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Financial Advisor
October 2012
Karen DeMasters |
Competition, Succession Plans Key To RIA Growth The independent financial advisor channel has enjoyed a strong decade of growth, but firms in this space need to understand the changing factors within the industry says a recent white paper by the Alliance for Registered Investment Advisors.   |
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. |
Investment Advisor
January 2006
Maya Ivanova |
Listen Up Financial advisory firms are demonstrating their ability to weather the tough times of the last few years. But to continue their profitability in the future, they need to make client service a priority. |
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. |
Financial Planning
September 30, 2013
Charles Paikert |
Industry Leadership: Ron Carson Taking bold steps is one of the reasons why Ron Carson, chief executive of Omaha, Neb.-based Carson Wealth Management, is Financial Planning's Industry Leadership Influencer Award winner this year. |
Registered Rep.
June 29, 2011
Jerry Gleeson |
Tibergien: Selling Your Practice? Offer a Growth Story Too many advisors see successful practice planning as a career endgame that allows them to sell and move on. That's the wrong way to look at it, says Mark Tibergien. |
Investment Advisor
March 1, 2011
James J. Green |
Human Capitalist At Pershing Advisor Solutions, the emphasis is on putting the right people in the right spots to serve high-end advisors |
Registered Rep.
May 2, 2011
Diana Britton |
Top LPL Advisor Leaves to Start His Own B/D, Eyes Acquisitions Registered Rep.'s top-rated 2010 independent broker/dealer advisor Ron Carson has announced plans to leave LPL Financial |
Financial Advisor
July 2010
Bernie Clark |
Gunning For Growth RIA firms estimate that they'll see 15% revenue growth this year. An emphasis on efficiency will free principals to go after new business again. |
Registered Rep.
October 30, 2014
Diana Britton |
The Rise of the Mini-Aggregator The rise of the "mini-aggregator" is an accelerating trend: Mature, established advisory firms who have built out their own infrastructure are realizing that they can rent out their back offices and operations. |
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.
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. |
Registered Rep.
October 29, 2013
Diana Britton |
Designation Fatigue? Fewer advisors are pursuing or holding designations this year, according to WealthManagement.com's 2013 AdvisorBenchmarking RIA Trend Report. |
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. |
Financial Planning
November 1, 2007
Elizabeth O'Brien |
A Visionary Move An interview with Mark Tibergien, a well-known and respected consultant at Moss Adams, as he takes the helm at Pershing Advisor Solutions. |
Financial Planning
May 1, 2011
Donna Mitchell |
Hybrid's New Groove Registered investment advisor firms looking for ways to expand their businesses might try turning to broker-dealers for a boost. |
Financial Planning
January 1, 2010
Donna Mitchell |
Questions Welcome Mark Tibergien is probably the most important practice management thinker in the financial planning industry -- and he has built his following over decades. |
Financial Advisor
January 2008
Bruce W. Fraser |
Growing Up Over the next five years, the typical RIA will undergo rapid transformation, and the average RIA firm is expected to at least triple in size. To accommodate such growth, hiring decisions will become critical, stretching far beyond the traditional tendency of firms to simply add more advisors. |
Registered Rep.
September 16, 2011
Jerry Gleeson |
RIA Interest in Financial Planning Grows, Industry Data Suggests Financial planning activities are playing a growing role in the service offerings of registered investment advisors. |
Registered Rep.
December 4, 2012
Jerry Gleeson |
Taking Care of Business A survey this year by REP./Wealth Management.com shows how RIA attitudes differ from those among advisors in other channels. |
Registered Rep.
August 1, 2005
Matt Barthel |
RIAs in Flux The pioneering ways of registered investment advisors (RIAs) are coming back to bite them. Once on the cutting edge of "holistic" financial planning and fee-based client relationships, RIAs are now just one of a pack of firms offering such services. |
Registered Rep.
October 20, 2010
Charles Paikert |
Make Room For More Wealth Firms With National Reach The already crowded field of wealth management firms who want to go national is getting more crowded, still. |
Registered Rep.
December 20, 2010
Diana Britton |
RIAs Reinvesting in Their Firms Despite Economic Uncertainty Forty-six percent said they are optimistic about the direction of the economy, up 30 percent from last quarter. |
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.
March 14, 2012
Jerry Gleeson |
The Long Goodbye This year, about 3,200 mid-sized RIAs will say goodbye to the Securities and Exchange Commission, transferring their registration to the states where they do business. |
Financial Planning
October 1, 2006
Marshall Eckblad |
Advisor Pulse The registered investment advisor market continues to add assets at a hefty rate. |
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. |
Registered Rep.
June 2, 2015
Megan Leonhardt |
Compensation Survey 2015: The Slowly Disappearing Commission Moving from a commission-based business to one based on fees, advocates argue, removes conflicts and puts advisors on the same side of the table as their clients. |
Financial Advisor
July 2011
Bernie Clark |
A Record Year For RIAs Discipline both on the expense and client care sides has created sound business practices for an evolving RIA industry. |
Investment Advisor
November 2009
James J. Green |
Editor's Note: At Least One Booming Market One sector of the economy appears to be booming and that's the survey industry. |
Registered Rep.
October 15, 2009
Christina Mucciolo |
Schwab Q3 Earning Down, But the Race For RIA Assets Is Hot Charles Schwab reported a 34 percent drop in its third quarter earnings, the firm's third consecutive quarter of slowing earnings this year. |
Registered Rep.
February 2, 2011
Diana Britton |
RIA M&A Hits Record in 2010, More To Come In 2011 Registered investment advisory firms were furiously busy getting hitched last year: they did the highest number of merger and acquisition deals recorded in at least seven years. |
Financial Planning
January 1, 2013
Donald Jay Korn |
Top Custodians: Battling for Custody Custodians try different strategies for growth as advisors break away to join RIA firms. |
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. |
Investment Advisor
October 2008
Maya Ivanova |
War Room How the most successful advisory firms are mitigating risk on two fronts: for their clients, and for their own businesses. |
Financial Advisor
March 2012
Bernie Clark |
The Changing RIA Advisors need to start thinking bigger and go beyond their current capabilities. |
Financial Advisor
August 2012
Jon Beatty |
A Promising Road Advisors are enjoying strong growth despite significant challenges in the financial markets. |
Investment Advisor
November 2009
James J. Green |
Advisors Need to Think More Broadly, Act More Creatively In the tenth iteration of the Rydex AdvisorBenchmarking study lessons from the crisis can be gleaned. |
Financial Planning
April 1, 2010
Donna Mitchell |
Going for Growth As RIAs gear up to grow their practices this year, they are doing more than scooping up unhappy wirehouse clients. They have identified three major strategies: increase spending on marketing, more technology, and improve client service. |
Financial Advisor
August 2010
Raymond Fazzi |
Looking To Streamline Now that they've experienced the harsh consequences of poor business management, fee-based advisors are looking to their custodians and broker-dealers for all the help they can get. |
Registered Rep.
October 8, 2015
Megan Leonhardt |
Breakaway Advisors Moving More to Existing RIAs More advisors are looking to leave the wirehouses and brokerages by joining an existing registered investment advisory firm, rather than starting their own. |
Investment Advisor
July 2006 |
Upgrades Pershing LLC announced healthy growth in the number of RIAs custodying client assets and trust accounts through its Pershing Advisor Solutions unit... Charles Schwab & Co. announced June 14 a broad reduction and simplification of pricing for its retail... etc. |
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
October 1, 2011
Donna Mitchell |
Knowing Their Worth Many advisors are squeamish about taking anything other than a flat percentage fee for assets under management. |
Registered Rep.
February 7, 2012
David A. Geracioti |
Von Aldo: AMTD Institutional Promotes Bradley, Nally Just two days after the close of iTD Ameritrade Institutional's annual gabfest, Tom Bradley, the president of the institutional unit, was named head of TD Ameritrade Holdings' retail distribution unit. Succeeding him will be Tom Nally. |
Financial Planning
June 1, 2008
Elizabeth O'Brien |
Millionaires Ahoy! Independent advisors who are looking to snag more millionaire clients should focus their efforts on prospects who do not already have a registered investment advisor, according to a new study by Fidelity Investments. |
Registered Rep.
September 24, 2014
Jerry Gleeson |
Custodian Castoffs Scottrade won't comment on the number of advisors it culled last summer, but other custodians say they've seen a sharp increase in the number of former Scottrade advisors who are now looking for a new home. |
Registered Rep.
November 29, 2011
Charles Paikert |
Practice Management Gurus' Advice for Tough Times: Target Your Ideal Client Peak Advisor Alliance, the country's largest coaching and resources program for financial advisors, added two high-profile specialists, Vickie Seitner and Scott Wood, as executive business coaches. |
Financial Advisor
July 2011
David Lawrence |
The Mobile Advisor Is working without an office a viable business model? |
Registered Rep.
July 7, 2010
David A. Geracioti |
Compensation 2010. Crisis? What Crisis? 2009 income for RIAs -- while lower than 2008, in some cases by a lot -- rebounded fairly nicely, bringing earnings back to 2007 levels. |
