman was freed by a New York State judge of the temporary restraining order that prevented him from raiding Merrill Lynch's brokerage ranks. |
On Wall Street
September 1, 2009
Helen Kearney |
On Life Support a Year Ago, Merrill Pays for Top Producers Merrill, under BofA, seems to be on the hunt to add to its ranks, and it's offering a very competitive package that has almost unlimited upside for top producers. |
Registered Rep.
March 23, 2006
Kristen French |
Merrill To Gorman: Quit Poaching Our Reps And BOMs Is James Gorman, the new head of retail at Morgan Stanley, brazenly poaching employees from his old firm, Merrill Lynch? A judge apparently thinks so. |
Registered Rep.
April 1, 2007 |
Broker Protocol for All? A judge's decision may make it a lot easier for brokers to leave protocol firms at a time when recruiting wars and transition packages are at their peak. |
Registered Rep.
September 8, 2006
Halah Touryalai |
Merrill Discrimination Suit Moves Forward After Failed Settlement Talks The racial-discrimination suit against Merrill Lynch is under way again after settlement talks between African-American brokers and the firm came to a halt in early June. |
Registered Rep.
June 6, 2005
Kristen French |
Gorman's New Job at Merrill: Demotion or Promotion? The leadership change was welcomed by brokers but is unlikely to shake things up at the brokerage unit. |
The Motley Fool
September 16, 2008
Alex Dumortier |
The BofA/Merrill Deal Won't Happen The current stock prices of Merrill Lynch and Bank of America imply that either the market doesn't believe the deal will happen, or it doesn't believe it will happen on the current terms. Read on to see why. |
