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Financial Advisor
August 2005
Joel P. Bruckenstein |
Pershing Pushing For RIA Business Pershing LLC is aggressively pursuing opportunities in the registered investment advisor (RIA) market segment, and has renamed its key advisor support group as part this new push, company officials said.   |
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. |
CRM
January 2011
Lauren McKay |
Collecting Feedback Makes Cents A financial services firm invigorates its VOC program to better understand its business -- and its customers |
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. |
Investment Advisor
September 2008
Melanie Waddell |
Striking While the Iron Is Hot Under the direction of Ron Fiske, Fidelity's HybridOne platform aims to serve the booming dually registered market. |
Investment Advisor
January 2006
Melanie Waddell |
A Notch Higher Broker/dealers expect their clearing firms to act like true strategic partners. |
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. |
Wall Street & Technology
June 13, 2006
Paul Allen |
CIO Challenge Lately, it seems that one investment management firm after another is outsourcing back-office functions. But as providers expand their service offerings beyond the back office, how do CIOs determine which functions to keep in-house? |
Financial Planning
January 1, 2006
Robert Hertzberg |
Pershing's Moment of Truth As fees shrink and clients consolidate, the nation's No. 1 clearing firm has to sell new services to maintain its margins. |
Investment Advisor
July 2010
James J. Green |
Pershing's Mobile Apps The NetX360 platform used by most brokers/dealers is going mobile. |
Investment Advisor
May 2009
James J. Green |
Pershing Service for RIAs at B/Ds Pershing LLC introduces a new service for its affiliated broker/dealer firms called RIA Complete. |
Registered Rep.
May 5, 2008 |
LPL Financial Heats Up The RIA World The largest independent broker/dealer in the U.S. announced today it's going to launch an RIA custodian later this year, which will serve both hybrid and fee-only investment advisors who operate independent RIAs. |
Investment Advisor
July 2008
James J. Green |
Pershing Welcomes a Multitude Bolstered by success of registered independent advisors, Pershing, the big broker/dealer clearing and RIA custodial firm, celebrates big. |
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
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.
June 1, 2010
John Aidan Byrne |
Bank of America Ramps Up Online Brokerage Bank of America is making a push into electronic brokerage services, a menu that includes free online trading and a new platform called Merrill Edge, set to debut in late June. Some say the new services will steal business from Merrill advisors. |
Bank Technology News
March 2011
John Adams |
Self Service With An Edge When it comes to attracting wealth management clients, the new focus is entirely on control - specifically giving control to customers via electronic channels. |
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 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. |
Investment Advisor
July 2007
Jonathan Henschen |
B/Ds in the Year 2010 What the future holds for independent broker/dealers: technology... outsourcing... marketing... practice management... succession planning... alternative investments... fees... |
Investment Advisor
January 2008
Kathleen M. McBride |
Clearly Profitable It's an evolution revolution at the big clearing firms. |
On Wall Street
April 1, 2010
Howard J. Stock |
Back Office Move Has Advisors Up In Arms -- Some Bolt Questions surround what will happen to BAI clients when Merrill moves their accounts from National Financial to Merrill Lynch. |
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. |
Registered Rep.
November 30, 2010
John Aidan Byrne |
Report: Merrill Edge Threatens Online and Regional Brokers, Not Its Own FAs A new report by research firm Aite Group this week, sees Bank of America Merrill Lynch's recently expanded online brokerage business -- as a serious challenge to the online business of powerhouses such as Charles Schwab and Fidelity Investments. |
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. |
Financial Advisor
September 2004
Dorothy Hinchcliff |
Here Come The Big Boys Fidelity and Pershing are competing for advisors' trust business. |
Investment Advisor
June 2006
Kathleen M. McBride |
Stretched For broker/dealers who are already stressed, dually registered advisors are a challenge being met in varied ways. |
Registered Rep.
March 5, 2012
Jerry Gleeson |
Team Swaps Merrill for Hightower Over Frustration with International Biz Jordan Waxman, Kenneth Hoffman and Richard Steinberg left Merrill Lynch and joined HighTower, the Chicago-based national registered investment advisor. |
Investment Advisor
May 2008
Kathleen M. McBride |
What Lurks Beneath There are many registered independent advisors and broker/dealers for whom the Bear Stearns debacle is much more than an academic exercise. |
Registered Rep.
November 6, 2008 |
Bank Of America To Sign Protocol, Herd Still Weighing Options Bank of America intends to sign the so-called "broker protocol," an agreement signed by most of the brokerage firms and RIAs stipulating what client information is acceptable for a departing financial advisor to take without getting sued by the former employer. But when? |
Registered Rep.
December 1, 2004
David A. Gaffen |
Merrill Watching Consolidation with Eyes Wide Open James Gorman, head of Merrill Lynch's private client group, believes the brokerage industry will continue to consolidate in the coming years. |
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. |
The Motley Fool
July 18, 2007
Matt Koppenheffer |
Dissecting Merrill's Earnings A second look at the bumper earnings from Merrill Lynch. Investors, take note. |
Registered Rep.
May 1, 2004
David A. Gaffen |
Mother Merrill's Extreme Makeover A 12-year veteran of Merrill Lynch has noticed a pronounced improvement over the years in the way clients perceive him and his colleagues. |
Investment Advisor
June 2009
James J. Green |
Best of Times, Worst of Times Securities America and Capital Analysts have responded to the financial crisis in quite different ways. But they're also quite similar in how they're proactively changing their business models to help reps and the home office thrive |
Financial Advisor
July 2007
Tracey Longo |
The Big Picture Clearing firms stake their future on helping financial advisors' businesses grow. |
On Wall Street
September 1, 2009
Helen Kearney |
On Life Support a Year Ago, Merrill Pays for Top Producers Merrill, under BofA, seems to be on the hunt to add to its ranks, and it's offering a very competitive package that has almost unlimited upside for top producers. |
Investment Advisor
July 2007
James J. Green |
Focus on the Optimal Client RIAs are counseled to get serious about the future. |
Investment Advisor
March 1, 2011
James J. Green |
Human Capitalist At Pershing Advisor Solutions, the emphasis is on putting the right people in the right spots to serve high-end advisors |
The Motley Fool
April 20, 2007
Matt Koppenheffer |
Party On, Merrill! For investors in the brokerage industry, it would appear that the party still isn't over. Merrill Lynch delivered knockout first-quarter results. |
Registered Rep.
October 22, 2002
Rick Weinberg |
Merrill to Reps: Go Get 401(k) Business Merrill Lynch advisors are now going to offer participants in Merrill-run retirement plans specific buy and sell recommendations. Indeed, participants may elect to turn over all investment decisions to Merrill advisors. |
Registered Rep.
February 1, 2006
Kevin Burke |
Hired and Fired Up The biggest brokerage businesses are showing that even in a modest market upswing they now have in place a strategy for delivering stronger and steadier sales and earnings growth. |
Financial Advisor
November 2009
Raymond Fazzi |
Tales Of Breakaway Brokers Fridays on Wall Street not only signal the end of the workweek. For many breakaway brokers, the day marks the end of their wirehouse careers. |
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. |
Registered Rep.
October 1, 2010
John Aidan Byrne |
Who Will be Number One Among the Wirehouses? A good old-fashioned Wall Street fight for retail assets -- and a fierce tussle over which firm can call itself the Number One retail wealth management firm on Wall Street -- is brewing. |
Financial Planning
December 1, 2008
Brooke Southall |
RIA Power Registered investment advisory firms are bringing in more assets these days than are wirehouse brokerage firms. |
Investment Advisor
July 2006 |
Upgrades Pershing LLC announced healthy growth in the number of RIAs custodying client assets and trust accounts through its Pershing Advisor Solutions unit... Charles Schwab & Co. announced June 14 a broad reduction and simplification of pricing for its retail... etc. |
Registered Rep.
September 15, 2008
Kristen French |
Merrill Lynch Sells Itself To Bank of America: Update 3 The biggest question, now that BofA has agreed to buy Merrill Lynch, is what Bank of America will do to hold onto Merrill Lynch's dearest asset -- its approximately 17,000 financial advisors. |
Registered Rep.
May 2, 2006
Kevin Burke |
Merrill's Japanese Venture Opens Its Doors...Again Merrill Lynch teamed with Japan's Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, armed with 150 financial advisors, in attempt to change the island nation's reputation as a society of savers -- a people who prefer to keep cash stowed away in low-interest bearing savings accounts. |
Financial Planning
September 1, 2009
Donna Mitchell |
Roame on RIAs Conversations about change in the registered investment advisory space are constant these days, thanks to volatile markets, new products and demographic shifts. What sort of future will these changes create for the industry? |
