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Wall Street & Technology November 29, 2004 Chris Murphy	Long Live Long Term Long-term IT projects -- and even good, old-fashioned mega projects -- haven't completely vanished in this short-term world.
Wall Street & Technology September 23, 2005 Paul Allen	Harnessing Data Timely and accurate data is critical to financial institutions. Despite technology advances in data collection, scrubbing and downstream distribution, such as SOA, most firms still are some way away from achieving a clean, automated data environment.
CIO June 1, 2006 Meridith Levinson	When Failure Is Not an Option Five years ago, almost half of A.G. Edwards' IT projects were late and over budget. Now it boasts an 88% project success rate. How did it do that? By galvanizing IT, reinventing its PMO, and relying on a standard framework to track projects and create accountability.
The Motley Fool September 24, 2004 Nathan Slaughter	A.G. Edwards Misses the Mark The full-service broker reports Q2 earnings just shy of estimates.
Registered Rep. July 13, 2007 Susan Konig	Post Acquisition, A.G. Edwards BOMs Have Tough Job to Do With the Wachovia purchase of A.G. Edwards, it's not just A.G. Edwards reps (some of whom fear that the AGE corporate culture will change) who are worried. So are acquired firm's branch managers.
Registered Rep. June 1, 2005 Will Leitch	Edwards Weighing How to Settle A.G. Edwards is ready to talk about paying for its transgressions in the sale of Class B and Class C mutual fund shares.
Wall Street & Technology October 25, 2004 Cristina McEachern	Calling All VARs Under constant pressure to improve speed and cut costs, business-technology leaders in financial services firms are increasingly turning to value-added resellers for tech help.
Registered Rep. April 20, 2009 Christina Mucciolo	Benjamin Edwards Passes Away at 77 Edwards, 77, was the great-grandson of the company's founder, Albert Gallatin Edwards, and led the former regional for 45 years before retiring in 2001 and assuming the title of chairman emeritus.
Registered Rep. April 20, 2009 Christina Mucciolo	A.G. Edwards Founder Passes Away at 77 Benjamin Edwards III, former chairman, CEO, and president A.G. Edwards, died Monday after a battle with cancer.
Registered Rep. May 31, 2007 Kevin Burke	Wachovia Buys A.G. Edwards for $6.8 Billion, Creating New Rival to Merrill, Smith Barney The deal puts Wachovia among the top three competitors in retail brokerage -- in terms of both assets and advisors -- and retail banking.
The Motley Fool September 21, 2007 Lawrence A. Rothman	Good Deal, Wachovia! Strong quarterly results from A.G. Edwards reaffirm the wisdom of Wachovia's pending purchase. Investors, take note.
Registered Rep. January 21, 2005 Will Leitch	A.G. Edwards Offering Courses for College Credit The firm cleared the classes with the American Council on Education, allowing them to help brokers who are interested to work toward undergraduate degrees with elective credits. The firm claims they are the first retail brokerage to offer such a program.
Registered Rep. May 13, 2003 Will Leitch	A.G. Edwards Ready For Its Close-Up After years of subsisting as a well regarded, lightly publicized regional firm (albeit the largest one), A.G. Edwards is stepping it up a notch. The firm wants to raise its nationwide profile, which is vastly smaller than that of the larger wirehouses.
Registered Rep. June 7, 2004 Will Leitch	A.G. Edwards Signs Tech Deal with Dell A.G. Edwards has struck an outsourcing deal with Dell, under which the computer firm will provide server systems, desktop computers and on-site support to the firm's reps.
On Wall Street January 28, 2010 Lee Conrad	Carrying on a Family Tradition Tad Edwards, son of retired A.G. Edwards CEO Ben Edwards, sets out on his own to recreate his family's financial advising firm.
Registered Rep. May 2, 2007 John Churchill	SEC Fines A.G. Edwards for Failure to Supervise Add A.G. Edwards to the long list of firms that have been fined by the SEC for long-ago failures to supervise brokers who deceptively market timed mutual funds.
Financial Advisor July 2012 Jeff Schlegel	Benjamin F. Edwards & Co. Forges Own Path Not many four-year-old firms have a legacy stretching back to the Lincoln administration.
Registered Rep. June 28, 2007 Christina Mucciolo	Wachovia Securities to Make New Home in St. Louis Federal Antitrust regulators approved Wachovia Corp.'s acquisition of A.G. Edwards. The deal is expected to close in the fourth quarter, most likely in October.
Registered Rep. April 12, 2004 Will Leitch	A.G. Edwards Inks Deal With Morningstar A. G. Edwards signs deal with investment research firm Morningstar to integrate its mutual fund research, data and ratings with Edwards' existing infrastructure.
Registered Rep. August 7, 2006 John Churchill	NYSE Fines A.G. Edwards for Excessive Fees and Failure to Supervise The firm was fined $900,000 for abuses in fee-based accounts. The firm was also charged with failure to supervise staff, including one particularly wayward branch manager.
The Motley Fool June 23, 2005 Stephen D. Simpson	A.G. Edwards Continues to Evolve Efforts to build up the asset-management business should bring greater long-term stability. Though the stock doesn't look like a compelling bargain today, the company is improving itself.
Registered Rep. May 18, 2009 John Churchill	As Wells Fargo Takes Over, Integration at Wachovia and A.G. Edwards Still Faces Hurdles Some financial advisors at what is now the largest retail brokerage firm in the U.S. say the integration of the Wachovia and A.G. Edwards is still incomplete, and leaves much to be desired.
Registered Rep. December 1, 2005 Kevin Burke	A.G. Edwards: Quietly, the Leader of the Pack Building on its strong performance from a year ago, A.G. Edwards lit up the scoreboard this year. Advisors say the St. Louis-based firm has a high-quality work environment, commitment to clients and freedom from pushing certain products.
The Motley Fool September 22, 2005 Stephen D. Simpson	Is A.G. Edwards A-OK? The financial services company doesn't operate like its peers -- and that's a plus for investors.
Registered Rep. November 1, 2006 John Churchill	A.G.E. to Catch a Rep Instead of buying brokers like its peers with offers of big upfront forgivable loans, A.G. Edwards is offering its own reps bonuses for successfully recruiting good reps.
Registered Rep. March 1, 2005 Will Leitch	Back to School at A.G. Edwards A.G. Edwards is not the first brokerage firm to encourage its brokers to continue their educations, but the firm has come up with a novel twist: Its continuing education classes now qualify for college credits.
Registered Rep. June 15, 2007 Kevin Burke	Wachovia Extends Olive Branch to A.G. Edwards Reps. Will They Accept? Just 15 days after it announced it was buying A.G. Edwards, Wachovia Securities announced its retention package for A.G. Edwards reps.
On Wall Street February 1, 2010 Lee Conrad	Wells Fargo: On the Front Lines of the Culture Wars One of Wells Fargo's task after acquiring Wachovia Securities is integrating advisors from both companies into one sales force and keeping them satisfied.
BusinessWeek March 22, 2004 Dean Foust in Atlanta	A Rare Win For Wounded Investors A.G. Edwards is settling with a group of P&G retirees featured in a BW report
Wall Street & Technology October 26, 2005 Anthony Guerra	A Slice of the Boomer Pie Financial firms are upping wealth management spending and examining enterprisewide solutions in hopes of luring mass-affluent clients.
Registered Rep. January 9, 2006 Kristen French	Ed Jones, AG Edwards, Baird: Great to Work For The three regional brokerage firms made Fortune magazine's top 100 companies to work for this year. Brokers at AG Edwards and Edward Jones gave their firms the highest marks for everything from sales support to management to ethics.
Registered Rep. September 29, 2008	Wachovia, The Bank, Saved by Citi; What Will Happen To Wachovia Securities? Firm Says The AGE Integration To Continue Unaffected Citigroup apparently thinks its got enough financial advisors: Citi declined to buy the retail brokerage business -- Wachovia Securities (and A.G. Edwards) -- and the asset management unit (Evergreen).
Registered Rep. November 1, 2002 David A. Gaffen	Requiem for the $250K Broker Until recently, brokers were immune to the industry's downsizing, which has included a decimation of the ranks of investment bankers and the elimination of thousands of support positions. Brokers, it was assumed, covered their own costs by generating commissions and fees. Not anymore.
Registered Rep. December 1, 2005	Registered Rep.'s Broker Report Cards How seven of the nation's largest brokerage firms stack up against each other.
Bank Systems & Technology June 2, 2004 Judy Ward	National Commerce Financial Consolidates Lending Bank streamlines commercial and consumer loan processes with AFS STP platform.
Registered Rep. January 1, 2005	I'm A Broker, You're A Broker At most publicly traded national broker/dealers, about 35 percent of employees are called financial advisors.
InternetNews January 29, 2004 Colin Haley	Thomson's CCBN Buy Ends Corporate Spy Case The financial information giant acquires the online investor relations specialist and in the process does away with a nasty lawsuit.
Investment Advisor August 2007 Kara P. Stapleton	News and Products NASD Chairman Mary Schapiro announced July 12 that the new self-regulatory organization... Raymond James advisors Judith McGee, Sheryl Stephens, and Margaret Starner were listed... etc.
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 Planning May 1, 2006 Pam Black	America's Nest Egg Score A.G. Edwards issued its first quarterly Nest Egg Score, which is designed as a comprehensive indicator of how U.S. households are doing at building wealth. Here are the findings.
Registered Rep. January 10, 2011 Susan Konig	In Tough Year, Unearthing Opportunities For Branch Managers Shifts in the wealth management business could spell opportunity for those managers who are able to reinvent themselves.
InternetNews June 15, 2005 Jim Wagner	Oracle Shows Support For JD Edwards Customers Oracle announced an update to the JD Edwards World application suite.
Registered Rep. July 1, 2004 Bill Singer	Alone In a Crowd Registered reps cannot count on their firms or the regulators to look out for them. Indeed, there's an argument to be made that these institutions cannot be relied upon to use common sense.
Bank Systems & Technology November 1, 2005 Maria Bruno-Britz	Don't Sweat the Small Stuff The head of Wells Fargo's technology operations, communications systems and payments strategies says it's important to look beyond implementing the latest and greatest technology for its own sake but to examine its ability to forward the organization's goals.
Registered Rep. July 1, 2006	Comings & Goings Ty Schommer, Lynn Soiseth, James "Vince" O'Reilly, and Scott Ingrim have joined A.G. Edwards in Anchorage, Ala... RBC Dain Rauscher has named Tim Jones business development director for the firm's Southern region... etc.
Registered Rep. January 31, 2006 John Churchill	A.G. Edwards Cutting Compensation As the brokerage industry moves upmarket and seeks better return on equity and profit margins, the pressure for reps (and their firms) to produce continues to increase.
CIO March 1, 2002 Tom Field	Executive Relationships A majority of CIOs now answer to the CEO, but some of their best relationships are with other executives...
Registered Rep. May 1, 2004 Will Leitch	Five Star Upgrade at A.G. Edwards In the first of what are expected to be many workstation upgrades, the firm has announced a deal with Chicago-based investment research firm Morningstar to integrate the company's research, data and ratings.
Information Today March 5, 2009 Jessica Dye	Thomson Reuters Debuts Streaming Financial Video Service This is narrowcasting, with a mix of live and on-demand, open and closed content from a wide range of sources.
Registered Rep. March 1, 2005 Bill Singer	How Free Training Can Cost You a Bundle The cost of not understanding a broker's training-related commitments is high. Firms do sue to recover training costs and arbitrations panels will render such awards. Here is a short list of myths related to training costs.