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Registered Rep. March 8, 2012 Kristen French	Direct Investment Sites Are Stealing Even More of Your Business There will always be clients who want a local advisor who doesn't work for a big firm, or someone they can golf with. The E-Trade baby may be cute, but it's unlikely he'll keep a tee time with you.
Registered Rep. July 26, 2011 John Aidan Byrne	Online Brokerages Still Grabbing Market Share From Wirehouses Online brokerages continue to take market share from the wirehouses, according to a new report.
Financial Planning September 1, 2011 Donna Mitchell	Happy Mediums Online brokerage giants are taking market share from almost every segment of the financial advisory business - except for RIAs.
Registered Rep. November 30, 2010 John Aidan Byrne	Report: Merrill Edge Threatens Online and Regional Brokers, Not Its Own FAs A new report by research firm Aite Group this week, sees Bank of America Merrill Lynch's recently expanded online brokerage business -- as a serious challenge to the online business of powerhouses such as Charles Schwab and Fidelity Investments.
Registered Rep. December 20, 2012 Diana Britton	Are Your Clients Cheating on You? Probably You may be in denial, but chances are, your clients are cheating on you. A recent report by Cerulli Associates found that 74 percent of investors own a direct investing account, but advisors believe it's much less.
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. 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.
The Motley Fool August 12, 2011 Selena Maranjian	Investing: Do It Yourself and Profit Americans have figured out how to keep more of their money.
Registered Rep. September 30, 2013 Megan Leonhardt	Wirehouse Evolution Far from a dying model, the big brokerages are changing their game.
Registered Rep. January 28, 2011 John Aidan Byrne	Banks Losing Mass Affluent To Online Brokerages U.S. and Canadian banks say developing mass affluent wealth management business is a top priority, but they're not doing enough about it.
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.
Financial Planning December 1, 2008 Brooke Southall	RIA Power Registered investment advisory firms are bringing in more assets these days than are wirehouse brokerage firms.
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.
On Wall Street January 1, 2011 Lorie Konish	Time To Move Past Dark Days After a year filled with slow overall growth and shifting hierarchy with the integration of big names like Bank of America Merrill Lynch and Morgan Stanley Smith Barney, the industry should be ready with more efficient business models and potentially higher profits in the coming year.
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. May 31, 2013 Megan Leonhardt	Sizing Up the Street In the latest earnings cycle, here's how the wirehouses stacked up.
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.
Investment Advisor September 2009 Melanie Waddell	Not So Fast Cerulli Associates data suggests there may be fewer wirehouse brokers breaking away.
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.
On Wall Street August 1, 2010 Aarti N. Maharaj	The Wirehouse Way While the lure of independence has traditionally been viewed as the ultimate siren song for many advisors, many in the industry are finding good reasons to stay with the big companies. And it's not all about the money.
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. July 16, 2010 Jerry Gleeson	A Mixed Second Quarter for Merrill, Schwab Second-quarter earnings results posted today by Merrill Lynch and Charles Schwab Corp. offered a mixed picture to financial advisors hoping for a stronger recovery.
The Motley Fool November 21, 2006	How to Open a Brokerage Account Before you buy stocks, you have to figure out how you'll buy them.
The Motley Fool August 16, 2005	How to Open a Brokerage Account Investing is easy, and it can get you started on a path to financial security.
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.
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.
The Motley Fool November 14, 2006 Selena Maranjian	How Steep Are Some Brokerage Fees? Investors, make sure you do your homework before you choose a broker.
Registered Rep. July 22, 2013 Mindy Diamond	The Long Road Home Wirehouse firms are recruiting more independent advisors to their ranks than ever before.
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.
Financial Advisor January 2009 Eric Rasmussen	Revenge Of The Wirehouses Large Wall Street firms dangle big incentives to hang onto advisors.
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. 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. 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. April 1, 2008 John Churchill	Good Times, Bad Times Shares of the major broker/dealers are getting hammered. The good news is, for those of you who have always wanted to move on, but couldn't because it made you sick to leave unvested options on the table, this may be your moment.
Registered Rep. March 2, 2015 Diana Britton	Crowded Out Some level of competition between advisors and custodians has been around for years. Still, some advisors feel recent events make the distinction between business partner and market competitor less clear.
Financial Planning July 1, 2009 Paul Menchaca	Soft Landing Most Wall Street refugees are taking measured steps toward independence by joining an independent broker/dealer, rather than launching a registered investment advisory practice on their own.
Registered Rep. August 26, 2010 John Aidan Byrne	Neck And Neck, Morgan and Merrill On Hiring Sprees Both firms say they plan to add net financial advisors in 2010, adding to stated plans to sign up 2,000 trainees each this year.
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. October 1, 2010 John Aidan Byrne	Who Will be Number One Among the Wirehouses? A good old-fashioned Wall Street fight for retail assets -- and a fierce tussle over which firm can call itself the Number One retail wealth management firm on Wall Street -- is brewing.
Registered Rep. March 16, 2012 Kristen French	Wire Houses Minting Fiduciary Advisors -- Or Are They? None of the firms will go on record as to whom specifically in the rank and file is adopting the standard, nor will they provide much detail on what that training looks like.
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 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. November 30, 2012 Diana Britton	Withering Wirehouses? Not Quite. Many industry propellerheads have forecasted an exodus of wirehouse advisors to the independent channel as retention bonuses unwind this year.
Registered Rep. February 7, 2012 John Aidan Byrne	UBS' U.S. Brokerage Boosts Profits, Boasts Most Productive Advisors Despite global market conditions that lowered asset-based fees and transaction-based income, UBS Wealth Management Americas ended 2011 on firmer footing, earning $573 million for the year on revenues of $5.96 billion.
Registered Rep. January 21, 2010 Christina Mucciolo	Fidelity Cedes Top "Distributor" Spot to Schwab In Client Survey Affluent investors rated Charles Schwab the number one "distributor" or brokerage firm, bumping Fidelity into second place, according to Cogent Research's recently released 2010 Investor Brandscape report.
Registered Rep. April 15, 2011 Kristen French	Merrill Earnings Strongest Since Bank of America Takeover Bank of America's Global Wealth and Investment Management division, which includes Merrill Lynch, reported its highest earnings since Bank of America's takeover of Merrill in late 2008, as asset management and brokerage fees rose.
The Motley Fool December 8, 2006	Questions to Ask Your Broker Here is some good advice regarding questions you might want to ask your broker before handing over your hard-earned cash. Make sure you get the right answers before you start investing.
Registered Rep. April 1, 2007 John Churchill	Can Schwab's RIA Empire be Toppled? Last year the online-broker-turned-advice-provider extended an already massive lead over rivals Fidelity and TD Ameritrade in RIA asset gathering. Is there no challenger to Schwab's throne?
Bank Technology News March 2011 John Adams	Self Service With An Edge When it comes to attracting wealth management clients, the new focus is entirely on control - specifically giving control to customers via electronic channels.
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.