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Registered Rep. January 1, 2007 Halah Touryalai	Riding High It was a fine year for brokerage firms -- especially their stocks. No one came up bigger than Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley in terms of percentage gains.
Registered Rep. March 3, 2006 Halah Tourylai	Third Wirehouse Coughs Up Millions In Overtime Cases Yesterday, Morgan Stanley became the third wirehouse, after Merrill Lynch and UBS, to settle class action suits with California brokers over overtime pay in the past seven months -- the second in three weeks.
Registered Rep. May 1, 2005 Will Leitch	So They've Got That Going for Them...Which Is Nice For all the problems it's been having in the last several months, Morgan Stanley can hang its hat on this good news: It is now the largest securities firm in the country.
Registered Rep. February 11, 2008 John Churchill	Retail Financial Advisors' Refrain: Let's Kill The Traders Brokers are bitter these days -- and for good reason. Much of their vitriol is aimed at the traders.
Managed Care January 2006 Catherine M. Murphy-Barron	Can We Design a Fair Benefit For Bariatric Surgery? Insurers need a coverage strategy that focuses on reducing post-surgical complications and avoiding adverse selection.
The Motley Fool February 11, 2009 Dayana Yochim	Don't Let a Disability Turn Into a Financial Disaster A short-term disability that turns into a long-term one can seriously sideline your finances. Supplemental coverage can save your savings from a big hit.
Registered Rep. June 26, 2008 John Churchill	Tough Morning For Brokerage Sector Stomachs are surely turning at the wirehouse brokerage firms this morning.
Financial Advisor March 2012	UBS Reeling In Merrill Advisors The big four wirehouse firms are always trying to poach top talent from their rivals, but UBS Wealth Management seems to be doing a particularly job good job of late when it comes to snagging advisor teams from Bank of America/Merrill Lynch.
Registered Rep. June 1, 2005 Kristen French	Star Wars Recruiting competition between the top brokerage firms is fiercer than ever, and Morgan Stanley is currently wielding one of the most powerful deals on Wall Street.
The Motley Fool June 30, 2008 Alex Dumortier	Merrill Apes Goldman ... Again Merrill Lynch will create a senior executive role responsible for all European businesses in a move that mimics Goldman Sachs' hierarchy.
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Registered Rep. October 1, 2005 Christopher O'Leary	It's in the Bank Wirehouse veterans who have switched to bank brokerages say Wall Street's perception of bank brokerages is stuck in the past, and that the best bank brokerages have become much more competitive in terms of production, assets and compensation.
Registered Rep. September 17, 2008 Geracioti & Touryalai	Morgan And Wachovia? The need for the kind of capital offered by customer deposits apparently is driving securities firms into the arms of banks.
Registered Rep. March 1, 2005 Mindy Diamond	Don't Be Dazzled by Prestige Names But just as Harvard is not the best place for every high school valedictorian, private client groups at Goldman Sachs or JP Morgan are not always the best places for an advisor focused on ultra-high-net-worth clients.
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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.
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Registered Rep. November 4, 2011 Kristen French	Indie Exodus: Overhyped? In 2009, in the wake of arguably one of the biggest financial crises this country has seen since the Great Depression, over 3,000 financial advisors left Merrill Lynch, UBS, Morgan Stanley and Wells Fargo to start life over at an independent broker/dealer or RIA firm.
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Registered Rep. January 24, 2007 John Churchill	Another Good Year for the Brokerage Industry Fourth-quarter earnings reports are just now rolling in, and they're even better than expected. And it's not just Wall Street's investment-banking divisions that are reeling it in.
Registered Rep. September 10, 2008	Bank of America to Buy Its ARs Back The nation's second-largest bank by assets settled an investigation by Massachusetts regulators, agreeing to buy back $4.5 billion worth of the securities.
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Registered Rep. December 1, 2005 Kristen French	Morgan Brokers Still Heading for Exits There has been a parade of top brokers who have left Morgan Stanley in recent months. The losses, which began under embattled former CEO Phil Purcell, have not abated since his replacement, John Mack, arrived in June.
Financial Planning November 1, 2011 Donald Jay Korn	Barely Covered When the going gets tough, the tough cut costs. Clients worried about their finances may think about dumping big expenses that may seem to be a luxury, such as disability insurance. In this case, they would likely be wrong.
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Registered Rep. July 14, 2008 Halah Touryalai	Morgan Stanley Offers $50 million In Overtime Settlement The settlement covers all financial advisors, trainees, producing branch managers, assistant branch managers and sales managers who live outside of California and were employed with the New York-based firm between Sept. 1, 2002, and April 21, 2008.
On Wall Street January 1, 2009 Frances A. McMorris	The 2009 Challenge: Embracing Change Now that the major earthquakes seem to be over, advisors at the brokerage firms once known as wirehouses increasingly find themselves asking the question: Should I stay or should I go?
Registered Rep. March 15, 2012 Kristen French	Did the $5 Debit Card Fee Prompt the Merrill Exodus? Bank of America Merrill Lynch has been bleeding top brokers in the past six months, just as many industry observers predicted.
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Registered Rep. March 30, 2006 Kristen French	Gorman Unrestrained Morgan Stanley retail chief James Gorman was freed by a New York State judge of the temporary restraining order that prevented him from raiding Merrill Lynch's brokerage ranks.
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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.
Registered Rep. November 18, 2005 Kristen French	Smith Barney Cuts Pay for Smaller Brokers The new pay scale was announced to brokers internally in October and will take effect in January.
Registered Rep. August 17, 2005 Kristen French	Gorman to the Rescue? Now that James Gorman has been selected as the future head of Morgan Stanley's retail brokerage, what will he do to turn it around, and can he pull it off?
Registered Rep. August 1, 2005 John Churchill	Rich Brands, Poor Brands Wealthy clients are very familiar with wirehouse brand names -- a sign that the industry's heavy marketing is paying off. But when it comes to rating the actual services that firms deliver, wealthy clients favor boutique trust firms and private banks.