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Wall Street & Technology
November 29, 2004
Paul Allen |
A.G. Edwards' Grand Plan Deal with Thomson Financial could raise costs in the short term, but it's all part of a long-term technology plan to simplify its infrastructure.   |
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.
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. |
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.
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. |
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. |
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. |
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 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.
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. |
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. |
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. |
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.
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. |
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. |
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.
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.
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.
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. |
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. |
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.
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. |
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. |
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. |
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.
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. |
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 |
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. |
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.
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.
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. |
