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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. |
Financial Advisor March 2012 |
Raymond James Hedges Bets Raymond James Financial Services CEO Dick Averitt related a story of how the independent contractor grew from a relatively small base 25 years ago to the largest part of the brokerage firm's business today. |
Registered Rep. April 21, 2011 Diana Britton |
Raymond James Adds Assets, Loses Advisors Raymond James Financial's Private Client Group led the firm's growth in the second quarter. |
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 14, 2012 Diana Britton |
Yield of Dreams: IBD's Biggest Competition Might be a Custodian As margins continue to be squeezed, IBDs are going to have to get creative with where their revenues comes from, and that means expanding into the RIA and custody market. The question is, who'll make the next move? |
Registered Rep. October 20, 2011 Diana Britton |
Raymond James Posts Flat Earnings, Record Advisor Productivity in Fiscal Q4 CEO Paul Reilly said the private client group had strong performance driven by record advisor productivity. |
Financial Planning January 1, 2010 Stacy Schultz |
Making a Statement When Raymond James bumped up its minimums in November, it positioned itself for a new standard, but could bad timing hinder its strategy? |
Registered Rep. July 22, 2010 Christina Mucciolo |
Raymond James Financial and Wells Fargo Retail Brokerage Units Hang In There A report on earnings from two major financial firms. |
Registered Rep. October 29, 2009 Kristen French |
RJFS Raises RIA minimums, LPL Pulls Past RJ in RIA Assets Raymond James is raising minimums for new RIAs who want to custody assets on its RJFS-IAD platform from $30 million to $50 million. |
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? |
Registered Rep. April 24, 2009 Halah Touryalai |
Raymond James Takes a 2Q Hit -- But Gains Retail Advisors Raymond James Financial posted dismal overall earnings for the second quarter, but its private client group appears to be a bright spot. |
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. |
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. |
On Wall Street March 19, 2013 Bill Willis |
Recruiter's Tour of Raymond James Morgan Keegan employees were required to make a home office visit after their firm was acquired by Raymond James. |
Registered Rep. December 21, 2012 Megan Leonhardt |
Looking Back, 2012 A Mixed Bag For Wirehouses Assets mostly were up, but advisors are on the move. |
Registered Rep. April 2, 2012 Diana Britton |
It's Official: Morgan Keegan Advisors Now Work for Raymond James The next step in the integration process will be to roll out Raymond James' products and services to Morgan Keegan advisors. |
On Wall Street July 1, 2009 Frances A. McMorris |
The Lure of Independence After 14 years as a Merrill Lynch financial advisor, Jason DiLauro set himself up as an independent through Raymond James Financial Services four miles from his previous office. |
Registered Rep. September 1, 2010 Halah Touryalai |
Outgrowing the SERIES 7 There is a coveted cohort of dually registered advisors who are dropping their Series 7 licenses and leaving their b/ds behind. |
Financial Advisor November 2008 Gail Liberman |
War Breaks Out For Wirehouse Brokers The economic crisis on Wall Street, among many other things, is causing wirehouse brokers to reconsider the value proposition offered by the giant financial service firms. |
Registered Rep. December 1, 2011 Kristen French |
Broker Report Card 2011: It's Getting Better All the Time Registered Rep.'s 21st annual Broker Report Cards showed advisor satisfaction ratings creeping higher this year across the board -- on everything from compensation and benefits, compliance support and sales support to products. |
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? |
Financial Advisor November 2011 Jeff Schlegel |
Back In Gear After a slow period, recruiting is revving up again among broker-dealers. |
Registered Rep. July 24, 2009 Christina Mucciolo |
Raymond James Q3 Earnings Down But Retail FA Recruiting A Bright Spot Raymond James is experiencing a rush of interest from apparently disgruntled wirehouse advisors. |
Investment Advisor November 2007 Kathleen M. McBride |
Migration Time Is repapering accounts for 202(a) the last straw for wirehouse reps? |
Investment Advisor September 2009 Melanie Waddell |
Not So Fast Cerulli Associates data suggests there may be fewer wirehouse brokers breaking away. |
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. October 5, 2009 Kristen French |
Citi Bank Brokerage Converts To All Fees Citigroup announced that it would convert its small North American bank brokerage business completely to a fee-on-assets-based fiduciary advice system, and would stop collecting commissions on stock and fund sales. |
Registered Rep. May 1, 2012 Diana Britton |
Comings & Goings: May 2012 Raymond James named Erik Fruland as chief operating officer... M. Kitces has been named a partner at Pinnacle Advisory Group... Matt Lynch has landed at Tiburon Strategic Advisors... |
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. February 23, 2010 Halah Touryalai |
Clients, The New Breakaways First, there was the breakaway broker phenomenon; now, it seems, we have a growing vogue of breakaway clients -- former wirehouse investors who ditch their old advisors for new ones at independent RIAs or broker/dealers. |
Registered Rep. September 27, 2011 Jerry Gleeson |
Want More Prospecting Time? Integrate Your Tech, Study Says The cost of inefficient technology integration at registered investment advisor practices may be more than you would think. |
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. |
On Wall Street August 1, 2012 |
Who's News: Recent Hirings Stifel Nicolaus has hired Richard Ward in Irvine, Calif... Wells Fargo Advisors nabbed five new advisors with $849 million in client assets... Raymond James' employee broker-dealer arm, Raymond James & Associates, has hired Tom Ford and Jeff Jones in Peoria, Ill., from Morgan Stanley Smith Barney... |
On Wall Street October 1, 2011 |
Who's News Bank of America Merrill Lynch hired Wells Fargo advisor Adam Gurien... Morgan Stanley Smith Barney has hired a team of Wells Fargo Advisors...Raymond James & Associates hires three advisors in Hingham, Mass... more... |
Registered Rep. July 5, 2012 Jerry Gleeson |
A League of their Own While the Big Four custodians still dominate the market, some smaller firms are making their presence felt. |
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. |
Financial Advisor January 2004 Dorothy Hinchcliff |
Custodians Are Knocking More custody players have been clamoring for the business of registered investment advisors, and that trend will continue this year, say two well-known research firms for financial institutions and investment managers. |
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. April 27, 2011 Diana Britton |
Poll: Do Recruiters Promise Too Much? A former Raymond James advisor recently filed suit against the broker/dealer claiming an internal recruiter misrepresented the support, technology and compensation the firm could deliver. |
Registered Rep. February 7, 2012 Diana Britton |
Are Regulations Killing the Hybrid Financial Advisor? Some advisors say new compliance and regulatory burdens under Dodd-Frank are making the hybrid model untenable. |
Registered Rep. February 15, 2012 Diana Britton |
More Advisors Fleeing Morgan Keegan Morgan Keegan has lost seven financial advisors since December, FINRA filings show. They follow some 190 other advisors who fled over the past six months. |
Registered Rep. September 30, 2013 Megan Leonhardt |
Wirehouse Evolution Far from a dying model, the big brokerages are changing their game. |
Registered Rep. April 2, 2012 Diana Britton |
Concert Breaks Into the Hybrid Market Via LPL Partnership RIA aggregator Concert Advisor Services has launched a new hybrid platform, Concert Advisors, and partnered with independent broker/dealer LPL Financial to provide brokerage and custody services. |
Registered Rep. October 15, 2010 Jerry Gleeson |
Fewer, But Bigger Breakaway Brokers Joining RIAs With markets stabilizing and bank-brokerage merger integrations progressing, fewer brokers are fleeing the big Wall Street wirehouse firms for the RIAs and independent b/ds in 2010. |
Registered Rep. January 23, 2009 Halah Touryalai |
Raymond James Lookin' Good--But For How Long? The folks at Raymond James have something to smile about -- the company posted positive numbers for the first quarter of fiscal 2009, and managed to beat some analysts' expectations. |
Registered Rep. November 21, 2012 Jerry Gleeson |
Why Wirehouse FAs Pass on the RIA Path Independence is appealing to a growing number of wirehouse advisors, but the RIA route clearly has some challenges for most of them. |
Registered Rep. July 5, 2011 Jerry Gleeson |
Schwab Finds RIAs Posted Record 2010 Revenue, AUM Average profits surged 45 percent last year among registered investment advisors surveyed, but don't look for a repeat of this year. |
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. May 17, 2011 Diana Britton |
Advisors Promised the Moon, But Get Hard Cheese Most advisors said they had been recruited to a broker/dealer at one time or another based on promises that the firm later could not deliver on. |
On Wall Street April 1, 2013 Mason Braswell |
Raymond James' New Breed Pushes Ahead After Morgan Keegan Acquisition The acquisition of Morgan Keegan added hundreds to Raymond James wealth management ranks one year ago. Branch Manager Robert Brewer reveals how he made the transition. |