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Registered Rep. December 1, 2006 Kristen French	Morgan's New Comp Plan Morgan Stanley retail head James Gorman announced the rollout of a new compensation program for 2007 -- one that will increase the firm's spending on compensation by millions of dollars. But the plan will also eliminate any compensation to reps on accounts below $50,000.
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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.
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Registered Rep. September 2, 2009 Halah Touryalai	SEC Says Careful With Your Recruiting Bonus The SEC sends a warning to broker/dealer executives about the recruiting bonuses they pay to advisors, saying they could encourage advisors to do things that are not in their clients' best interests.
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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.