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Financial Planning
June 1, 2013
Matt Ackermann |
United Capital's Joe Duran: Imitating Starbucks The CEO of United Capital plans a nationwide network of planners with a consistent look and feel.   |
Registered Rep.
January 13, 2011
Jerry Gleeson |
United Capital Buys Three RIAs, Adds $2.2B in AUM The three deals bring United Capital's total AUM to more than $13 billion, with 29 offices across the country. |
Investment Advisor
July 2008
James J. Green |
United We Grow United capital's Joe Duran on the state of advisory firms, and his strategy for acquiring financial advisory firms nationwide. |
Registered Rep.
July 8, 2015
Jerry Gleeson |
No Slowing RIA Growth In the financial advisory industry there are potential regulatory burdens, fickle investors, and crafty competitors -- but nothing has changed the relentless march of the registered investment advisor space since the 2008 crash. |
Registered Rep.
December 2, 2008
Halah Touryalai |
RIA Consolidators Going After Wirehouse Reps RIA holding companies are opening their arms to welcome wirehouse advisors, but only the cream of the crop: those who have significant assets under management and heavily fee-based books. |
Registered Rep.
December 21, 2012
Megan Leonhardt |
Looking Back, 2012 A Mixed Bag For Wirehouses Assets mostly were up, but advisors are on the move. |
Financial Planning
June 1, 2012
Donna Mitchell |
Aiming Lower Mass-market investors, with their relatively tiny net worth but big growth potential, are attracting increased attention from the financial planning industry. Two major companies have announced forays into this market sector. |
Registered Rep.
October 24, 2007
Halah Touryalai |
The New New RIA Model: Sharing Back Offices The barriers to going independent are shrinking. Don't believe it? Check out Mraz, Amerine & Hirschler & Associates, a firm launched by three wirehouse advisors who left Morgan Stanley earlier this month with $400 million in client assets. |
Investment Advisor
September 2009
Melanie Waddell |
Not So Fast Cerulli Associates data suggests there may be fewer wirehouse brokers breaking away. |
Registered Rep.
July 22, 2013
Mindy Diamond |
The Long Road Home Wirehouse firms are recruiting more independent advisors to their ranks than ever before. |
Registered Rep.
September 15, 2010
Jerry Gleeson |
United Capital Acquires Dunn Hogerty, More Mergers Ahead United Capital isn't the only one looking to tie the knot. The broader M&A market is picking up, according to Schwab Advisor Services. |
Financial Planning
August 1, 2012
Bob Veres |
Embracing the Crazy Ideas Take a closer look at the people who abandon well-established business models for the "insane" reason that they want to give their clients something better. |
U.S. Banker
August 2002
Karen Krebsbach |
Banking on SMA Funds From investment management to technology to back-office services, outsourcers are elbowing their way into the separately managed account (SMA) business. Small banks are paying attention -- and hoping to reap the rewards. |
Registered Rep.
March 22, 2013
Mindy Diamond |
Of Myths and Moving: Part IV When it comes to preconceived notions about the wirehouse world and independence, many advisors have it all wrong. Here are the five most common myths advisors have today. |
Registered Rep.
April 2, 2010
Jerry Gleeson |
Advisor Work Station Giants Roll Out Spring Upgrades Forget high-tech. What financial advisors are looking for in computer work stations these days is smooth tech, the ability to simplify the complex and sometimes mind-numbing tasks that are part of their daily lives. |
Financial Advisor
February 2008
Jeff Schlegal |
Strategic Moves Mergers and acquisitions activity in the financial advisory industry has accelerated during the past three years, and United Capital Financial Advisers has done its share of deal making. A profile of the Newport Beach, California-based firm. |
Investment Advisor
July 2010
Lewis Schiff |
Succession Planning: Buying and Selling Wealth Management Practices 2010 could be the biggest year ever for mergers and acquisitions in the financial advisory industry, but the players and strategies are different than they were prior to the market turndown. |
Financial Advisor
July 2006
Dorothy Hinchcliff |
Climbing A Stairway To Heaven As boomers age and spend their savings, financial advisors will need to adapt their practices. |
Investment Advisor
October 2009
James J. Green |
More on Migration Cerulli Associates estimates that $800 billion will be moving as advisors change firms. |
Registered Rep.
April 1, 2008
David A. Geracioti |
Joseph Duran A conversation with Joseph Duran, about his firm, United Capital, a national wealth-management firm that purchases regional registered investment advisor firms. |
Registered Rep.
March 28, 2012
Charles Paikert |
Branch Managers Are Key For Aggregator Growth There is growing demand for their talents in one corner of the wealth management universe: newly formed aggregators who are busy buying up firms and opening offices across the country. |
Financial Advisor
March 2012 |
Wirehouses Still King Of The Hill Despite headlines about breakaway brokers and the ascendency of the independent, fee-based advisory model, the Big Four wirehouses are still holding their own. |
Financial Advisor
June 2009
Sherri Scordo |
Advisor Emporium Genworth Financial Wealth Management is enhancing its investment management platform to help advisors through the current challenging market |
Investment Advisor
January 1, 2011
Marlene Y. Satter |
Sitting Tight 2010 will be remembered by broker/dealer recruiters as 'The Year of Going Nowhere.' |
Registered Rep.
July 5, 2011
Jerry Gleeson |
Schwab Finds RIAs Posted Record 2010 Revenue, AUM Average profits surged 45 percent last year among registered investment advisors surveyed, but don't look for a repeat of this year. |
Investment Advisor
August 2005
Mark Tibergien |
Formulas for Success: Independence Day There is a growing trend toward registered reps moving out of the wirehouse environment -- a trend invisible to most, but obvious to the country's leading custodians: they are actively wooing breakaway brokers. |
Investment Advisor
December 2007
Bob Clark |
Future Talk Using third-party portfolio managers just might offer a better business model for independents advisors. Here are a few things to consider when looking at third-party portfolio managers. |
Registered Rep.
October 1, 2005
Mindy Diamond |
What Size Pond? It is important for advisors to find a firm that is a good fit for their particular goals. In many cases, small firms work well. For advisors looking to expand their books aggressively, larger firms are often -- but not always -- a good option. |
Registered Rep.
September 1, 2005
Grove & Prince |
Theory to Practice For many advisors, the evolution to wealth manager remains a matter of theory, not practice. Sure, they're calling themselves wealth managers, but they're still behaving like financial advisors. |
Investment Advisor
August 2008
Elizabeth D. Festa |
Springtime for Brokers Custodians and independent B/Ds roll out the carpet. |
Registered Rep.
September 24, 2013
Mindy Diamond |
Peeking Over the Fence Is the grass really greener -- and growing faster -- on the other side? Many advisors don't know how limited they are in their growth until they start exploring other options. |
Financial Advisor
November 2008 |
Frontline News News for the Financial Industry: Tumult Could Expand Ranks Of RIAs... M&A Activity Remains Healthy... Independent B-Ds: Don't Tread On Us... Who Has The Most Satisfied Advisors?... The Business Of Serving Business Owners... etc. |
Investment Advisor
November 18, 2010
Bob Clark |
After the Flood How will independent advisors deal with the rising tide of breakaway brokers? |
Registered Rep.
May 26, 2010
Jerry Gleeson |
Bonuses No Balm For Some Breakaway-Minded Brokers Paying retention bonuses to top brokers to keep them from jumping ship is a pricey strategy that only works some of the time, a report released today by Aite Group shows. |
Financial Advisor
July 2011
Eric Rasmussen |
Bouncing Back Financial Advisor's 2011 RIA survey shows assets and client numbers continuing to bounce back, but growth could be sluggish. |
Registered Rep.
October 1, 2012
Mindy Diamond |
Lost In Translation Different languages: How communication gaps can kill recruiting for advisory firms. |
Financial Planning
October 1, 2010
Bob Veres |
What's Next for Planners When we cast our gaze forward at the changes taking place in the financial planning profession, a lot of new variables creep into the formula: the rapid evolution of technology, demographic and societal changes, plus wild cards like the recent Great Recession and financial reform legislation. |
Financial Advisor
December 2007 |
Frontline News Kochis Fitz To Merge With Quintile... Practicing The Best Practices... United Capital Buys Four Advisory Firms... Herd Mentality Linked With Keeping Up With The Joneses... etc. |
Financial Advisor
April 2007
William Glasgall |
Why Marketing Works Over the years, many advisors, being analytical people at heart, have relegated marketing to a minor role behind crunching numbers for clients' financial plans and investment portfolios. Now, that attitude seems to be undergoing a long-needed change. |
Investment Advisor
December 2005
Melanie Waddell |
Breaking Away Brokers are finding it easier than ever to go independent, aided by custodians and other independent advisors. |
On Wall Street
July 1, 2010
Lauren Barack |
Beating Back The Independents So a mere eighteen months after the sky fell, is it really possible that life at the wirehouses isn't so bad? |
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
March 2012 |
Frontline News Financial Advisor news: Building A Firm In Tough Economic Times... Keeping Up In An Evolving Space... Go South, Young Man... Wirehouses Still King Of The Hill... |
Registered Rep.
May 31, 2013
Megan Leonhardt |
Sizing Up the Street In the latest earnings cycle, here's how the wirehouses stacked up. |
Registered Rep.
November 21, 2012
Jerry Gleeson |
Why Wirehouse FAs Pass on the RIA Path Independence is appealing to a growing number of wirehouse advisors, but the RIA route clearly has some challenges for most of them. |
Financial Advisor
December 2007
Sydney LeBlanc |
More Options, More Business Independent advisors recently got the opportunity of a lifetime -- the marriage made between fee-based advisory accounts and fiduciary accountability finally made headlines in the SEC repeal of Rule 202. |
On Wall Street
June 1, 2009
Helen Kearney |
Big Name Boutiques Flex Their Muscles For those wirehouse advisors who want something new, but don't quite have the nerve to go independent, these elite boutiques look mighty attractive. |
Registered Rep.
December 1, 2006
Kristen French |
60 Seconds with Deborah Doyle McWhinney A short interview about the rivalry between the registered investment advisor (RIA) firms that Schwab caters to and Wall Street wirehouses. |
On Wall Street
August 1, 2010
Aarti N. Maharaj |
The Wirehouse Way While the lure of independence has traditionally been viewed as the ultimate siren song for many advisors, many in the industry are finding good reasons to stay with the big companies. And it's not all about the money. |
Investment Advisor
March 2009
James J. Green |
Catching Up With... Catching Up With Tom Bradley |
