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Financial Advisor July 2004 Tracey Longo |
Clearing Firms Come Courting With clearing industry players so clearly targeting advisors, competition for advisor business is likely to get even more interesting very soon. |
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. |
Investment Advisor January 2007 Kathleen M. McBride |
Symbiotic Relationships When broker/dealers select a clearing firm to partner with, it pays to be choosy. Clearing firms innovate to help correspondents thrive. |
Investment Advisor January 2006 Melanie Waddell |
A Notch Higher Broker/dealers expect their clearing firms to act like true strategic partners. |
Financial Planning March 1, 2007 Elizabeth O'Brien |
Clearly, Competition LPL's clearing deal with AXA Advisors prompts questions about recruitment among independent broker-dealers. |
Registered Rep. March 1, 2006 Christopher O'Leary |
It's Not Just About the Trade Because of a massive consolidation wave and a hyper-regulatory environment, financial advisors are interacting with their clearing firms in ways they never did before. |
Registered Rep. March 1, 2008 Christina Mucciolo |
What Can We Do For You? Clearing firms matter to advisors. In fact, one of the biggest deals in the independent b/d business last year hinged on whether the b/ds being sold could maintain their relationships with their old clearing firm. |
Registered Rep. March 8, 2011 Diana Britton |
IBDs Dress Up Offerings For Hybrids Independent broker-dealers have lately been ramping up their efforts to attract hybrid advisors. |
Financial Advisor July 2006 Raymond Fazzi |
They've Got Your Back To win financial advisors' business, custodians are offering to take over the back-office grunt work. |
Financial Advisor September 2005 Raymond Fazzi |
A Question Of Trust Custodians square off in a newly competitive trust services market. |
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. |
Investment Advisor July 2008 James J. Green |
Further Integration at Fidelity Registered independent advisors and broker/dealer arms at Fidelity announce a joint program. |
Financial Advisor June 2007 Sherri Scordo |
Indepedent Broker-Dealers/Financial Advisor's 2007 Snapshot of Leading Firms Advantage Capital Corporation... AIG Financial Advisors... American General Securities, Inc... etc. |
Financial Advisor July 2005 Raymond Fazzi |
Clearing The Field While the clearing firm market has become treacherous terrain for smaller players, who are vulnerable to being either swallowed up or pushed out by larger firms, some smaller firms have managed to implement successful growth strategies. |
Registered Rep. March 5, 2012 Diana Britton |
Your Broker/Dealer May Be Headed for Divorce As independent broker/dealers continue to consolidate and the search for profitability accelerates, some firms may be considering going self-clearing, analysts and industry executives say. |
Financial Planning May 1, 2007 Elizabeth O'brien |
Snagging Breakaways Schwab Institutional and Cambridge Investment Research have joined forces to attract financial advisors turning independent. But just how big is the prize? |
Investment Advisor March 2006 Melanie Waddell |
The Playing Field: Here, There and Everywhere Dually registered advisors (advisors who are registered with both the SEC and the NASD, and are collecting both fees and commissions) have the best -- and worst -- of both worlds. However, a new study shows when implemented properly, the hybrid model can be very profitable. |
Financial Planning June 1, 2008 Philip Palaveev |
Be Careful What You Wish For Understanding the advisor and independent broker-dealer relationship. |
Registered Rep. March 1, 2007 |
The Upstarts There are some upstart custody/clearing firms who are winning business from the behemoths. |
Registered Rep. April 7, 2011 Kristen French |
Switching To Independent Model Keeps Up Pace Migration to the independent financial advisor model -- independent b/ds and RIAs -- is likely to continue unabated in 2011. |
Financial Advisor January 2005 Tracey Longo |
How Fee-Based Programs Led 2004 Brokerage Profits Fee-based profitability is not lost on brokerage executives, who are ramping up programs designed to attract more planners to a fee-based business model and away from traditional commissions. |
Financial Advisor September 2004 Dorothy Hinchcliff |
Here Come The Big Boys Fidelity and Pershing are competing for advisors' trust business. |
Registered Rep. April 2, 2012 Diana Britton |
Concert Breaks Into the Hybrid Market Via LPL Partnership RIA aggregator Concert Advisor Services has launched a new hybrid platform, Concert Advisors, and partnered with independent broker/dealer LPL Financial to provide brokerage and custody services. |
Financial Advisor November 2006 LeBlanc & Brounes |
Embracing The Future Financial advisory affiliates Pershing and Lockwood get the thumbs-up for their vision, a smooth transition and high client satisfaction. |
Financial Planning March 1, 2010 Donna Mitchell |
Open Season NFP Securities says it will become the first independent broker-dealer to offer hybrid advisors a single platform with complete open architecture, empowering advisors to ally with any major custodian they choose. |
Financial Planning August 1, 2010 Donna Mitchell |
Who's Planning? A study by Boston-based AiteGroup found that only 18% of independent advisors make financial planning the center of their practice. |
Financial Planning June 1, 2011 Donald Jay Korn |
FP 50: Revenue Rising The money stream is flowing again: After two years of stagnant or, worse, shrinking revenue, the 50 largest independent broker-dealers report their annual revenues rebounded last year - significantly in many cases. |
Investment Advisor September 2009 Melanie Waddell |
Not So Fast Cerulli Associates data suggests there may be fewer wirehouse brokers breaking away. |
Investment Advisor September 2008 Bob Clark |
Who's Your Daddy? Philip Palaveev's new gig as president of Fusion Advisor Network foreshadows the future of independent advice. |
Financial Planning September 1, 2008 Callahan & Malo |
Hybrid Chic A trend toward hybrids in the financial services industry is emerging. Increasingly, firms, advisors and brokers are establishing practices that manage both commission -- and fee-based businesses. |
Financial Advisor October 2005 Chris Radford |
Practice Management: What The Survey Doesn't Say Because there are no surefire business plans for success, it takes a unique combination for each financial advisor to find the "x-factor" -- that intangible number in every business opportunity that equals ultimate success. |
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. |
Registered Rep. March 1, 2007 Christopher O'Leary |
Meet the New Davids Smaller clearing houses have an advantage in that they promise to keep out of any business that would directly challenge its client's own products and to stick to a core set of services that includes securities lending, custody/clearing and order-management systems. |
Financial Advisor November 2005 David J. Drucker |
Chasing The Wrong Clients? Some think that financial advisors are after the wrong group of wealthy clients. |
Registered Rep. July 29, 2013 Diana Britton |
No Man Is an Island Independent broker/dealers are dressing up their offerings to attract and retain advisors tempted to start their own RIAs. |
Financial Planning June 1, 2008 Elizabeth O'Brien |
Set Me Free LPL Financial staked a bigger claim on the independent advisor market last month with the announcement that the broker-dealer will allow its advisors to do business under their own RIA. |
On Wall Street January 1, 2009 Vanessa Drucker |
Looking to Move On Many wirehouse advisors dream of independence -- will more actually move now? |
Financial Advisor February 2008 Joel Bruckenstein |
Custodians Beef It Up Since advisors' work flows are often intertwined with custodian-supplied technologies, let's take a look at what the custodial firms have in store for 2008. |
Financial Advisor August 2005 Raymond Fazzi |
The Logic Of Multiple Custodians As custodians serving the independent advisor market come and go, and merge and consolidate, many advisors are having a harder time finding a stable home for their clients' assets. In many cases, they're finding that using multiple custodians gets the job done efficiently. |
Investment Advisor August 2010 Melanie Waddell |
Broker/Dealer Marketing: Finding Their Voice Broker/Dealers are waking up to the new, post-downturn marketing environment. Here are a few of the best ideas. |
Registered Rep. June 1, 2005 Kristen French |
Fido Attacks! Long a distant second to Charles Schwab in the lucrative business of serving financial advisors, Fidelity is making an aggressive push to close that gap. And some advisors are taking notice. |
Financial Advisor January 2008 Tracey Longo |
Breakaway Brokers Despite being in business a shorter amount of time than the average advisor, breakaways have more assets under management, higher total revenues and a significantly higher growth rate. |
Financial Advisor July 2005 |
Frontline News Advisors Who Market Their Business Do Better, Study Finds... New Pershing Unit To Work With RIAs... FPA Members Strongly Favor Social Security Reform... Economy Tops Terror As Chief Fear Of Affluent, Survey Says... etc. |
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. |
On Wall Street November 1, 2010 Michelle Lodge |
Advisors List Their Biggest Challenges Complexity isn't the biggest challenge facing advisors. A whopping 86% said they viewed consumers' lack of trust in the industry as their biggest barrier to a thriving business. |
Financial Advisor November 2008 Gail Liberman |
War Breaks Out For Wirehouse Brokers The economic crisis on Wall Street, among many other things, is causing wirehouse brokers to reconsider the value proposition offered by the giant financial service firms. |
Financial Planning July 1, 2009 Joel P. Bruckenstein |
Introducing NetX360 It remains to be seen if Pershing can execute its plan to ensure that clients receive the maximum benefit from their new NetX360 technology. If Pershing succeeds, it could give the company a large technological lead over its competitors. |
Financial Advisor August 2012 Karen DeMasters |
The Great Migration Though they aren't moving as fast as they were a few years ago, advisors are still in play for independent broker-dealers. |
Financial Advisor May 2006 Tracey Longo |
What Have You Done For Me Lately? The race is on among independent broker-dealers to recruit more top fee-based advisors. |
Financial Advisor June 2008 Tracey Longo |
Swimming Upstream California investment advisor John Threlkeld has been working diligently to serve wealthier and wealthier investors, even purchasing two other advisors' practices and turning all but his top clients over to a junior planner. |