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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.
January 9, 2008
Halah Touryalai |
Smith Barney Snags Three Advisors From Rivals Smith Barney has started off the new year right with a recruiting victory. The firm recently hired three Merrill Lynch reps and one UBS advisor. |
Registered Rep.
November 1, 2004
John Churchill |
Exodus At UBS? This month, the contingent of PaineWebber brokers who remained at UBS following the 2000 merger will receive the final installment of their post-merger retention bonuses, perhaps triggering a mini-exodus of brokers come the first of the year. |
Registered Rep.
August 10, 2004
David A. Gaffen |
Fleeing Brokers Can Take Some Client Info Three of the nation's largest brokerage firms have agreed to make it easier for registered reps to take clients with them when they change firms, eliminating a lot of the cloak-and-dagger antics that brokers often suffer when making a move. |
Registered Rep.
June 1, 2005
Kristen French |
Star Wars Recruiting competition between the top brokerage firms is fiercer than ever, and Morgan Stanley is currently wielding one of the most powerful deals on Wall Street. |
Registered Rep.
December 12, 2006
Halah Touryalai |
Smith Barney Pay Package: Perks Balance Cuts? This week, Smith Barney will become the first firm to make a change to its payout grid as a result of the securities industry's recent battle over broker overtime pay and so-called chargebacks. |
Registered Rep.
February 1, 2003
David A. Gaffen |
An Employer's Market It's a hirer's market out there, but brokerage firms have not stopped recruiting. In fact, although it is quieter than usual, many firms are still willing to pony up big bucks in hopes of attracting top-shelf talent. |
Registered Rep.
August 1, 2004 |
Comings & Goings Sam Vetas, one of Morgan Stanley's top producers has moved... Joe Biondo Sr. recently went independent from Smith Barney... Former Registered Rep. columnist Harry Pappas has switched firms... etc. |
Registered Rep.
June 1, 2004
David A. Gaffen |
Shaking the Tree It's no secret that most firms are frequently looking for well-established producers, financial advisors who have been making big bucks for a decade or more. Top brass always relishes bagging an elephant from another firm. |
Registered Rep.
November 12, 2002
Rick Weinberg |
UBS PaineWebber to Hire 500 Brokers UBS PaineWebber Chairman Joseph Grano announced that the firm is going to hire up to 500 brokers during the next year. |
Registered Rep.
February 23, 2007
Kevin Burke |
Disgruntled Smith Barney Brokers Are Voting with Their Feet Sixty-nine brokers left Smith Barney, just ahead of a three-day weekend. Fridays before a long weekend are historically prime times for unhappy brokers to make a clean break, but the large number of brokers taking off on a single day is alarming. |
Registered Rep.
March 15, 2012
Kristen French |
Did the $5 Debit Card Fee Prompt the Merrill Exodus? Bank of America Merrill Lynch has been bleeding top brokers in the past six months, just as many industry observers predicted. |
Registered Rep.
March 1, 2007 |
Gorman Gets It An interview with Morgan Stanley's James Gorman about the improvement in morale at the firm, what it took to get brokers turned around, what he still needs to accomplish and how Morgan is different from the rest of its Wall Street peers. |
Registered Rep.
January 20, 2004
David A. Gaffen |
UBS Adds HNW Reps in San Fran, Atlanta UBS Securities, which has been one of the most aggressive recruiters of the last year or so in the retail brokerage business, continued its hiring efforts, recently bringing on two large producers from Goldman Sachs. |
Registered Rep.
November 18, 2005
Kristen French |
Smith Barney Cuts Pay for Smaller Brokers The new pay scale was announced to brokers internally in October and will take effect in January. |
Registered Rep.
July 1, 2006
Kristen French |
James Gorman's First Marking Period In his first four months as head of Morgan Stanley's brokerage unit, James Gorman wasted no time showing that a new regime was in place. But he hasn't convinced all the troops that it's worth sticking around to see how his turnaround plans play out. |
On Wall Street
December 1, 2011 |
Who's News Morgan Stanley Smith Barney hired three advisors from UBS Financial Services... Bank of America Merrill Lynch hired Morgan Stanley Smith Barney advisors Raymond Stacy and Christopher Pieper... Wells Fargo Advisors hired advisor Zoran Vaz... |
Registered Rep.
August 13, 2007
Halah Touryalai |
Merrill Grabs Advisors Producing $5.5 million From Rival UBS Merrill Lynch won big last week in the aggressive industry-wide recruiting war for top advisors. |
Registered Rep.
August 6, 2010
John Aidan Byrne |
UBS Advisors Welcome Mortgage Rollout Financial advisors at UBS Wealth Management Americas closely watched this week as the U.S. brokerage rolled out plans to sell more of its own mortgage and lending products through its retail brokerage force. |
Registered Rep.
April 1, 2003
David A. Gaffen |
Your Book or Your Life! What would you do if you lost your book? Where would you turn for new customers? Where could you be hired? Those are questions that keep many advisors up at night. |
Registered Rep.
November 12, 2002
Rick Weinberg |
Wealth Management R Us! The Gnomes of Zurich to Drop Kick the PaineWebber Name The century-old PaineWebber name is going to be dropped from UBS AG's brokerage and investment-banking businesses in 2003, the company says. The new name is to be, UBS Wealth Management USA. |
Registered Rep.
January 1, 2005
John Churchill |
Money for Maturity A shaky market environment in 2004 didn't stop the largest brokerage firms from fighting tooth-and-nail for the best reps, and, heading into 2005, similar rules apply. |
Registered Rep.
November 22, 2005
John Churchill |
For Merrill and Smith Barney Acquisitions, It's Wait n' See The financial firms' respective purchases would have added hundreds of regional brokers to their retail brokerage units, but many of these departing brokers have decided they don't want to work for a big firm and are finding sweet recruiting deals at smaller shops. |
Registered Rep.
December 1, 2002
Ross Tucker |
Happy Holidays! You're Fired. The ax will fall at year's end for some 700 of 13,500 Morgan Stanley brokers. Some branches will be closed entirely. |
Registered Rep.
November 1, 2005
John Churchill |
The Money Squeeze There's one thing that stands between the big retail brokerage firms and the high profit margins that the executives of these firms and their investors seek: the financial advisor. |
Registered Rep.
July 26, 2005
Kristen French |
Morgan Trainee Program Could Get Whacked John Mack is moving quickly to get Morgan Stanley's ailing retail brokerage in shape. |
Registered Rep.
March 7, 2003
Ross Tucker |
Gomez Ranks SSB Web Site Tops for Advisors Salomon Smith Barney retained the top spot in a ranking of brokerage Web sites from Gomez Inc. |
On Wall Street
April 1, 2010 |
Who's News People: David S. Lynn joins Morgan Stanley Smith Barney... UBS Private Wealth Management promotes Frank Minerva to COO... Philip Fett joins JPMorgan Chase... more... |
Registered Rep.
August 1, 2005
John Churchill |
Firms to Recruits: Are You Experienced? Across the industry, companies are upgrading training programs to better prepare reps for the growing demands of the job. |
Registered Rep.
March 15, 2004
David A. Gaffen |
Morgan Ups Offer to Prospective Candidates Industry recruiters say the firm has in recent weeks increased the upfront cash offered to top producers, while adding larger bonuses based on the first two years of production. |
Registered Rep.
May 1, 2006
John Churchill |
UBS Bellies Up to the Acquisition Table With the cost of recruiting and training soaring, firms continue to turn to acquisitions. The recent purchase by UBS of Piper Jaffray's brokerage unit won't be the last as competition for clients and their assets continues to intensify. |
Registered Rep.
October 1, 2002
Rick Weinberg |
Brokers Fear Arbitration... With arbitration cases on the rise, many brokers are worried about the prospect of being dragged through a legal process that, because of the current environment, some believe is heavily slanted toward the client. |
Registered Rep.
November 8, 2010
Kristen French |
Merrill Strengthens Golden Handcuffs For New Hires, Recruits Small Fry To receive all of his recruiting bonus money, a new hire must now stick around for 14 years, instead of nine, and all of the back-end money is now deferred, where a big portion used to be in cash. |
On Wall Street
October 1, 2010 |
Who's News Hiring news from the financial world |
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.
December 13, 2010
Susan Konig |
IBD and RIA Opportunities Arise For Branch Managers As the independent broker/dealer and RIA channels grow, they are creating a viable market for those displaced managers. |
Registered Rep.
May 1, 2006
Kevin Burke |
Failure to Launch Last year, Merrill Lynch's deal to buy Advest was regarded as a savvy transaction. Eight months later, with about 100 reps left, the deal math looks considerably worse. But Merrill may soon have an opportunity to see if it can do better. |
On Wall Street
February 1, 2012 |
Who's News New hires for Merrill Lynch Wealth Management, Morgan Stanley Smith Barney, UBS Wealth Management, and Raymond James. |
Registered Rep.
June 1, 2006
Kristen French |
Hungry for Hires Wachovia hired a whopping 900 reps in 2005, bringing the total to 10,400, and aims to add the same number in 2006, including around 100 rookies. |
Registered Rep.
June 1, 2004 |
Comings & Goings David Harris moved to UBS Securities from Smith Barney... UBS Securities lost a broker to upstart wealth manager Mercury Wealth Management... Carol Rogers recently moved to Linsco/Private Ledger from Wachovia Securities' FINet system... etc. |
Registered Rep.
May 1, 2006
John Churchill |
Score One for Diversity UBS has hired a prominent black Smith Barney broker. |
Registered Rep.
October 5, 2011
John Aidan Byrne |
UBS Says Headhunters Playing Dirty, Unfairly Smearing the Firm Despite extensive media coverage describing nervous financial advisors and clients at the firm, insiders contend that much of this unflattering coverage is over-the-top. |
Registered Rep.
March 1, 2005
John Churchill |
Earnings Forecast: Clouds Give Way to Sun The past year's earnings troubles belie the brokerage industry's sunny prospects for 2005. For advisors, the industry's recent troubles have translated into fewer jobs, but many firms are recruiting aggressively again. |
Registered Rep.
October 1, 2002 |
Warm Bodies Brokerages ranked by number of reps. |
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. |
Registered Rep.
October 1, 2006
Halah Touryalai |
Morgan Joins TRO Pact Morgan Stanley has officially opted to join the inter-brokerage pact, first created in the fall of 2004, which stipulates that members will not sue brokers departing to other firms when they try to take their clients with them. |
Registered Rep.
April 1, 2007 |
Comings & Goings Charles Schwab Corporation has named Walt Bettinger president and chief operating officer... UBS hired Greg Jones as head of diversity for UBS Wealth Management... etc. |
Registered Rep.
February 1, 2003
Will Leitch |
NASD Investigates Potential Breakpoint Violations The confusing slew of regulations that have followed on the heels of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act has tapped a strange feeling in brokers: the fear of violating securities rules unwittingly. A recent investigation by the NASD shows their worries are not unfounded. |
On Wall Street
March 1, 2012 |
Who's News UBS Wealth Management Americas has hired six financial advisors... Morgan Stanley Smith Barney hired Merrill Lynch advisors Philip Ressa and Justin Cho... Barclays Wealth has hired eight financial advisors... |
Registered Rep.
July 28, 2005
Kristen French |
Morgan Confirms Trainee, Broker Cutbacks In an internal memo, co-president Zoe Cruz announced the company would reduce the number of trainees it hires to 1,000 in 2006, from 2,400 this year, while continuing to recruit experienced brokers who focus on high-net-worth clients. |
