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Registered Rep.
July 14, 2011
Jerry Gleeson |
Wirehouse Breakaways Eye HighTower Model VWG Wealth Management, with assets of $700 million, is the fifth wirehouse team this year to join HighTower Advisors, a Chicago-based hybrid RIA with national reach and $18 billion in AUM.   |
Registered Rep.
January 3, 2012
Jerry Gleeson |
Raiders of the Wirehouse Ark The emergence of HighTower as a major player in the independent space also dovetails with the changes that have shaken the wirehouse industry since the 2008 financial crash. |
Investment Advisor
August 2009
James J. Green |
Free It's the concept and reality of joining a true partnership that has led some of the biggest advisors at the biggest Wall Street firms to join HighTower Advisors. |
Registered Rep.
August 2, 2011
Jerry Gleeson |
Ex-Merrill Team: HighTower's Model Is Financial Advisory World's iPod HighTower Advisors' latest recruitment prize, a Merrill Lynch private banking team, says it sees big changes coming in the financial advisory world. |
Financial Planning
November 1, 2012
Donald Jay Korn |
High-Octane Expansion: Hightower Advisors Has a New Growth Plan HighTower has gotten a big boost by working with independents. Can it keep up the momentum? |
On Wall Street
March 1, 2013
Samantha Allen |
HighTower Aims to Lure Top Names with Home Office Visit HighTower Advisors has steadily worked to carve out a role as an emerging boutique firm through its high-profile advisor recruitment wins. Many prospective hires are attracted after their first home-office visit. |
Registered Rep.
October 15, 2010
Charles Paikert |
Schwab's Advisor Services Results Beg the Question: Has the Breakaway Brokerage Phenomenon Peaked? Has the great diaspora of breakaway brokers to Independence Land -- either independent b/ds or RIAs -- climaxed? |
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.
April 30, 2009
Christina Mucciolo |
Schwab Says It's Going On Offense -- As If It Weren't Already The company is preparing to go on the "offense" to gain market share -- both in terms of winning client assets and recruiting breakaway brokers. |
Registered Rep.
December 13, 2011
Charles Paikert |
Regional RIAs Race To Expand Nationally In 2012 As Schwab Makes Move Regional wealth management firms are accelerating their efforts to expand nationally next year. |
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.
October 15, 2009
Christina Mucciolo |
Schwab Q3 Earning Down, But the Race For RIA Assets Is Hot Charles Schwab reported a 34 percent drop in its third quarter earnings, the firm's third consecutive quarter of slowing earnings this year. |
Investment Advisor
August 2009
James J. Green |
Camera-Shy CEO As CEO of HighTower advisors, Elliot Weissbluth is the public face and voice of a firm with a unique business model that is backed by some of the smartest entrepreneurs in the advisor and financial services business. |
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. |
Financial Advisor
November 2011
Jeff Schlegel |
Back In Gear After a slow period, recruiting is revving up again among broker-dealers. |
Investment Advisor
August 2009
James J. Green |
Editor's Note: Change Partners Some thoughts from the editor of this publication on the current state of the financial advisory business. |
Financial Advisor
January 2008
Tracey Longo |
Breakaway Brokers Despite being in business a shorter amount of time than the average advisor, breakaways have more assets under management, higher total revenues and a significantly higher growth rate. |
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
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.
June 1, 2005
Kristen French |
Fido Attacks! Long a distant second to Charles Schwab in the lucrative business of serving financial advisors, Fidelity is making an aggressive push to close that gap. And some advisors are taking notice. |
Registered Rep.
January 25, 2010
Halah Touryalai |
LPL's New RIA Platform Rakes in Assets Since launching the platform in October 2008 through the end of 2009, the firm gathered $7.3 billion in assets. |
Registered Rep.
February 18, 2009
Halah Touryalai |
LPL's New RIA Offering Lookin' Healthy; But Still A Pipsqueak Compared To Rivals There are some folks in the industry actually doing relatively well these days. Seriously. LPL Financial said today its new-ish RIA platform now has over $1 billion in new assets. |
Investment Advisor
February 2007
James J. Green |
Schwab to Bankroll Breakaway Brokers With advisor assets at $500 billion, the custodian will offer financing to big brokers going independent. |
Registered Rep.
October 1, 2004
John Kador |
Cultures In Conflict When Schwab's then CEO David Pottruck decided to purchase U.S. Trust to help service clients, he probably did not give enough consideration to the intangibles involved -- like customer loyalty, corporate culture and historical identity. |
Registered Rep.
October 17, 2011
Jerry Gleeson |
Schwab Trading Revenue Spikes in Q3; Asset Revenue Flat Summer market volatility took its toll on Charles Schwab Corp.'s third-quarter results. |
Registered Rep.
May 4, 2011
Charles Paikert |
Now for the Hard Part: After Splashy Debut, Dynasty Tries to Woo Wealth Managers Dynasty Financial Partners is now trying to make good on its initial promise to emerge as the preferred service provider for independent wealth managers catering to clients with over $5 million in investable assets. |
The Motley Fool
July 20, 2004
Nathan Slaughter |
A New Day at Schwab Charles Schwab CEO David Pottruck is forced to resign amid poor second-quarter earnings. |
Registered Rep.
October 26, 2010
Jerry Gleeson |
Net Assets Rise at LPL, TD Ameritrade Trading revenue (excluding asset-based fees and advisory assets), however, was less impressive, with LPL posting modest gains and TDA seeing big declines. (Not surprising, given the overall market conditions.) |
Registered Rep.
May 15, 2003
Ross Tucker |
Feeling the Flow Net asset flow figures among the nation's top firms indicate that Charles Schwab is leading in the race to add new assets. |
Registered Rep.
November 12, 2004
John Churchill |
Schwab to Cut Costs The nation's largest discount brokerage firm, Charles Schwab & Co., is cutting 19 retail branches in favor of smaller, one- or two-broker boutiques, a move the company says will cut costs and more effectively serve clients. |
Registered Rep.
November 25, 2008 |
Fido Poaches Schwab RIA Executive Fidelity Investments negotiates a contract with the former head of Schwab's advisor business. |
Registered Rep.
February 8, 2011
Jerry Gleeson |
LPL's Casady Sees Better Advisor Growth In `11 Though the firm managed to rack up strong revenue and profit growth last quarter and in fiscal 2010, it did not meet the annual recruiting target of 400 net new advisors that Casady had set. |
Registered Rep.
October 30, 2014
Diana Britton |
The Rise of the Mini-Aggregator The rise of the "mini-aggregator" is an accelerating trend: Mature, established advisory firms who have built out their own infrastructure are realizing that they can rent out their back offices and operations. |
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. |
Registered Rep.
June 1, 2006
Kevin Burke |
Schwab's Secret Success With more and more brokers going independent these days and open architecture on the rise, Schwab may very well bridge the gap between industry behemoths like Vanguard and Fidelity sooner than you think. |
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.
November 1, 2004 |
Schwab's Bright Spot An interview with Deborah McWhinney, unit head of Schwab Institutional, which provides back-office and technological support for more than 5,000 advisors. Since coming from Bank of America, she has watched its assets exceed the $300 billion mark. |
Financial Advisor
January 2007
Tracey Longo |
Allure Of Independence Remains Bright Independent broker-dealers step up their recruiting efforts among reps and the already liberated. |
Registered Rep.
March 15, 2012
Kristen French |
Did the $5 Debit Card Fee Prompt the Merrill Exodus? Bank of America Merrill Lynch has been bleeding top brokers in the past six months, just as many industry observers predicted. |
Registered Rep.
May 5, 2008 |
LPL Financial Heats Up The RIA World The largest independent broker/dealer in the U.S. announced today it's going to launch an RIA custodian later this year, which will serve both hybrid and fee-only investment advisors who operate independent RIAs. |
Financial Advisor
February 2004
Sydney LeBlanc |
Stature, Service, Size, Simplicity Schwab, Fidelity and Waterhouse are building sophisticated SMA (separately managed account) platforms. |
The Motley Fool
July 26, 2004
Roger Nusbaum |
How to Fix Schwab A former employee offers advice on how to fix the former financial powerhouse. |
Registered Rep.
February 2, 2009
Brooke Southall |
Schwab To RIAs: Expect Strong Service Despite Slowdown Despite a recent drop in share price, Schwab maintains that their long-term strategy is sound and will emerge as a winner from this credit crisis. |
Registered Rep.
July 20, 2004
Stan Luxenberg |
Back to the Future? Courage has never been in short supply at Schwab. The company was founded in the 1970s by Charles R. Schwab, and now he's back at the helm. But the task of reinvention is not a simple one. |
Registered Rep.
November 26, 2012
Mindy Diamond |
Advisors Sober Up For 2013 While the trend toward independence slowed a bit from previous years, 2012 was the year the independent channel legitimized its place next to the more traditional players. |
Registered Rep.
October 26, 2011
Diana Britton |
LPL Posts Strong 3Q Earnings; Adjacent Acquisition Could Be in Pipeline The real buzz during LPL Financial's earnings conference call was around the firm's acquisition pipeline, which chairman and CEO Mark Casady said was strong. |
Registered Rep.
August 1, 2004
Stan Luxenberg |
Chucked! If Charles Schwab cannot soon deliver on its goal of reaching all kinds of customers, then perhaps the board will insist on another change, this time moving the company back to its model of the 1990s, when Schwab was clearly a discount broker. |
Registered Rep.
July 8, 2015
Jerry Gleeson |
No Slowing RIA Growth In the financial advisory industry there are potential regulatory burdens, fickle investors, and crafty competitors -- but nothing has changed the relentless march of the registered investment advisor space since the 2008 crash. |
Registered Rep.
December 31, 2010
Diana Britton |
LPL to Capitalize on Growth in Independence; Long-term Challenges Remain LPL's growth will also hinge on overall market sentiment and retail investors' appetite for equities, according to Brad Hintz, senior analyst at BernsteinResearch. |
Investment Advisor
April 2007
James J. Green |
A President For Schwab Walt Bettinger, a longtime Schwab executive, has been named president and COO of the company, effective immediately, raising speculation that he will succeed founder Charles Schwab as CEO. |
