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On Wall Street November 1, 2009 Helen Kearney	Back on the Front Lines Over the past few months, both UBS and Morgan Stanley Smith Barney have completed their transitions to the 'complex' management structure. Many of the branch managers affected haven't had a book of business for years and say it's not an easy thing to conjure up overnight.
Registered Rep. April 11, 2011 Susan Konig	Can Producing While You Manage Make You Better at Both? Some producers are not a formidable producers until they become producing branch managers.
Financial Planning August 1, 2007 Ray Sclafani	Get Some Support An increasing number of B-Ds are recognizing the importance of coaching and training for advisors -- especially their top producers.
Registered Rep. May 1, 2008 Mindy Diamond	The Branch Manager Switch In today's turbulent markets, many financial advisors may want to give up a book of business and graduate to management, but that position also isn't as risk-free as they may think.
Registered Rep. January 11, 2010 Anne Field	Cop or Coach How can you be a cop and a coach at the same time? That's the challenge facing many branch managers these days.
Registered Rep. July 13, 2010 Susan Konig	BOMs Work More, Earn Less In the 1970s through the early 1990s, plenty of financial advisors hoped one day to become branch managers.
Registered Rep. May 11, 2010 Susan Konig	Branch Managers, To Produce or Not to Produce? Or Take a Pay Cut? Consolidation is forcing branch managers out of the business, or, if they are lucky, they are being pushed back into production.
Registered Rep. February 13, 2012 Susan Konig	Branch Managers Key to Team Building It's no secret that many branch managers feel their firms now view them more as "costly overhead" rather than as talented coaches and leaders who can greatly benefit their firms' bottom lines.
Registered Rep. December 13, 2010 Susan Konig	IBD and RIA Opportunities Arise For Branch Managers As the independent broker/dealer and RIA channels grow, they are creating a viable market for those displaced managers.
On Wall Street December 1, 2010 Denise Federer	Creating Better Branch Manager Relationships Have you ever considered the role your branch manager's actions play in your success and satisfaction as a financial advisor?
On Wall Street March 1, 2011 Bill Willis	The Power of Positive Leadership When you think of your branch manager, what images come to mind? Does he or she send off positive, negative or neutral vibes? Perhaps the message is mixed.
Registered Rep. October 1, 2004 David A. Gaffen	From Top Dog to Compliance Monkey Many branch managers at full-service broker/dealers around the country have found in recent years that their old role as branch manager has diminished, as more business decisions are made by headquarters.
On Wall Street November 1, 2008 Matthew Leung	Keeping Current Is Critical in Challenging Markets Clients' needs rule the day, so take advantage of existing educational sources, even in disparate areas of your work life.
On Wall Street October 1, 2008 Danny Sarch	Seven Reasons Why Advisors Move A firm that's hemorrhaging money isn't the only reason advisors leave. Company polices and management attitudes also play a part.
Registered Rep. October 10, 2008 John Churchill	McCann: Merrill Managers Get No Retention, FA Package Due in Two Weeks Merrill's president revealed that managers will get no retention package and only the top third of financial advisors will be getting a deal.
On Wall Street December 1, 2008 Danny Sarch	This Is Your Career, So Start Acting Like It Like any labor market, the financial services one comes down to supply and demand, and a number of forces are in line to start pushing values down.
Registered Rep. February 8, 2006 Kevin Burke	Merrill Brokers to Get Less Money Now, More Later--If They Stay Merrill Lynch has changed the way it pays its brokers to include more deferred compensation and less cash. The new package rewards brokers who stay a long time, while penalizing those that don't. Its aim is reducing turnover, but may also improve the firm's earnings.
Registered Rep. July 1, 2005 Matt Barthel	Reinventing the Branch Manager The do-it-all BOM -- the guy who would mentor a financial office's young bucks, auditing their tickets and their client interactions all while recruiting and tending his own book -- is becoming obsolete in today's compliance-happy environment.
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. March 1, 2003 Sam Jaffe	Coaching in a Storm We spoke to dozens of the best branch office managers, from managers of tiny regional shops to lords of sprawling city offices. Their secret to success doesn't sound all that tough: work hard and pay attention to details.
On Wall Street March 1, 2012 Lorie Konish	Go,Teams! When Hilliard Lyons introduced its current team-based award program in its compensation program five years ago, it led to what Executive Vice President Darryl Metzger now calls an "A-HA" moment for the firm.
Registered Rep. April 1, 2005 Erin Schulte	A Perilous Position? The duties of branch office managers (BOMs) have morphed from business strategist and rainmaker to compliance cop. The role, once considered a plum job and stepping stone up the corporate ladder, is increasingly being regarded as a risky, thankless task.
On Wall Street April 1, 2011 Carri Degenhardt-Burke	Looking For Mr. Good Manager Let your legacy in your advisory firm to be that of the compassionate manager.
On Wall Street May 1, 2012 Bill Willis	The Bank Perspective A growing number of wirehouse advisors are showing more interest in bank brokerage programs today.
On Wall Street March 1, 2010 Helen Kearney	Compensation 2010 Your definitive guide to the changes in advisor compensation across the industry.
Registered Rep. August 13, 2007 Halah Touryalai	Merrill Grabs Advisors Producing $5.5 million From Rival UBS Merrill Lynch won big last week in the aggressive industry-wide recruiting war for top advisors.
On Wall Street September 1, 2012 Bill Willis	Firms Recruit Top Advisors Instead of Developing Their Own Advisors need to feel the love from their firms and their branch managers
On Wall Street May 1, 2010 Bill Willis	Meeting The New Boss, Making The Right Impression During the past two years, complexing and merging have been frequent occurrences in your bank branches. If you're an advisor, odds are good that you have a new manager.
Financial Advisor August 2005 Tracey Longo	Independents Believe Bigger Is Better--And Cheaper Faced with higher costs, broker-dealers are targeting larger advisors.
The Motley Fool October 30, 2006 Dan Caplinger	Avoid the Boiler Room Some financial advisors know more about sales than they do about investing. Finding good financial advice is tough. Investors with little or no knowledge about their finances are extremely vulnerable to disreputable professionals.
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.
Registered Rep. August 9, 2010 Susan Konig	How One BOM Retains Top FAs The dizzying industry turmoil of the last few years has induced wirehouses to offer their top producers some of the largest retention packages ever.
On Wall Street September 1, 2010 Howard J. Stock	Talent Shortage Grips Firms As Financial Advisors Age After years of recruiting only established, top advisors in the so-called "war for talent" instead of hiring younger employees and training them, the industry is now facing a shortage.
Registered Rep. November 30, 2012 Diana Britton	Withering Wirehouses? Not Quite. Many industry propellerheads have forecasted an exodus of wirehouse advisors to the independent channel as retention bonuses unwind this year.
Registered Rep. February 4, 2003 David A. Gaffen	Complexing Issue: Morgan Stanley Creating Bunches of Branches Morgan Stanley is requiring that an increasing number of its branch office managers begin producing. The move is an outgrowth of its office "complexing" strategy, which groups together multiple branches under a single manager.
Registered Rep. January 20, 2010 Halah Touryalai	Wealth Management Has Strong Fourth Quarter At Morgan, BofA Neither Morgan Stanley Smith Barney nor Bank of America ended 2009 with a bang in the earnings department. But their wealth management units were pockets of strength.
Investment Advisor December 2005 Bob Clark	Why Bigger is Better This compensation and staffing study offers a preview of how financial advisory firms will be different five or 10 years from now.
On Wall Street April 1, 2010 Denise Federer	The Agile Branch Manager For many managers, the numerous corporate mergers have required them to embrace new work cultures to lead advisors successfully through transitions.
Registered Rep. July 18, 2006 Kevin Burke	Merrill's Brokerage Unit Records Huge Second-Quarter Gains Merrill's global private client group (GPC) registered a pretax earnings increase of 53%, to $701 million, in the second quarter ending June 30, up from $457 million in the same period in 2005.
Financial Advisor January 2006 Tracey Longo	Working Smarter, Not Harder As more independent broker-dealers set themselves up as strategic outsourcing partners, they are finding bigger and better firms driven to their door by stagnant or shrinking profit margins and the accelerating compliance melee.
Registered Rep. June 1, 2006 Kristen French	Morgan's Training Makeover Morgan Stanley is in the midst of a major redesign of its rookie training program, the latest in a string of moves by retail head James Gorman to revamp the brokerage operation and make it more profitable.
Registered Rep. November 1, 2005 John Churchill	Merrill Carrot to Advest Reps Merrill Lynch has proffered retention packages to newly acquired Advest Group's financial advisors, and according to industry observers, the packages are having their desired effect.
On Wall Street February 1, 2013 Matt Greenslade	Competition for Talent in Wealth Industry Stays Strong It s an advisor s market, as firms with diverse practice models strive to nab top talent.
Registered Rep. February 27, 2014 Mindy Diamond	Free Agents Many wirehouse advisors are frustrated with increased bureaucracy and a loss of flexibility. In fact, many say they will leave unless their firms re-up the retention deals.
Registered Rep. August 13, 2012 Susan Konig	Can FA Training Programs Redeem Themselves? Brokerages have an outmoded and inefficient way to train new advisors. The high expense and low success rate of broker trainee programs is increasingly problematic for branch managers, who must continually find new talent.
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. June 1, 2006 Kristen French	The Wealth Management Quest Are you really a wealth manager? Do you know what the phrase really means? It pays to know, because a new compensation report shows only 8% of advisors -- across all business channels -- actually fit the bill.
On Wall Street July 1, 2009 William Willis	Culture Shock: A New Company Even Seems to Speak a Different Language It is important for advisors to have a positive attitude about their new or changing firms. Remember, your clients and prospects are sensitive to these feelings, and will only be as comfortable with your firm as you are.
Investment Advisor August 2005 Mark Tibergien	Formulas for Success: Independence Day There is a growing trend toward registered reps moving out of the wirehouse environment -- a trend invisible to most, but obvious to the country's leading custodians: they are actively wooing breakaway brokers.
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.