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Registered Rep.
November 17, 2011
Jerry Gleeson |
Managed Account Offering Takes Aim at Costs Lowering costs for managed accounts can be done with top-end technology, but it's not a primary goal in the space.   |
Registered Rep.
April 2, 2013
Diana Britton |
Comings & Goings: April 2013 Scott Collins, former CEO of FirstPoint Partners, has moved to TD Ameritrade Institutional... Raymond James has named Vin Campagnoli as chief information officer... Convergent Wealth Advisors has hired John Mastal as managing director... |
Financial Advisor
November 2011 |
Frontline News Managing volatility in unstable markets... Patent -- and potential hassles -- pending over wealthcare case... Bank on it (not)... |
Financial Advisor
August 2006
Raymond Fazzi |
Custodians Duel Over New Services Competition in the fee-based advisory field and the pressure to grow assets and operations is not only forcing changes upon advisors, but also the custodians who serve them. |
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. |
Investment Advisor
September 2009
Lewis Schiff |
The Affluentialist: Building Retirement Portfolios Now Few advisors use a cookie cutter approach to retirement income support. |
Registered Rep.
February 29, 2012
Jerry Gleeson |
It's a Tough Route for Younger Advisors Anew report by Charles Schwab, which shows that advisors under the age of 40 are more likely than their older peers to feel pressure to grow their book of business, or to focus on selling proprietary products. |
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.
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. |
Registered Rep.
December 2, 2010
Susan Konig |
Former Branch Manager Recruits UBS Advisors With $1 billion Two advisors from UBS' Houston branch resigned from the firm to join their former UBS branch office manager, Patrick Mendenhall, at Houston-based U.S. Capital Advisors, the wealth management advisory firm he formed in September |
Financial Advisor
September 2010
Carty & Carty |
Both Sides Of The Ledger Barra co-founder Andrew Rudd is helping advisors build portfolios that balance client resources against future claims. |
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.
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
April 2009
Lewis Schiff |
Danger & Opportunity: Seling Wisdom Advisors with a wealth-management practice orientation can provide the kind of services affluent families need during difficult market times. |
Financial Advisor
November 2005
Tracey Longo |
All For Advisors Brokerage executives are doing their best to deliver the tools advisors need to move their business to the next level, while still remaining efficient. That includes streamlined technology, investment and rebalancing selections, outsourcing, practice management and business development assistance. |
Financial Planning
October 1, 2009
John J. Bowen Jr. |
Success on Purpose The right practice framework is essential to reaching success in the financial advisory industry, and the most important aspects of this framework fit into seven categories. |
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. |
Financial Advisor
February 2004
Sydney LeBlanc |
Stature, Service, Size, Simplicity Schwab, Fidelity and Waterhouse are building sophisticated SMA (separately managed account) platforms. |
Financial Planning
June 1, 2008
Elizabeth O'Brien |
Set Me Free LPL Financial staked a bigger claim on the independent advisor market last month with the announcement that the broker-dealer will allow its advisors to do business under their own RIA. |
Registered Rep.
August 25, 2010
Halah Touryalai |
Better Economic Times Ahead? Your Clients Don't Think So. Advisors seem more optimistic about the economy than their own clients, according to a recent survey. |
Financial Planning
June 1, 2012
Ackermann et al. |
Hot Topics Ultrawealthy increase allocation to aternative investments... Independent broker-dealers struggling to survive... LPL nabs $560M team... |
Registered Rep.
March 8, 2011
Diana Britton |
IBDs Dress Up Offerings For Hybrids Independent broker-dealers have lately been ramping up their efforts to attract hybrid advisors. |
Registered Rep.
July 27, 2011
Diana Britton |
LPL Posts Record Revenues, Asset Levels; Adds 100 Reps LPL Financial reported record revenues in the second quarter of $894 million, a 13.1 percent gain. |
Financial Advisor
March 2012 |
UBS Reeling In Merrill Advisors The big four wirehouse firms are always trying to poach top talent from their rivals, but UBS Wealth Management seems to be doing a particularly job good job of late when it comes to snagging advisor teams from Bank of America/Merrill Lynch. |
Financial Advisor
October 2006
Michael Brier |
Patently Foolish? Allowing financial firms to patent tax strategies may mean you and your clients have to foot the bill. |
Financial Planning
June 1, 2012
Donna Mitchell |
Aiming Lower Mass-market investors, with their relatively tiny net worth but big growth potential, are attracting increased attention from the financial planning industry. Two major companies have announced forays into this market sector. |
Financial Advisor
July 2006
Dorothy Hinchcliff |
Climbing A Stairway To Heaven As boomers age and spend their savings, financial advisors will need to adapt their practices. |
On Wall Street
August 1, 2009
Susan Konig |
Dream Teams In a recent survey, 80.7% of financial advisors polled cited improved efficiency as a very important advantage to working in a team environment. |
Financial Planning
May 1, 2007
Elizabeth O'brien |
Snagging Breakaways Schwab Institutional and Cambridge Investment Research have joined forces to attract financial advisors turning independent. But just how big is the prize? |
Registered Rep.
August 26, 2011
Jerry Gleeson |
Schwab Apologizes Over Sales Pitch to Advisor Clients Schwab found itself apologizing for violating its own policy of pitching portfolio products to retirement plan sponsors who were clients of retail financial advisors and turnkey asset management programs that have custodial relations with the firm. |
Financial Advisor
January 2009
Rebecca Pomering |
Turning Turbulence Into Growth Turmoil is creating big opportunities. |
Investment Advisor
January 2007
Ivanova & Kahler |
The ABCs Of Retirees To meet the needs of retiree clients, financial advisors will need to beef up their knowledge not only of investment-related retirement issues, but also non-investment areas. |
Registered Rep.
September 30, 2014
David Armstrong |
Editor's Letter: October 2014 The wealth inequality gap is not between rich and poor, it's between the high-net-worth households and everyone else, including the middle class, who have not seen a significant increase in their middling net worth in over a decade. |
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. |
Bank Technology News
September 2002
Elizabeth Logue |
Wealth management: Advisors Finally Waking Up to the Internet's Useful Influence Bucking the market once again, Charles Schwab is doing the unthinkable: encouraging financial advisors to use the Internet to service affluent customers. |
Investment Advisor
March 2010
James J. Green |
Lightyear Buys ING B/Ds Private equity firm Lightyear Capital LLC has completed its acquisition of the three independent broker/dealers that formerly constituted the ING Advisors Network. |
On Wall Street
November 1, 2010
Gallant & Schneider |
Navigating The Retirement Business The demand for retirement income support will continue to grow rapidly in the coming years as the aging of the baby boom generation is inevitable. |
Financial Planning
November 1, 2012
Elson et al. |
Hot Topics Rosy outlook for advisory firms... Changes coming for ce credit... Retirement sweet spot... |
On Wall Street
January 1, 2009
Vanessa Drucker |
Looking to Move On Many wirehouse advisors dream of independence -- will more actually move now? |
Registered Rep.
August 8, 2011
Jerry Gleeson |
Schwab: Franchisees Can't Poach RIA Clients Advisors who are considering Charles Schwab's new independent branch program are being told they will have to abide by the company's contact policy. |
Registered Rep.
May 14, 2015
Megan Leonhardt |
LPL Incentivizes Hybrid RIAs to Bring Assets Over LPL Financial is offering its hybrid advisors up to $100,000 to shift their assets held elsewhere to LPL's advisory platforms, according to an internal communication sent to advisors Wednesday. |
Financial Advisor
June 2010
Simonoff & Rasmussen |
Tall Task Building an in-house business consulting group, Derek Bruton is trying to help advisors at LPL adapt to the Darwinian business climate. |
Financial Advisor
November 2005
David J. Drucker |
Chasing The Wrong Clients? Some think that financial advisors are after the wrong group of wealthy clients. |
Registered Rep.
July 21, 2006
Kristen French |
Advisors Not Filling High-Net-Worth Retirement Needs, Survey Says Although few high-net-worth investors are prepared for the kind of retirement they expect, advisors continue to focus on wealth accumulation at the expense of long-term financial planning. |
Financial Advisor
November 2009 |
Frontline News Advisor News: Poll on advisor pay... Citi Embracing Fee-Only Model... RIAs Set Record For Repurchasing Their Firms... FINRA Expands Arbitration Pilot Program... SEC Expects To Examine 9% Of RIAs Annually... more... |
Financial Advisor
July 2012
Bernie Clark |
The RIA Universe Advisors should look not just at their own internal business practices but also at the changes and trends occurring across the RIA field. |
Financial Advisor
March 2012
Bernie Clark |
The Changing Affluent Investor Advisors must prepare for new affluent clients and the changes, attitudes and expectations they will bring with them. |
Registered Rep.
January 1, 2003
David A. Gaffen |
Wachovia Software Emphasizes Goals Wachovia Securities wants advisors to know where their clients want to be, not just where they are now. The firm plans early this year to unveil a new software package for its advisors to help clients figure out their retirement goals and the appropriate investments to get them there. |
Financial Planning
April 1, 2013
John J. Bowen, Jr. |
5 Success Tips From High-Performing Advisors A new study of high-earning advisors offers 5 clear success tips. |
Financial Advisor
November 2009
Bruce W. Fraser |
Shifting Landscape A shifting economic environment is also changing financial advisors' practice management world. |
