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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.
Registered Rep. March 1, 2008	A Matter Of Trust What are the biggest hurdles that clearing and custody firms will face in the coming year?... Why did LPL go self-clearing, and will other b/ds follow?...
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. 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.
Registered Rep. March 1, 2006 Kristen French	The Best of Both Worlds Advisors say the broker/dealer-RIA hybrid model gives them freedom to choose what products, services and fees are best for their clients.
Registered Rep. October 15, 2010 Jerry Gleeson	Fewer, But Bigger Breakaway Brokers Joining RIAs With markets stabilizing and bank-brokerage merger integrations progressing, fewer brokers are fleeing the big Wall Street wirehouse firms for the RIAs and independent b/ds in 2010.
Registered Rep. October 15, 2009 Christina Mucciolo	Schwab Q3 Earning Down, But the Race For RIA Assets Is Hot Charles Schwab reported a 34 percent drop in its third quarter earnings, the firm's third consecutive quarter of slowing earnings this year.
Registered Rep. January 25, 2010 Halah Touryalai	LPL's New RIA Platform Rakes in Assets Since launching the platform in October 2008 through the end of 2009, the firm gathered $7.3 billion in assets.
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 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 Planning February 1, 2006 Donald Jay Korn	Custody Battle Although three custodians now get most of the RIA business, increased competition may lead to more choices -- and more services -- for financial planners.
Financial Advisor January 2004 Dorothy Hinchcliff	Custodians Are Knocking More custody players have been clamoring for the business of registered investment advisors, and that trend will continue this year, say two well-known research firms for financial institutions and investment managers.
Registered Rep. April 1, 2007 John Churchill	Can Schwab's RIA Empire be Toppled? Last year the online-broker-turned-advice-provider extended an already massive lead over rivals Fidelity and TD Ameritrade in RIA asset gathering. Is there no challenger to Schwab's throne?
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.
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 Planning November 1, 2007 Elizabeth O'Brien	A Visionary Move An interview with Mark Tibergien, a well-known and respected consultant at Moss Adams, as he takes the helm at Pershing Advisor Solutions.
Investment Advisor December 2005 Andrew Gluck	The Gluck Report, Part I: The Big Three's Tech Plans for 2006 New tech initiatives from the leading custodians have lots of features aimed at attracting and winning over RIAs without making them feel like they're losing their independence. We talk to the tech heads at Schwab, Fidelity, and TD Waterhouse.
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.
Registered Rep. March 1, 2008	Partners In Dime As competition for clients and talent in the financial advisory business intensifies, custody and clearing firms are doing everything they can to help b/ds and RIAs stay on top of their game and navigate the path to growth.
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 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. September 1, 2010 Halah Touryalai	Outgrowing the SERIES 7 There is a coveted cohort of dually registered advisors who are dropping their Series 7 licenses and leaving their b/ds behind.
Financial Advisor September 2004 Dorothy Hinchcliff	Here Come The Big Boys Fidelity and Pershing are competing for advisors' trust business.
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 Advisor June 2007 Joel Bruckenstein	Custodians Lend A Hand The large custodial firms are ramping up their technology assistance for advisors.
Registered Rep. July 5, 2012 Jerry Gleeson	A League of their Own While the Big Four custodians still dominate the market, some smaller firms are making their presence felt.
Financial Advisor May 2007 Eric Rasmussen	What's New At The Custodian Custodians are continuing to offer new services for fee-only planners in their efforts to woo RIAs.
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 Advisor July 2007 Tracey Longo	The Big Picture Clearing firms stake their future on helping financial advisors' businesses grow.
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.
Financial Advisor January 2008 Bruce W. Fraser	Growing Up Over the next five years, the typical RIA will undergo rapid transformation, and the average RIA firm is expected to at least triple in size. To accommodate such growth, hiring decisions will become critical, stretching far beyond the traditional tendency of firms to simply add more advisors.
Financial Planning September 1, 2011 Donna Mitchell	Happy Mediums Online brokerage giants are taking market share from almost every segment of the financial advisory business - except for RIAs.
Registered Rep. March 1, 2008	Independent Together The "RIA-in-a-box" model will attract plenty of wirehouse reps who may have previously balked at the idea of going completely independent, fearing they were unprepared to run their own businesses.
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.
Investment Advisor July 2010 James J. Green	Your Next Custodian Mike Kavanagh and his team at RBC Advisor Services enter the custody space with ambitious plans to attract big advisory firms.
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.
Investment Advisor January 2009 James J. Green	Schwab Reorganizes; Fidelity Hires; Pershing Provides The three major custodians of RIA assets announce big executive changes and a new practice management program.
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
Registered Rep. March 1, 2006 Allen Plummer	The Tech Decision Matrix Independent contractors or registered investment advisor reps have tough decisions in choosing their back-office and tech solutions. Here's what they need to consider.
Financial Advisor September 2005 Raymond Fazzi	A Question Of Trust Custodians square off in a newly competitive trust services market.
Registered Rep. February 16, 2010 Mindy Diamond	Recruiting Bonuses Are Still Strong TD Ameritrade, Schwab, Fidelity and Pershing are all reporting that their pipelines of interested advisors is more robust than ever in their collective histories.
Registered Rep. March 8, 2007 Halah Touryalai	LPL's Got `Bank.' What's Next? An IPO? LPL's acquisition last week of three Pacific Life Insurance Company b/ds was just one more step in its quest for a successful sale of the company -- or an initial public offering.
Registered Rep. April 6, 2010 Kristen French	Custodians In Race To Roll Out M&A Tools TD Ameritrade Institutional is rolling out a new online business valuation tool.
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.
Financial Advisor December 2007 Andy Gluck	What The Tech Deals Mean To You Nearly a decade since the first Internet applications for advisors appeared, we are seeing their adoption and acceptance in all corners of the industry. What does it mean now?
Financial Advisor December 2011 Eric Rasmussen	Free-Range Advisors Custodians to independent advisors are in an arms race to give bigger, better software and practice management packages.
Registered Rep. October 1, 2005 John Kador	Schwab Does It Again Charles Schwab, the pioneering discount broker who was slammed by the tech wreck and suffered through protracted management struggles in the past two years, is beating the wirehouses at their own game.
Financial Planning January 1, 2013 Donald Jay Korn	Top Custodians: Battling for Custody Custodians try different strategies for growth as advisors break away to join RIA firms.
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 March 2010 Robert F. Keane	Changes at the Top for RIA Units at Fidelity and Schwab At a time when growth in the RIA channel has been robust to say the least, the two largest custodians have announced executive changes and restructuring of their units serving RIAs.