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Registered Rep. September 11, 2009 Halah Touryalai	Survey Says: Wall Street Advisors Going...Wait For It...Independent! Wall Street wirehouse firms are expected to see a net loss of $188 billion in client assets to other channels in the industry, including RIAs, independent broker/dealers and regional b/ds.
Registered Rep. September 1, 2005 Kevin Burke	RIAs and Their Fat Payouts Registered investment advisors continue to take home fatter paychecks than their counterparts at regionals and wirehouses, even after factoring in the RIAs' higher overhead.
Investment Advisor December 2007 Angela Herbers	Bottom Up Broker/dealer recruiting is largely a zero sum game. Here is why it more advantageous for B/Ds to help their existing advisors.
Registered Rep. November 5, 2012 Scott Smith	Look Before You Leap The very benefits IBDs have used to lure advisors may actually be their undoing.
Investment Advisor August 2008 Bob Clark	Replacements Without a Clue Moss Adams LLP dropped a widely reported bombshell on the independent advisory community by announcing the firm is phasing out its practice management consulting. Who's going to fill the void?
Financial Planning April 1, 2007 Kathy Gevlin	How Are You Doing? If you were to take a step back right now and ask yourself how well your financial advisory practice was meeting your objectives, what would your answer be? What are the successful ones doing right? Consider the following questions.
Registered Rep. December 2, 2014	Best of the Best 2014 Unlike many of our competitors, we are as transparent as possible about our criteria and methodology when publishing a ranking.
Registered Rep. May 13, 2009 Christina Mucciolo	Wall Street Squeezes Small Brokers, Many Go Independent In this brutal market, many advisors are taking payout cuts or being let go. But many of these advisors are finding homes at independent and regional b/ds and RIA firms.
Financial Advisor October 2007	Editor's Note Success spawns its own challenges, and now the biggest problem confronting the advisory business is the availability and supply of labor.
Investment Advisor November 2007 Bob Clark	Today's the Day A growing shortage of professional talent coupled with low retention rates and virtually non-existent partnership tracks is adversely impacting the independent advisory industry.
Investment Advisor June 2008 Philip Palaveev	The New Model: The Fee-Only Broker/Dealer Independent broker/dealers must tackle head-on the causes of their frustration if they wish to survive.
Investment Advisor September 2008 Bob Clark	Who's Your Daddy? Philip Palaveev's new gig as president of Fusion Advisor Network foreshadows the future of independent advice.
Registered Rep. April 20, 2010 Kristen French	Merrill Won't Seek Growth Through Top Tier Advisor Hires Merrill Lynch plans to grow primarily by investing in current advisors and hiring rookies, said Merrill Lynch president of Global Wealth and Investment Management Sallie Krawcheck on Tuesday.
Registered Rep. June 2, 2015 Megan Leonhardt	Compensation Survey 2015: The Slowly Disappearing Commission Moving from a commission-based business to one based on fees, advocates argue, removes conflicts and puts advisors on the same side of the table as their clients.
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. March 1, 2008	Independent Together The "RIA-in-a-box" model will attract plenty of wirehouse reps who may have previously balked at the idea of going completely independent, fearing they were unprepared to run their own businesses.
Investment Advisor November 2006 Bob Clark	Name Game Advisors who want to benefit from the more favorable economics of working with fewer -- but higher net worth -- clients will increasingly need to position themselves as investment managers or wealth managers.
Investment Advisor October 2007 P. Palaveev & D. Inveen	Grow Your Own The biggest-ever Moss Adams Compensation and Staffing Study finds client demand is outpacing talent supply in the financial advisory industry.
Investment Advisor March 2006 Melanie Waddell	The Playing Field: Here, There and Everywhere Dually registered advisors (advisors who are registered with both the SEC and the NASD, and are collecting both fees and commissions) have the best -- and worst -- of both worlds. However, a new study shows when implemented properly, the hybrid model can be very profitable.
Registered Rep. November 1, 2005 Christopher O'Leary	Going All the Way Across the country, registered rep employees of national broker/dealers daydream of chucking it all and going off on their own. But how far do you go? Which is the best model for keeping the most of what your business generates?
Registered Rep. May 8, 2013 Diana Britton	Moving on Up: Go Independent and Make More $ Advisors who switched firms saw a jump in their compensation, especially among those who went independent.
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 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 May 1, 2010 Donna Mitchell	Advisory Pulse Registered investment advisory firms, especially small ones, are returning to the bargaining table this year; in the first quarter, RIA firms completed 24 merger and acquisition deals.
Registered Rep. November 1, 2007 Erik Kolb	Recruits In The Driver's Seat Recruiting in the independent broker/dealer business has reached a fever pitch. Firms have responded with recruiting incentives such as deferred compensation, transition financing, practice-management help, and sign-on bonuses.
Registered Rep. December 1, 2006 Anne Field	The Metamorphosis If you are ready to go out on your own as a registered investment advisor, you're likely to encounter a host of tricky problems and stumbling blocks. Here's a look at five of those problems and what you can do about them.
Registered Rep. November 1, 2005 John Churchill	You're Worth So Much More Clients might not agree, but there's rising evidence that advisors are not charging enough for their services.
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Financial Advisor June 2008	Frontline News News: As the number of financial advisory players shrinks, recruiting intensifies... Pomering to run Moss Adams' RIA unit... Pershing advisor solutions sets exec committee... Larger taxable distributions on mutual funds... etc.
Registered Rep. August 29, 2012 Jerry Gleeson	Devil Take the Hindmost The headlines in the media note that advisor headcount was down 2.3 percent overall in 2011. But it was the independent broker/dealer market that accounted for the biggest hit in the numbers.
Registered Rep. November 4, 2011 John Aidan Byrne	Rep-as-Portfolio Manager Programs Taking Off Despite the compliance hurdles, more than one third of financial advisors see direct handling of clients' assets by FAs acting as their portfolio managers clearly outpacing other fee-based management styles in the next three years.
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.
Investment Advisor February 2007 Bob Clark	Small Is Beautiful, Part Deux Solo advisors have the same earning potential as those in ensembles: it's just that fewer of them actually achieve it. Here are a few modest suggestions to get those solos moving in the right direction.
Registered Rep. June 4, 2013 Diana Britton	Fading Bull Our annual compensation survey shows advisors are riding the market rally -- so what happens when it ends?
Registered Rep. March 1, 2006 Kristen French	The Best of Both Worlds Advisors say the broker/dealer-RIA hybrid model gives them freedom to choose what products, services and fees are best for their clients.
Investment Advisor January 2007 Bob Clark	The Trust Threat Financial advisors need to rethink adding trust services to their offerings.
Registered Rep. May 27, 2015 Megan Leonhardt	Compensation Survey 2015: Breaking Down the Practice Are the firms that serve advisors ready to support a team-based, ensemble model?
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. January 1, 2007 David A. Geracioti	What Advisors Look Like Now Here are selected highlights from a reader survey selected from wirehouses, independent broker/dealers, RIAs, financial planners, bank brokers and insurance reps that offers a pulse from this demographic on business trends.
Financial Advisor January 2008 Bruce W. Fraser	Growing Up Over the next five years, the typical RIA will undergo rapid transformation, and the average RIA firm is expected to at least triple in size. To accommodate such growth, hiring decisions will become critical, stretching far beyond the traditional tendency of firms to simply add more advisors.
Registered Rep. April 21, 2009 Christina Mucciolo	Smaller Advisors On The Firing Line It used to be that financial advisors never got fired.
Financial Advisor July 2012 Jim McConville	RIAs Catching Up To Brokers In Compensation The compensation gap dividing elite independent advisors and top Wall Street brokers is closing, according to new research.
Investment Advisor October 2008 Angela Herbers	Know Thyself NexGen advisors often wonder how much they should get paid. To get a fair offer, first they need to accurately determine what they're worth.
Registered Rep. March 2, 2010 John Aidan Byrne	New Rules For 401k Advice The White House has proposed rules that require advisors to either use independent computer models that spit out advice, or else avoid steering workers into funds to which they are tied or that pay them a fee based on their recommendation.
Financial Advisor April 2007 William Glasgall	Why Marketing Works Over the years, many advisors, being analytical people at heart, have relegated marketing to a minor role behind crunching numbers for clients' financial plans and investment portfolios. Now, that attitude seems to be undergoing a long-needed change.
Registered Rep. January 22, 2015 Ryan W. Neal	Advisor Industry Shrinks While Assets Continue to Grow A recent report by Cerulli Associates found that the industry shrank 1.9 percent to 287,119 advisors in 2013. Asset levels, however, are on the rise.
Registered Rep. January 1, 2008	Independent Advisor Services, LPL Bill Dwyer President A conversation with Bill Dwyer, President of LPL Financial Services in San Diego, California, a financial services firm with $231.8 billion in client assets under management.