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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 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.
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.
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. 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.
Investment Advisor September 2009 Melanie Waddell	Not So Fast Cerulli Associates data suggests there may be fewer wirehouse brokers breaking away.
Registered Rep. February 23, 2010 Halah Touryalai	Clients, The New Breakaways First, there was the breakaway broker phenomenon; now, it seems, we have a growing vogue of breakaway clients -- former wirehouse investors who ditch their old advisors for new ones at independent RIAs or broker/dealers.
Registered Rep. October 5, 2009 Kristen French	Citi Bank Brokerage Converts To All Fees Citigroup announced that it would convert its small North American bank brokerage business completely to a fee-on-assets-based fiduciary advice system, and would stop collecting commissions on stock and fund sales.
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. June 2, 2011 Diana Britton	America's Top Independent Brokerages The Merrills and Morgan Stanleys of the world say it was never an exodus, the migration is over, and it was only those advisors who couldn't make it in the cutthroat wirehouse world who crossed over to the independent side of the business.
Investment Advisor December 2005 Melanie Waddell	Breaking Away Brokers are finding it easier than ever to go independent, aided by custodians and other independent advisors.
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.
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. 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. June 1, 2004 David A. Gaffen	Shaking the Tree It's no secret that most firms are frequently looking for well-established producers, financial advisors who have been making big bucks for a decade or more. Top brass always relishes bagging an elephant from another firm.
Investment Advisor August 2008 Elizabeth D. Festa	Springtime for Brokers Custodians and independent B/Ds roll out the carpet.
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. 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. April 1, 2010 Halah Touryalai	Citi's Covert Makeover It's a major shift in business for an entire unit to leap in the fee-only RIA world.
Registered Rep. January 7, 2011 Kristen French	Will the SEC Curtail Recruiting Bonuses? With brokerage revenues getting squeezed and regulators sniffing around compensation issues and potential conflicts of interest, it's possible that 2011 could bring some changes to broker comp plans.
Financial Planning December 1, 2008 Brooke Southall	RIA Power Registered investment advisory firms are bringing in more assets these days than are wirehouse brokerage firms.
Registered Rep. November 4, 2011 Kristen French	Indie Exodus: Overhyped? In 2009, in the wake of arguably one of the biggest financial crises this country has seen since the Great Depression, over 3,000 financial advisors left Merrill Lynch, UBS, Morgan Stanley and Wells Fargo to start life over at an independent broker/dealer or RIA firm.
On Wall Street January 1, 2009 Frances A. McMorris	The 10th Annual Recruiters Roundtable Packages get lowered. Brokers get hired. Markets have tanked. Retention offers are shrinking. And yet, according to the experts in our 10th Annual Recruiters Roundtable, there are still opportunities in the retail brokerage arena, if you know where to look.
Financial Advisor January 2009 Eric Rasmussen	Revenge Of The Wirehouses Large Wall Street firms dangle big incentives to hang onto advisors.
Registered Rep. November 8, 2010 Kristen French	Merrill Strengthens Golden Handcuffs For New Hires, Recruits Small Fry To receive all of his recruiting bonus money, a new hire must now stick around for 14 years, instead of nine, and all of the back-end money is now deferred, where a big portion used to be in cash.
Registered Rep. October 8, 2010 Kristen French	Wells Fargo Advisors Hikes Recruiting Bonuses 100 bps In the next couple of months, major Wall Street brokers may be giving Wells Fargo Advisors a closer look.
On Wall Street August 1, 2011 Lorie Konish	Expect a New Wave of Advisor Movement Even with rumblings that Wall Street firms could brace for cost cuts and layoffs this summer, competition for top wealth management talent is poised to remain strong.
Registered Rep. December 20, 2012 Diana Britton	Are Your Clients Cheating on You? Probably You may be in denial, but chances are, your clients are cheating on you. A recent report by Cerulli Associates found that 74 percent of investors own a direct investing account, but advisors believe it's much less.
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. September 1, 2004 John Churchill	Handcuffs Made of Gold Deferred-Comp Plans Can be an Advisor's Lucrative Friend... Should I Stay or Should I go?...
Registered Rep. March 1, 2007	Gorman Gets It An interview with Morgan Stanley's James Gorman about the improvement in morale at the firm, what it took to get brokers turned around, what he still needs to accomplish and how Morgan is different from the rest of its Wall Street peers.
Registered Rep. October 1, 2005 Christopher O'Leary	It's in the Bank Wirehouse veterans who have switched to bank brokerages say Wall Street's perception of bank brokerages is stuck in the past, and that the best bank brokerages have become much more competitive in terms of production, assets and compensation.
Registered Rep. March 12, 2010 Mindy Diamond	Break Back Brokers Over the last six months, an interesting reverse shift is occurring: the RIA or independent b/d advisor who wants to return to (or go to for the first time) a wirehouse firm.
Registered Rep. March 1, 2005 John Churchill	Earnings Forecast: Clouds Give Way to Sun The past year's earnings troubles belie the brokerage industry's sunny prospects for 2005. For advisors, the industry's recent troubles have translated into fewer jobs, but many firms are recruiting aggressively again.
Registered Rep. February 21, 2006 Kristen French	At Morgan Stanley, the Gorman Era Dawns At Merrill, James Gorman was able to take a top team and make it more effective -- at Morgan Stanley, he inherits a demoralized, decimated sales force that trails its peers in assets under management, productivity and profit margins.
Registered Rep. July 1, 2006 Kristen French	James Gorman's First Marking Period In his first four months as head of Morgan Stanley's brokerage unit, James Gorman wasted no time showing that a new regime was in place. But he hasn't convinced all the troops that it's worth sticking around to see how his turnaround plans play out.
Registered Rep. August 29, 2014 Mindy Diamond	Ten Years of Myths and Moving Why advisors need to purge common "myths" from their thinking about changing jobs.
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.
Registered Rep. July 22, 2013 Mindy Diamond	The Long Road Home Wirehouse firms are recruiting more independent advisors to their ranks than ever before.
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. 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.
Registered Rep. September 22, 2008 John Churchill	Wall Street's Pain Is RIAs' Gain: Reps Flee Wirehouses, Bring Assets to Fido And Others Despite the still-outsized signing bonuses offered by most Wall Street firms, the steady trickle of brokers leaving wirehouse firms to join or form their own RIA firms is growing.
On Wall Street July 1, 2010 Lauren Barack	Beating Back The Independents So a mere eighteen months after the sky fell, is it really possible that life at the wirehouses isn't so bad?
Registered Rep. February 20, 2004	Extinct?: February's Cover Story Conferences were held to instruct reps in working as portfolio managers, and, in general, the improved technology made managing portfolios---and thus serving clients---a lot easier.
On Wall Street January 1, 2010	The Hire Powers Speak Out Headhunters open up about hiring, entrepreneurial mindsets, and wirehouse business models.
On Wall Street January 1, 2009 Frances A. McMorris	The 2009 Challenge: Embracing Change Now that the major earthquakes seem to be over, advisors at the brokerage firms once known as wirehouses increasingly find themselves asking the question: Should I stay or should I go?
Registered Rep. February 1, 2003 David A. Gaffen	An Employer's Market It's a hirer's market out there, but brokerage firms have not stopped recruiting. In fact, although it is quieter than usual, many firms are still willing to pony up big bucks in hopes of attracting top-shelf talent.
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. April 18, 2012 Diana Britton	Tiburon's Roame: Less of a Breakaway Trend, More of a `Broken-Away' Trend Whether you agree with him or not, Chip Roame, managing principal of Tiburon Strategic Advisors, is not afraid to tell you exactly how he sees it when it comes to the financial services industry.
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.