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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.   |
Bank Technology News
June 2003 |
By the Numbers Total IT spending in the American securities industry is set to decline for the second year in a row. That's not just a big story, it's a huge one. |
Registered Rep.
June 9, 2009
Halah Touryalai |
Fewer Advisors Switch B/Ds in May The number of advisors switching firms dropped 23 percent in May versus April, according to Discovery Database. |
Registered Rep.
April 29, 2009
Halah Touryalai |
Wirehouse Advisors Switch Firms in March The number of reps switching broker/dealers during the month was up 34 percent versus the number who switched in February. |
Registered Rep.
August 5, 2010
Jerry Gleeson |
Poll: Clients Love Breakaway Wirehouse Brokers Breakaway wirehouse advisors never walk alone. A new report by Aite Group on the independence movement shows that reps from the big houses demonstrate superior client retention when they leave their employers. |
Registered Rep.
November 6, 2008
Christina Mucciolo |
Bank Run It might be time to reconsider the stereotype of the bank broker. |
Registered Rep.
April 18, 2012
Diana Britton |
Tiburon's Roame: Less of a Breakaway Trend, More of a `Broken-Away' Trend Whether you agree with him or not, Chip Roame, managing principal of Tiburon Strategic Advisors, is not afraid to tell you exactly how he sees it when it comes to the financial services industry. |
Bank Technology News
November 2001
David Rountree |
Securities Industry Grapples with STP Challenges To completely automate the trade process, U.S. firms will have to spend billions to overcome a bevy of complex obstacles... |
Registered Rep.
September 1, 2004
Will Leitch |
For Advisors, 2003 Was a Better Year The fortunes of advisors took a turn for the better in 2003, according to the annual report from the Securities Industry Association. |
Registered Rep.
December 1, 2004
Mindy Diamond |
Packing the Parachute Success in the brokerage industry can be as much about mindset as anything else, so it comes as little surprise that advisors avoid negative thoughts, such as the potential necessity of a quick exit from their practice. |
Registered Rep.
October 1, 2004
Will Leitch |
Bank Shots For the first time in a year-and-a-half, quarter-over-quarter revenue at bank-owned broker/dealers dropped, by 18 percent, according to a Bank Insurance & Securities Association's (BISA) report on the second quarter of 2004. |
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.
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. |
Registered Rep.
August 1, 2006
Kevin Burke |
Stay Wachovia's not the first firm to offer multiple affiliation options to its reps -- Raymond James has offered something similar for several years -- but it is the first wirehouse-type brokerage house to do so. Ultimately, the model could serve as a blueprint for the retail advisory business. |
Registered Rep.
October 1, 2004
Will Leitch |
The Rep's Ugly Friend As the industry continues its inexorable march toward "wealth management," advisors have had to add new tools to their workbenches. Among all of them, reps seem to have the most trouble getting comfortable with life insurance. |
Registered Rep.
January 8, 2010
Jerry Gleeson |
Wells FA Team Bolts for Moneta, an RIA More proof of the breakaway broker phenomenon, albeit anecdotal? Moneta Group has hired two veterans legacy A.G. Edwards advisors, the company said today, amid a nascent national trend of advisors leaving wirehouses for smaller independents. |
Financial Advisor
August 2006
Tracey Longo |
Late Summer Recruiting While the recruiting party will get tougher some day for broker-dealers who cater to independent advisors and reps, for now they are enjoying their competitive advantage: They give brokers and advisors who want to own their own business the chance to do that. |
On Wall Street
December 1, 2009
Gerri Leder |
Are the Wirehouses as Broken as the Breakaway Brokers Insist? Wirehouse reps who switched firms have begun to show an increasing willingness to jettison the wirehouse model altogether in favor of independence. |
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 11, 2010
Susan Konig |
Advisor Movement Should Pick Up in 2011, Experts Predict Aggressive and lucrative recruitment packages essentially prompted anyone who wanted a big check to move last year, Diamond says. |
Registered Rep.
May 6, 2003
Ross Tucker |
Wall Street Employment: Worst Market Ever? Yup. It's bad out there. The securities industry has lost a record number of jobs, according to a recent report from the Securities Industry Association. But as a percentage of total jobs, the 1973-1974 bloodletting was worse. |
InternetNews
May 17, 2004 |
Securities Industry IT Spend to Hit $71.5 Billion While double digit increases are long gone, the Tower Group finds North American securities industry IT spending on the rise. |
Registered Rep.
October 1, 2005
Christopher O'Leary |
It's in the Bank Wirehouse veterans who have switched to bank brokerages say Wall Street's perception of bank brokerages is stuck in the past, and that the best bank brokerages have become much more competitive in terms of production, assets and compensation. |
Registered Rep.
September 12, 2011
Susan Konig |
Recruiting Has Been Tough in 2011 but Experts Say It Should Improve Next Year As a result of challenges wirehouse managers are looking to recruit from places they typically didn't in the past. |
Wall Street & Technology
January 5, 2007 |
Securities Lending Continues Growth Initially a back-office function handled by large banks and broker-dealers, securities lending now is a major front-office function that occupies a prominent position in many broker and custodian offices. |
Financial Advisor
January 2007
Tracey Longo |
Allure Of Independence Remains Bright Independent broker-dealers step up their recruiting efforts among reps and the already liberated. |
Registered Rep.
February 13, 2012
Jerry Gleeson |
Raymond James Ramping Up Its RIA with New Leadership, Investment The new president, Bill Van Law, said the company plans to make a significant investment in the business in the months ahead. |
Investment Advisor
May 2006
Murphy & Green |
Breaking Away As the number of breakaway brokers continues to rise, broker/dealers and custodians have implemented programs designed to make the broker's transition to independence as seamless as possible. |
Registered Rep.
October 1, 2002
David A. Geracioti |
Outgrowing the Series 7? Registered investment advisors must take the Series 65 exam. As the line between brokers and financial advisors blurs, what responsibilities do brokers that dispense advice and collect a fee based on assets have? |
Registered Rep.
November 30, 2005
Kristen French |
Wachovia Shaves Payout, Levels Charges on In-House and Outside SMAs After simplifying it's payout structure earlier this year, Wachovia Securities announced that it would make some more tweaks in 2006 and raise ticket charges on some in-house money-management products to match those of third-party products. |
Registered Rep.
November 8, 2011
Jerry Gleeson |
Auction Rate Revenge For tens of thousands of investors who were trapped in the auction rate securities debacle that started in 2008, finances are getting back to normal. |
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. |
Investment Advisor
January 1, 2011
Marlene Y. Satter |
Sitting Tight 2010 will be remembered by broker/dealer recruiters as 'The Year of Going Nowhere.' |
Registered Rep.
January 1, 2003
Rick Weinberg |
UBS PaineWebber Cuts Bonuses, Expense Accounts Brokers at UBS Securities received a double hit of bad news in early December. Not only were they informed that the bonuses they receive for assets under management were being cut, but expense accounts are being trimmed as well. |
Registered Rep.
September 22, 2008
John Churchill |
Wall Street's Pain Is RIAs' Gain: Reps Flee Wirehouses, Bring Assets to Fido And Others Despite the still-outsized signing bonuses offered by most Wall Street firms, the steady trickle of brokers leaving wirehouse firms to join or form their own RIA firms is growing. |
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... |
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. |
Financial Advisor
June 2009
Jeff Schlegel |
Money In Motion The economic crisis has wreaked havoc on wirehouses, and more advisors are looking for new opportunities. |
Financial Advisor
November 2011
Jeff Schlegel |
Back In Gear After a slow period, recruiting is revving up again among broker-dealers. |
Registered Rep.
May 1, 2005 |
60 Seconds With David Monday Wachovia Securities' new Individual Investor Group leader talks about his plans for the new division. |
Registered Rep.
October 1, 2002
Rick Weinberg |
Morgan Stanley Boosts Pay for Fee Business Morgan Stanley unveiled a new compensation plan for brokers that rewards fee-based business and penalizes transactional business. |
Registered Rep.
September 13, 2010
Susan Konig |
Wirehouse Recruiting Stalls, Deals Keep Rising but Fewer Advisors Moving These days there are a lot more strings attached to recruiting packages and in the current market they're not great for brokers or firms. |
Registered Rep.
April 2, 2013 |
60 Seconds with Chet Helck Chet Helck is Chair of the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association, and CEO of the Global Private Client Group at Raymond James Financial. |
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? |
Wall Street & Technology
February 15, 2007
Cory Levine |
Mayiz Habbal Joins Celent From Oracle-Siebel Celent has appointed Mayiz Habbal as the new managing director of its securities and investments group. |
Wall Street & Technology
January 20, 2008
Cory Levine |
Fixed-Income Products Fail to Go Fully Electronic New research reveals that not all types of fixed income securities are experiencing rapid electronification. |
Registered Rep.
June 1, 2005
John Churchill |
Wall Street's Big Curtain Call How baby boomer brokers move into retirement over the next 10 to 15 years will change the face of the industry in many ways. |
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.
September 25, 2002
Rick Weinberg |
The Axe Falls at DB Alex. Brown Deutsche Bank Alex. Brown yesterday began laying off employees. |
Registered Rep.
February 8, 2004
Will Leitch |
IT Spending Expected To Rise in 2004 A new study asserts that Wall St. firms are ready to address one of reps' most common complaints in recent years: the lack of resources devoted to internal infrastructure, especially technology. |
