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Financial Advisor
March 2012 |
So You Think You're A Financial Planner? A recent study from industry research firm Cerulli Associates looked at advisors across all channels and compared how they describe themselves with how they actually do business.   |
Registered Rep.
September 30, 2013
Megan Leonhardt |
Wirehouse Evolution Far from a dying model, the big brokerages are changing their game. |
Investment Advisor
September 2009
Melanie Waddell |
Not So Fast Cerulli Associates data suggests there may be fewer wirehouse brokers breaking away. |
Registered Rep.
November 6, 2012
John Aidan Byrne |
DIY Platforms Are Gaining the Mass Affluent Pressure to serve only the wealthiest, wirehouses are ceding the mass affluent to the independent, DIY brokerage platforms. Indeed, "direct" brokerages are beginning to offer more advice. |
Registered Rep.
February 7, 2012
Kristen French |
More Advisors Wearing Investment Management Hat Financial advisors at broker/dealers are increasingly taking the reins on their clients' fee-based accounts, according to a report out from Cerulli Associates today. |
Registered Rep.
June 5, 2012
Diana Britton |
A Regional Resurgence After years of being considered acquisition targets, regional broker/dealers may be making a comeback. |
Financial Planning
October 1, 2009
Conrad & Mitchell |
Indies' Gain Ground Registered investment advisor firms, independent broker-dealers and dually registered advisors are gaining market shares at the expense of wirehouses. |
On Wall Street
September 1, 2011
Lorie Konish |
Morgan Stanley Smith Barney's $1 Trillion Target Morgan Stanley Smith Barney focuses on growing its Consulting Group division, where it aims to double the assets in the managed account group to more than $1 trillion within the next five years. |
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.
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.
February 1, 2005 |
By the Numbers Top 10 Broker/Dealers, by Advisor Headcount: Merrill Lynch... Wachovia... Smith Barney... Morgan Stanley... etc. |
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.
May 31, 2013
Megan Leonhardt |
Sizing Up the Street In the latest earnings cycle, here's how the wirehouses stacked up. |
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. |
Registered Rep.
May 1, 2008 |
It's Okay to Outsource The number of financial advisors who say they regularly outsource at least a portion of the portfolio-construction process more than doubled to 34 percent in 2007, up from just 14 percent in 2006. |
Registered Rep.
April 21, 2010
Jerry Gleeson |
Morgan Stanley Profits Rise, Advisor Count Flat Morgan Stanley on Wednesday reported higher-than-expected revenues and profits in the first quarter, lifted by its acquisition last spring of Smith Barney and by higher fixed income. |
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. |
Registered Rep.
January 22, 2015
Ryan W. Neal |
Advisor Industry Shrinks While Assets Continue to Grow A recent report by Cerulli Associates found that the industry shrank 1.9 percent to 287,119 advisors in 2013. Asset levels, however, are on the rise. |
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. |
On Wall Street
February 1, 2010
Elizabeth Wine |
The Battle For Super Star Advisors: Can It Be Sustained? The raucous bidding war for talent has been raging even as the industry reels from the financial crisis, leaving the casual observer to think 2010 should result in a cease fire. |
Registered Rep.
August 29, 2012
Jerry Gleeson |
Devil Take the Hindmost The headlines in the media note that advisor headcount was down 2.3 percent overall in 2011. But it was the independent broker/dealer market that accounted for the biggest hit in the numbers. |
Registered Rep.
September 11, 2009
Halah Touryalai |
Survey Says: Wall Street Advisors Going...Wait For It...Independent! Wall Street wirehouse firms are expected to see a net loss of $188 billion in client assets to other channels in the industry, including RIAs, independent broker/dealers and regional b/ds. |
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 1, 2006
Kristen French |
Independent Channel Big and Getting Bigger Every financial-advice channel grew in terms of advisor headcount in 2005 except for the regional and bank broker/dealers, according to recently released research. |
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.
December 16, 2009
Halah Touryalai |
Wirehouse Switching Slows in Second Half of 2009 In November, just 177 advisors in the wirehouse channel switched firms, the smallest monthly number all year, according to Discovery Database. |
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.
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. |
Financial Planning
February 1, 2010
Donna Mitchell |
More Money in Motion During the financial crisis, the majority of high-net-worth clients maintained accounts with at least two financial advisors, Boston-based Cerulli Associates said in a January report. |
Registered Rep.
July 30, 2012
Jerry Gleeson |
Failing at Succession? Cerulli Associates estimates that nearly 60 percent of advisors who are within five years of retiring expect to sell their business to an unidentified buyer. Five years is not enough time. |
On Wall Street
September 1, 2010
Howard J. Stock |
Talent Shortage Grips Firms As Financial Advisors Age After years of recruiting only established, top advisors in the so-called "war for talent" instead of hiring younger employees and training them, the industry is now facing a shortage. |
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. |
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. |
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.
May 8, 2013
Diana Britton |
Moving on Up: Go Independent and Make More $ Advisors who switched firms saw a jump in their compensation, especially among those who went independent. |
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.
January 6, 2010
Halah Touryalai |
Wirehouse FAs Switching B/Ds Slows The number of wirehouse advisors switching broker/dealers has been in steep decline since June. |
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. |
Registered Rep.
September 26, 2013
Megan Leonhardt |
Bigger Is Better There's a perception that there is less innovation in the wirehouses than the independent channel. |
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. |
Registered Rep.
April 1, 2008
Kristen French |
Runaway Growth: Rep-As-Advisor Assets Explode In the past year, as a result of the end of asset-based fees in non-advisory managed-account programs, assets in nondiscretionary rep-as-advisor programs have ballooned. |
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. |
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.
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? |
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.
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. |
Registered Rep.
June 1, 2009
David Geracioti |
Can You Say, "Morgan Stanley Smith Barney?" The Joint Venture Launches Today The deal merging Citi's brokerage (Smith Barney) with Morgan Stanley's Global Wealth Management Group is closed -- ahead of schedule. |
Registered Rep.
November 17, 2014
David H. Lenok |
Study Shows MFOs on the Rise Cerulli Associates recently released the 2014 edition of their annual study on high-net-worth (HNW) markets, and the main takeaway is that advisors are buzzing over family offices. |
Registered Rep.
April 17, 2009
Halah Touryalai |
Smith Barney Losing Advisors, Client Assets But while Smith Barney is losing reps, it also appears to be recruiting heavily. |
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? |
