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Registered Rep.
March 8, 2012
Diana Britton |
Founders of Advanced Equities Slammed with Wells Notices Over Private Offerings The SEC sent the notices to Chairman Keith Daubenspeck and CEO Dwight Badger in January 2012, notifying them that the staff may take enforcement action related to a private offering in 2009.   |
Financial Advisor
June 2008
Tracey Longo |
Swimming Upstream California investment advisor John Threlkeld has been working diligently to serve wealthier and wealthier investors, even purchasing two other advisors' practices and turning all but his top clients over to a junior planner. |
Investment Advisor
March 2008
James J. Green |
Catching up with... Keith Gregg A conversation with Keith Gregg, president of independent broker/dealer First Allied Securities, is gung ho about the opportunities to help First Allied reps grow their businesses and acquire other firms. |
Registered Rep.
June 1, 2012
Diana Britton |
Breaking Out: A New Era in Insurance Insurance firms constantly go through cycles of acquisition and sale when it comes to their broker/dealer subsidiaries. But the current sell cycle is different, and it may shake up how the business works. |
Registered Rep.
March 23, 2012
Diana Britton |
Amid Hartford Split, Woodbury's 1,600 Reps Face Tough Choice The Hartford announced plans to sell its life insurance and retirement businesses, as well as Woodbury Financial Services, the firm's independent broker/dealer, leaving Woodbury's 1,600 reps faced with the tough choice: Find another broker/dealer or stick around and see who the new owners will be. |
Registered Rep.
November 5, 2012
Diana Britton |
Defying the Odds It's orthodoxy that small IBDs won't be able to stay in business given the unprecedented increase in regulatory and technology costs. Yet some tiny firms are bucking the trend. Here's how they're doing it. |
Registered Rep.
November 1, 2005
Kristen French |
A Shopping Allowance: The Newest Recruiting Tool In the competition for top financial advisors, broker/dealers are offering forgivable loans to advisors who want to purchase other financial advisory practices. |
Registered Rep.
March 31, 2015
Diana Britton |
The Rare Prop Product In REP.'s fifth annual Independent Broker/Dealer Report Card, only 19 percent of 2,058 advisors surveyed said they sell in-house or proprietary products. |
Registered Rep.
August 10, 2011
Diana Britton |
LPL Conference Opens with New Initiatives, Support for Advisors LPL Financial kicked off its annual conference in Chicago on Monday by ringing the opening bell of the NASDAQ stock exchange and announcing some new initiatives aimed at supporting advisors. |
Registered Rep.
June 27, 2011
Diana Britton |
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly It seems like every week, another independent broker/dealer goes under or up for sale because of a bad private placement or other problematic alternative investments. All that turmoil has left a pool of advisors out in the cold, looking for new firms to call home. |
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 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. |
Financial Advisor
June 2010
Jeff Schlegel |
Who's Your Market? Some broker-dealers have niches that set them apart. |
Registered Rep.
July 29, 2013
Diana Britton |
No Man Is an Island Independent broker/dealers are dressing up their offerings to attract and retain advisors tempted to start their own RIAs. |
Registered Rep.
July 6, 2011
Diana Britton |
Another IBD Shutters; Owner Transfers Reps to Another Subsidiary Independent broker/dealer American Beacon Partners was shut down in May by its parent holding company Beacon Acquisition Partners, which then conducted a mass transfer of the IBD's 90 reps to another of its subsidiaries, Allied Beacon. |
Registered Rep.
July 14, 2010
Halah Touryalai |
LPL Acquires Retirement Broker/Dealer LPL continues its growth streak with the acquisition of assets from National Retirement Partners, a California based broker/dealer. |
Registered Rep.
May 2, 2007
Kevin Burke |
It's Not About the Money The firms that have the highest number of satisfied financial advisors aren't necessarily the ones with the highest-paid financial advisors. Industry experts say that what really drives advisors to jump is friction with a supervisor. |
Registered Rep.
June 28, 2013
Diana Britton |
60 seconds with Scott Collins We asked the Director of Advisor Transitions for TD Ameritrade Institutional what can we expect to change in advisor recruiting going forward? |
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? |
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. |
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. |
Investment Advisor
January 1, 2011
Marlene Y. Satter |
Sitting Tight 2010 will be remembered by broker/dealer recruiters as 'The Year of Going Nowhere.' |
Registered Rep.
March 8, 2007
Halah Touryalai |
LPL's Got `Bank.' What's Next? An IPO? LPL's acquisition last week of three Pacific Life Insurance Company b/ds was just one more step in its quest for a successful sale of the company -- or an initial public offering. |
Registered Rep.
February 4, 2013
Diana Britton |
Faking It: Our Third-Annual IBD Report Card Survey The economics of the IBD business haven't changed; independent b/ds are up against it. They're faced with rising regulatory costs and a greater demand for technology investment to stay competitive. |
Registered Rep.
February 2013
David A. Geracioti |
Editor's Letter: February 2013 The editor thanks financial advisors for their survey participation and talks in more detail about the firms that took part. |
Registered Rep.
November 15, 2010
Diana Britton |
How One Wealth Management Firm Intends To Grow Amid Competition At a time when recruitment activity in the independent broker/dealer channel has slowed, Capital Guardian Wealth Management, a hybrid firm, is undergoing a major growth initiative, with plans to add 15 advisors by year-end. |
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.
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. |
Investment Advisor
July 2010
James J. Green |
LPL Financial's IPO: The Competitive Equation How the broker/dealer universe will change with LPL's plans |
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. |
Registered Rep.
August 29, 2014
Megan Leonhardt |
Patching Together an Empire Cetera Financial is now the face of RCAP's independent retail advice segment. How do you keep Cetera's culture from bleeding into all of the other b/ds that RCAP has acquired? |
Registered Rep.
April 29, 2015
Diana Britton |
Advisor Views on The Economy We recently surveyed over 2,000 advisors across channels about their views on the economy and business as part of its 2015 AdvisorBenchmarking All-Channel Report. Here's what they had to say. |
Financial Advisor
July 2012 |
Advisor Emporium First Allied launches Women's Impact Network... Fidelity starts Global Equity Income Funds... ProShares launches Covered Bond Fund... |
Registered Rep.
July 29, 2009
Halah Touryalai |
AIG Advisor Group Sale Is Close The AIG Advisor Group may finally have found a buyer after nine months of operating in limbo. |
Registered Rep.
September 1, 2007 |
Correction Advanced Equities corrects, confirms management program's average production. |
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. |
Registered Rep.
March 9, 2012
Diana Britton |
Yield of Dreams: Could Fisker be to Blame for Advanced Equities' Troubles? The co-founders of Advanced Equities were served up Wells notices related to a private offering in 2009. It's unclear from FINRA filings what private offering they're being investigated for. |
Investment Advisor
March 2007
James J. Green |
Silver Lining Despite the silver lining benefits, the financial advisor community can't just react to regulators and legislators. It must be proactive. |
Financial Advisor
May 2006
Tracey Longo |
What Have You Done For Me Lately? The race is on among independent broker-dealers to recruit more top fee-based advisors. |
Financial Advisor
August 2012
Karen DeMasters |
The Great Migration Though they aren't moving as fast as they were a few years ago, advisors are still in play for independent broker-dealers. |
Financial Advisor
February 2007
Thomas M. Kostigen |
Firm Offers Reps Their Own Hedge Funds Independent broker-dealer First Allied's program raises questions about risk and conflicts. |
Financial Planning
June 1, 2013
Ann Marsh |
FP50: Big IBDs Hit a Speed Bump Is the boom over? After years of double-digit growth, independent broker-dealers hit a rough patch in 2012. We report from the front lines of the FP50. |
Financial Advisor
August 2007
Tracey Longo |
A World For Advisors Broker-dealers across the country are reporting record revenue increases -- a significant portion of these from fee-based business -- and say they're continuing to step up their game in order to recruit advisors with significant practices. |
Registered Rep.
September 25, 2013
Megan Leonhardt |
"I Don't Work for a Wirehouse" Firms' credibility with clients, particularly those attached to banks, took a hit following the financial crisis. Five years later, have the firms earned back client trust? |
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.
September 19, 2011
Diana Britton |
More Advisors Using, Prioritizing Social Media, Survey Says Not only are more advisors using social media for business purposes, but more are making it a priority. |
Registered Rep.
March 31, 2015
Megan Leonhardt |
The Increasingly Happy Broker Generally speaking, the smaller the firm, the happier the broker, according to our fifth Independent Broker/Dealer Report Card survey. |
Registered Rep.
August 23, 2009
Halah Touryalai |
AIG Advisor Group NOT For Sale, New CEO Says After almost a year of looking for the right buyer, AIG's broker/dealer reps were told that they would not be sold. |
Registered Rep.
December 7, 2011
Philip Palaveev |
The Say on Pay: Registered Rep.'s 2011 Compensation Survey Financial advisors continue to expand their practices, work with more clients and receive ample compensation for their efforts. |
Registered Rep.
May 15, 2015
Mindy Diamond |
Nine Ways to Evaluate an IBD With so many IBD options out there, what should an advisor look for to ensure the move he makes is the best one for his clients and his business goals? |
