| Similar Articles |
|---|
 |
Financial Planning
November 1, 2010
Paul Menchaca |
Turning the Page The extent to which the AIG brand is tainted remains unknown. Is it permanently damaged, or will Americans eventually forgive, if not forget? Are advisors still wary of the AIG affiliation?   |
Financial Advisor
January 2011
Bruce W. Fraser |
Crafting A Comeback With new leadership at its parent AIG, Advisor Group's trio of broker-dealers venture forth on the road to recovery. |
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.
March 29, 2011
Diana Britton |
President of FSC Resigns Suddenly Mark Schlafly, president and CEO of FSC Securities, has suddenly resigned from his position at the AIG Advisor Group broker-dealer because of a family medical emergency. |
Registered Rep.
April 1, 2009
Halah Touryalai |
No Buyers--Still--For AIG-owned B/Ds AIG announced its plan to sell its independent broker/dealers back around October 2008. Six months later, nothing has changed except that reps we spoke to are even more frustrated. Some say they are ready to bolt. |
Financial Advisor
June 2007
Sherri Scordo |
Indepedent Broker-Dealers/Financial Advisor's 2007 Snapshot of Leading Firms Advantage Capital Corporation... AIG Financial Advisors... American General Securities, Inc... etc. |
Financial Planning
October 1, 2008
Marion Asnes |
AIG Speaks Out An exclusive interview with the team at the top of AIG Advisor Group. |
Financial Planning
May 1, 2010
Paul Menchaca |
Royal's Big Deal When Rehmann Financial announced in March that it was moving roughly $2.5 billion in client assets to Royal Alliance, it marked more than just a significant business pickup for the New York City-based broker-dealer. |
Financial Advisor
June 2007
Sherri Scordo |
Financial Advisor's 2007 Broker-Dealer Guide Top independent broker-dealers ranked by gross revenue: LPL... AIG Advisors Group... ING Advisors Network... etc. |
Registered Rep.
October 28, 2008
Halah Touryalai |
AIG B/Ds Looking for a New Home. Any Takers? Now that its parent has announced plans to sell off portions of itself, the AIG Advisor Group is looking for a new home. |
Registered Rep.
July 29, 2009
Halah Touryalai |
AIG Advisor Group Sale Is Close The AIG Advisor Group may finally have found a buyer after nine months of operating in limbo. |
Registered Rep.
November 1, 2007
Erik Kolb |
Recruits In The Driver's Seat Recruiting in the independent broker/dealer business has reached a fever pitch. Firms have responded with recruiting incentives such as deferred compensation, transition financing, practice-management help, and sign-on bonuses. |
Registered Rep.
September 17, 2008 |
AIG Saved; Biz As Usual For Its B/Ds The government bailed out AIG from near failure with a two-year loan of $85 million in exchange for a nearly 80-percent stake in the company. |
Investment Advisor
April 1, 2011
John Sullivan |
Catching Up With ... Jeff Auld Talk about trial by fire; Jeff Auld left Berthel Fisher Financial Services to head what was then AIG Financial Advisors in July 2008. He is now looking to the future of the rebranded and revitalized SagePoint Financial. |
Investment Advisor
October 2008
James J. Green |
When Big Is Better Larry Roth, CEO of the AIG Advisor Group, believes that in these troubled times, being big is quite an advantage. |
Financial Advisor
January 2006
Tracey Longo |
Working Smarter, Not Harder As more independent broker-dealers set themselves up as strategic outsourcing partners, they are finding bigger and better firms driven to their door by stagnant or shrinking profit margins and the accelerating compliance melee. |
Registered Rep.
March 6, 2012
Diana Britton |
Advisor Group Looking to Buy Mid-Sized B/Ds, Large OSJs AIG Advisor Group is in talks with a few mid-sized broker/dealers and larger offices of supervisory jurisdiction, and hopes to make one or more acquisitions in the near future. |
Registered Rep.
September 15, 2008 |
AIG Stays Afloat -- For Now The firm has been allowed to lend itself $20 billion for daily operations by borrowing against its own assets. In the meantime, the Fed has hired Morgan Stanley to help it assess its options for keeping AIG afloat. |
Financial Advisor
June 2009
Jeff Schlegel |
Money In Motion The economic crisis has wreaked havoc on wirehouses, and more advisors are looking for new opportunities. |
Financial Planning
June 1, 2008
Donald Jay Korn |
All Systems Go Clients and income hold steady in the financial services industry. |
Financial Advisor
November 2008
Gail Liberman |
War Breaks Out For Wirehouse Brokers The economic crisis on Wall Street, among many other things, is causing wirehouse brokers to reconsider the value proposition offered by the giant financial service firms. |
Financial Advisor
August 2005
Tracey Longo |
Independents Believe Bigger Is Better--And Cheaper Faced with higher costs, broker-dealers are targeting larger advisors. |
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. |
Financial Advisor
August 2012
Karen DeMasters |
The Great Migration Though they aren't moving as fast as they were a few years ago, advisors are still in play for independent broker-dealers. |
Financial Planning
June 1, 2008
Stacy Shultz |
Lookin' Good, Broker Dealers As baby boomers approach retirement, some believe there could be no better time to be in the financial services industry. |
Investment Advisor
August 2008 |
Changes Mark Schlafly named president and CEO of FSC Securities and Advantage Capital Corp... Jeff Auld named president and CEO of AIG Financial Advisors... Ted Mathas is now the CEO of New York Life Insurance Company... Three new SEC commissioner nominees... |
Financial Advisor
April 2005
Tracey Longo |
Winning Over Wirehouse Brokers AIG's transition suites help brokers become independent. |
Financial Planning
June 1, 2009
Paul Menchaca |
Oh, the Drama The broker-dealers who spoke to Financial Planning in this year's annual survey are busy negotiating the downturn by improving their infrastructure, expanding through recruitment and eyeing an economic rebound. |
Financial Planning
June 1, 2013
Ann Marsh |
FP50: Big IBDs Hit a Speed Bump Is the boom over? After years of double-digit growth, independent broker-dealers hit a rough patch in 2012. We report from the front lines of the FP50. |
Investment Advisor
May 1, 2011
Janet Levaux |
Securities America Denies Charges of Departing Reps Anonymous sources insist advisors are leaving or planning to leave the firm |
Financial Planning
October 1, 2009
Marion Asnes |
AIG, Again How AIG plans to rebound after a year of disasters. |
Financial Planning
June 1, 2010
Paul Menchaca |
Tale of a Tough Year What the numbers show: a dramatic seven-month stock market rally was not enough to help most of the top 50 broker-dealers counter the aftershocks of the financial crisis. |
Investment Advisor
October 2007
Kara P. Stapleton |
News & Products, October 2007 FINRA fines AXA Advisors for "failing to adequately supervise its fee-based brokerage business"... AIG announces organizational changes... Commonwealth Financial Network provides advisors with Estate Planning Blueprint... etc. |
Financial Planning
October 2, 2007
Elizabeth O'Brien |
On the Job Mitch Waters has joined AXA Distributors in New York as national sales manager... The AIG Advisor Group in New York has tapped Larry Roth as the broker-dealer unit's chief executive officer... etc. |
Financial Planning
March 1, 2007
Elizabeth O'Brien |
Clearly, Competition LPL's clearing deal with AXA Advisors prompts questions about recruitment among independent broker-dealers. |
Financial Advisor
August 2006
Tracey Longo |
Late Summer Recruiting While the recruiting party will get tougher some day for broker-dealers who cater to independent advisors and reps, for now they are enjoying their competitive advantage: They give brokers and advisors who want to own their own business the chance to do that. |
Financial Advisor
May 2006
Tracey Longo |
What Have You Done For Me Lately? The race is on among independent broker-dealers to recruit more top fee-based advisors. |
Financial Planning
August 1, 2011
Donna Mitchell |
Ready to Commit Omaha, Neb.-based Securities America is one of Ameriprise's five broker-dealer subsidiaries. That Ameriprise, based in Minneapolis, announced its intention in March to sell the independent broker-dealer without a buyer lined up is also unusual. |
Registered Rep.
September 16, 2008 |
AIG Needs Cash; Who Will Buy Its B/Ds? The $20 billion loan AIG was allowed to borrow against itself yesterday didn't have much of an impact after S&P, Moody's and Fitch cuts its credit ratings. |
Financial Advisor
June 2008
Tracey Longo |
Swimming Upstream California investment advisor John Threlkeld has been working diligently to serve wealthier and wealthier investors, even purchasing two other advisors' practices and turning all but his top clients over to a junior planner. |
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
January 2005
Tracey Longo |
How Fee-Based Programs Led 2004 Brokerage Profits Fee-based profitability is not lost on brokerage executives, who are ramping up programs designed to attract more planners to a fee-based business model and away from traditional commissions. |
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.
June 7, 2011
Diana Britton |
Advisor Group in Talks to Acquire Smaller B/D Independent broker/dealer network Advisor Group is talking to a number of small and mid-sized broker/dealers that the company would consider purchasing. |
Financial Planning
November 1, 2010
Joni Youngwirth |
Calling All Advisors Over the past five years, advisors recruiting advisors has become an increasingly hot topic. Why? |
Financial Advisor
November 2009
Evan Simonoff |
The Client Paradox For advisors, it's one thing to sense an opportunity. But when you are going through as much emotional stress as most have, it requires a great deal of intestinal fortitude to go out and try to capitalize on it. |
Financial Advisor
November 2011
Jeff Schlegel |
Back In Gear After a slow period, recruiting is revving up again among broker-dealers. |
Financial Advisor
August 2007
Tracey Longo |
A World For Advisors Broker-dealers across the country are reporting record revenue increases -- a significant portion of these from fee-based business -- and say they're continuing to step up their game in order to recruit advisors with significant practices. |
Financial Planning
June 1, 2011
Donald Jay Korn |
FP 50: Revenue Rising The money stream is flowing again: After two years of stagnant or, worse, shrinking revenue, the 50 largest independent broker-dealers report their annual revenues rebounded last year - significantly in many cases. |
Financial Planning
June 1, 2010
Paul Menchaca |
Survivor Island Firms that endured the worst of the financial crisis and lived to tell about it. |
