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Investment Advisor June 2008 Philip Palaveev	The New Model: The Fee-Only Broker/Dealer Independent broker/dealers must tackle head-on the causes of their frustration if they wish to survive.
Registered Rep. April 27, 2011 Diana Britton	Poll: Do Recruiters Promise Too Much? A former Raymond James advisor recently filed suit against the broker/dealer claiming an internal recruiter misrepresented the support, technology and compensation the firm could deliver.
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Financial Advisor August 2005 Tracey Longo	Independents Believe Bigger Is Better--And Cheaper Faced with higher costs, broker-dealers are targeting larger advisors.
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Registered Rep. April 16, 2014 Mindy Diamond	Outgrowing the IBD For advisors who are managing more than $500 million in client assets and are looking to build an enterprise, the independent broker/dealer model may have become too limiting for them.
Investment Advisor March 2009 James J. Green	Editor's Note: For Your Consideration RIAs and broker/dealers are more alike than they are different, and it's always better to merge from strength than weakness.
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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
Registered Rep. February 7, 2012 Kristen French	More Advisors Wearing Investment Management Hat Financial advisors at broker/dealers are increasingly taking the reins on their clients' fee-based accounts, according to a report out from Cerulli Associates today.
Registered Rep. June 27, 2011 Diana Britton	The Good, the Bad and the Ugly It seems like every week, another independent broker/dealer goes under or up for sale because of a bad private placement or other problematic alternative investments. All that turmoil has left a pool of advisors out in the cold, looking for new firms to call home.
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Registered Rep. March 31, 2015 Megan Leonhardt	The Increasingly Happy Broker Generally speaking, the smaller the firm, the happier the broker, according to our fifth Independent Broker/Dealer Report Card survey.
Registered Rep. August 25, 2011 Diana Britton	Portfolio Models Could See Headwinds Ahead, Especially Among RIAs Despite the fact that broker/dealers expect increased flows into their portfolio models over the next year, advisors' usage of these models has declined in the last 12 months, especially among RIAs.
Investment Advisor September 2008 Philip Palaveev	B/D or RIA? How to Decide for Yourself To help make the decision between the registered independent advisor and broker/dealer approach, first ask yourself where you belong.
Investment Advisor June 2009 Robert F. Keane	Directional Advisor Bob Whalen moved to Brewer Financial Services because of the depth of product and open architecture. He expects a lot of other reps to follow suit.
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Registered Rep. August 29, 2014 Diana Britton	One Strike, You're Out When it comes to the world of independent broker/dealers, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority is cracking down. Its stated 2014 priority is to focus its regulatory firepower on "high-risk" brokers.
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Registered Rep. October 1, 2004 Will Leitch	The Rep's Ugly Friend As the industry continues its inexorable march toward "wealth management," advisors have had to add new tools to their workbenches. Among all of them, reps seem to have the most trouble getting comfortable with life insurance.
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Registered Rep. February 7, 2012 Diana Britton	Are Regulations Killing the Hybrid Financial Advisor? Some advisors say new compliance and regulatory burdens under Dodd-Frank are making the hybrid model untenable.
Registered Rep. November 1, 2004 Will Leitch	The Advisor as Traffic Cop As high-net-worth investors spread their assets around more liberally, they are finding themselves in need of a traffic cop -- a central advisor who can sit in the middle of all the financial activity and make sense of it all.
Investment Advisor June 2008 Jonathan Henschen	Transfer Time For advisors pondering a move from a wirehouse to an independent broker/dealer with visions of large, forgivable transition loans dancing in their heads, it's time for a reality check.
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Investment Advisor March 2008 James J. Green	Coming Out Party Only fours years after its inception, the Financial Services Institute has achieved a high level of success as the primary advocacy group for independent broker/dealers. The recent FSI gathering was the broker/dealer group's biggest ever.
Registered Rep. August 23, 2009 Halah Touryalai	AIG Advisor Group NOT For Sale, New CEO Says After almost a year of looking for the right buyer, AIG's broker/dealer reps were told that they would not be sold.
Registered Rep. November 22, 2010 Charles Paikert	Fewer Small Accounts Mean More Production For Advisors: Study What's more, firms that more aggressively reduced small household concentrations among their advisors added approximately $45,000 per advisor in production.