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Investment Advisor
August 2009
James J. Green |
Free It's the concept and reality of joining a true partnership that has led some of the biggest advisors at the biggest Wall Street firms to join HighTower Advisors.   |
Registered Rep.
January 3, 2012
Jerry Gleeson |
Raiders of the Wirehouse Ark The emergence of HighTower as a major player in the independent space also dovetails with the changes that have shaken the wirehouse industry since the 2008 financial crash. |
Registered Rep.
July 14, 2011
Jerry Gleeson |
Wirehouse Breakaways Eye HighTower Model VWG Wealth Management, with assets of $700 million, is the fifth wirehouse team this year to join HighTower Advisors, a Chicago-based hybrid RIA with national reach and $18 billion in AUM. |
Investment Advisor
August 2009
James J. Green |
Now and Then An interview with Tom Bradley, president of TD Ameritrade Institutional. |
Financial Planning
November 1, 2012
Donald Jay Korn |
High-Octane Expansion: Hightower Advisors Has a New Growth Plan HighTower has gotten a big boost by working with independents. Can it keep up the momentum? |
Registered Rep.
August 2, 2011
Jerry Gleeson |
Ex-Merrill Team: HighTower's Model Is Financial Advisory World's iPod HighTower Advisors' latest recruitment prize, a Merrill Lynch private banking team, says it sees big changes coming in the financial advisory world. |
Investment Advisor
September 2009
Melanie Waddell |
Not So Fast Cerulli Associates data suggests there may be fewer wirehouse brokers breaking away. |
Investment Advisor
March 2009
James J. Green |
Catching Up With... Catching Up With Tom Bradley |
Registered Rep.
February 23, 2010
Halah Touryalai |
Clients, The New Breakaways First, there was the breakaway broker phenomenon; now, it seems, we have a growing vogue of breakaway clients -- former wirehouse investors who ditch their old advisors for new ones at independent RIAs or broker/dealers. |
On Wall Street
March 1, 2013
Samantha Allen |
HighTower Aims to Lure Top Names with Home Office Visit HighTower Advisors has steadily worked to carve out a role as an emerging boutique firm through its high-profile advisor recruitment wins. Many prospective hires are attracted after their first home-office visit. |
Registered Rep.
February 7, 2012
David A. Geracioti |
Von Aldo: AMTD Institutional Promotes Bradley, Nally Just two days after the close of iTD Ameritrade Institutional's annual gabfest, Tom Bradley, the president of the institutional unit, was named head of TD Ameritrade Holdings' retail distribution unit. Succeeding him will be Tom Nally. |
Investment Advisor
August 2009
James J. Green |
Camera-Shy CEO As CEO of HighTower advisors, Elliot Weissbluth is the public face and voice of a firm with a unique business model that is backed by some of the smartest entrepreneurs in the advisor and financial services business. |
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 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.
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. |
Investment Advisor
July 2009
Melanie Waddell |
Regulatory Reform Angst It's clear that advisors are worried about the impact of regulatory reform measures. |
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. |
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.
July 22, 2013
Mindy Diamond |
The Long Road Home Wirehouse firms are recruiting more independent advisors to their ranks than ever before. |
Financial Planning
April 1, 2010
Donna Mitchell |
Going for Growth As RIAs gear up to grow their practices this year, they are doing more than scooping up unhappy wirehouse clients. They have identified three major strategies: increase spending on marketing, more technology, and improve client service. |
Investment Advisor
March 2006
James J. Green |
Editor's Note: The Limits of Independence Why the independent advisory business is such a wonderful one to be in, and yet such a frustrating one, too. |
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. |
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. |
Financial Advisor
February 2011
Evan Simonoff |
A Different Playing Field Regulatory reform is at the top of RIAs' minds going into 2011. |
Investment Advisor
March 2009
James J. Green |
News: A Sense of Resolve? Among RIAs and broker/dealers, the need to move ahead trumps market uncertainty. |
Financial Advisor
August 2010
Raymond Fazzi |
Looking To Streamline Now that they've experienced the harsh consequences of poor business management, fee-based advisors are looking to their custodians and broker-dealers for all the help they can get. |
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
July 2007
Green & Keane |
TD Ameritrade to Acquire Fiserv's Advisor Unit Under the complicated deal that will break up Fiserv ISS, TD Ameritrade will pay $225 million in cash for the operation. |
Registered Rep.
February 26, 2010
Christina Mucciolo |
Some Predict Broker Protocol Overhaul Some lawyers and executives anticipate an overhaul to the broker protocol agreement, which has gotten unruly with the growing number of signatory firms, the rising number of exceptions attached to the agreement and the high rate of advisors switching firms these days. |
Investment Advisor
March 2008
Kathleen M. McBride |
A Fortified TD Ameritrade There's lots of support for the fiduciary advisor-client relationship at the newly strengthened TD Ameritrade. |
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? |
Registered Rep.
April 17, 2012
Jerry Gleeson |
TD Ameritrade Recruitment of Breakaways Up 10% The number of breakaway brokers joining TD Ameritrade in its fiscal second quarter continued at the double-digit pace set in 2011. |
Registered Rep.
October 5, 2009
Kristen French |
Citi Bank Brokerage Converts To All Fees Citigroup announced that it would convert its small North American bank brokerage business completely to a fee-on-assets-based fiduciary advice system, and would stop collecting commissions on stock and fund sales. |
Investment Advisor
May 2006
Murphy & Green |
Breaking Away As the number of breakaway brokers continues to rise, broker/dealers and custodians have implemented programs designed to make the broker's transition to independence as seamless as possible. |
Investment Advisor
August 2008
Elizabeth D. Festa |
Springtime for Brokers Custodians and independent B/Ds roll out the carpet. |
Registered Rep.
February 3, 2011
Jerry Gleeson |
RIAs on the Recruiting Warpath: LPL's Morristown Financial Recruits 70 in 2010 Investors will refer their family and friends to their advisor if they're satisfied with the service. For financial practices that seek to recruit advisors, the game plays by much the same rules. |
Registered Rep.
October 30, 2014
Diana Britton |
The Rise of the Mini-Aggregator The rise of the "mini-aggregator" is an accelerating trend: Mature, established advisory firms who have built out their own infrastructure are realizing that they can rent out their back offices and operations. |
Registered Rep.
November 26, 2012
Mindy Diamond |
Advisors Sober Up For 2013 While the trend toward independence slowed a bit from previous years, 2012 was the year the independent channel legitimized its place next to the more traditional players. |
Investment Advisor
November 18, 2010
Bob Clark |
After the Flood How will independent advisors deal with the rising tide of breakaway brokers? |
Registered Rep.
October 28, 2015 |
TD Ameritrade Institutional: Helping a Diverse Industry Find a Common Voice TD Ameritrade Institutional has made it their mission to press for the kind of recognition and collective influence afforded other professional industries. |
Registered Rep.
June 28, 2013
Diana Britton |
60 seconds with Scott Collins We asked the Director of Advisor Transitions for TD Ameritrade Institutional what can we expect to change in advisor recruiting going forward? |
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. |
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. |
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. |
Investment Advisor
March 1, 2011
James J. Green |
Time to Move? 2011 will be a year when breakaway brokers and disaffected indie BD reps finally pull the trigger. |
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.
June 1, 2008
Mindy Diamond |
Flexing Your Trigger Finger If there is any lesson for advisors in the recent Bear Stearns implosion, it might be this: In times of market crisis it can't hurt to have an exit strategy planned. Many clients are now asking advisors what their exit strategy is. |
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.
February 1, 2005 |
By the Numbers Top 10 Broker/Dealers, by Advisor Headcount: Merrill Lynch... Wachovia... Smith Barney... Morgan Stanley... etc. |
Financial Advisor
March 2004
Evan Simonoff |
Editor's Note Virtually none of the several dozen advisors I spoke with was dissatisfied with the state of their business. At least if they were, they weren't saying so. |
