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Investment Advisor March 2010 Robert F. Keane	Changes at the Top for RIA Units at Fidelity and Schwab At a time when growth in the RIA channel has been robust to say the least, the two largest custodians have announced executive changes and restructuring of their units serving RIAs.
Registered Rep. September 10, 2009 David A. Geracioti	Fido's RIA Unit Cuts Fees The average financial advisor has taken a big hit in production and therefore net income. But RIA custodians are turning that into something of a marketing tool.
Registered Rep. October 15, 2009 Christina Mucciolo	Schwab Q3 Earning Down, But the Race For RIA Assets Is Hot Charles Schwab reported a 34 percent drop in its third quarter earnings, the firm's third consecutive quarter of slowing earnings this year.
Investment Advisor January 2009 James J. Green	Schwab Reorganizes; Fidelity Hires; Pershing Provides The three major custodians of RIA assets announce big executive changes and a new practice management program.
Investment Advisor August 2009 James J. Green	Schwab Cuts Costs for Its Advisors Charles Schwab Advisor Services announced a series of moves that will have the net effect of reducing costs to the RIAs that custody with Schwab.
Registered Rep. July 23, 2010 Brad Zigler	An ETF Commission War Is Brewing There's something afoot in the ETF space that's going to challenge reps and advisors to create value-for-money propositions for their services.
Registered Rep. October 29, 2009 Kristen French	RJFS Raises RIA minimums, LPL Pulls Past RJ in RIA Assets Raymond James is raising minimums for new RIAs who want to custody assets on its RJFS-IAD platform from $30 million to $50 million.
Registered Rep. June 1, 2005 Kristen French	Fido Attacks! Long a distant second to Charles Schwab in the lucrative business of serving financial advisors, Fidelity is making an aggressive push to close that gap. And some advisors are taking notice.
Registered Rep. June 29, 2009 Halah Touryalai	Schwab Cuts Some Fees for 2009 In an effort to ease the financial pain of its registered investment advisors, Charles Schwab has announced a series of initiatives that will save them money.
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.
BusinessWeek June 7, 2004 Lee & Young	Is Schwab's Latest Come-On Enough? Brokerage firm Charles Schwab & Co. is slashing commissions in a bid to win over the high-net-worth clients it so badly needs.
Registered Rep. July 16, 2009 Halah Touryalai	Schwab Profits Down for Q2 But Keeps Adding Breakaway Brokers Charles Schwab reported that its second quarter profit fell 31 percent, thanks to low interest rates and soft capital markets, but in the meantime the company has added 74 breakaway advisors to its RIA platform.
Investment Advisor September 2005 Mark Tibergien	Formulas for Success: The Price of Everything... If you're not adding profit into what each financial advisory client costs, you're losing money. Advisors who use a combination of performance fees tied to assets and a retainer tied to more complex planning are able to consistently demonstrate their value.
Investment Advisor December 2005 Andrew Gluck	The Gluck Report, Part I: The Big Three's Tech Plans for 2006 New tech initiatives from the leading custodians have lots of features aimed at attracting and winning over RIAs without making them feel like they're losing their independence. We talk to the tech heads at Schwab, Fidelity, and TD Waterhouse.
Investment Advisor February 2010 James J. Green	Schwab Keeps Up the Price Pressure Cuts equity commissions to $8.95 per trade; rolls out more commission-free ETFs.
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.
Financial Advisor February 2004 Sydney LeBlanc	Stature, Service, Size, Simplicity Schwab, Fidelity and Waterhouse are building sophisticated SMA (separately managed account) platforms.
The Motley Fool February 3, 2010 Dan Caplinger	The Answer You've Been Waiting For Back in November, Charles Schwab announced that it would introduce exchange-traded funds of its own. Fidelity answers Schwab with an even better deal for investors.
Registered Rep. March 2, 2015 Diana Britton	Crowded Out Some level of competition between advisors and custodians has been around for years. Still, some advisors feel recent events make the distinction between business partner and market competitor less clear.
Financial Advisor January 2008 Tracey Longo	Breakaway Brokers Despite being in business a shorter amount of time than the average advisor, breakaways have more assets under management, higher total revenues and a significantly higher growth rate.
Registered Rep. October 25, 2010 Charles Paikert	Fidelity Targets RIAs with UHNW Clients In an effort to attract more financial advisors who have -- or would like to have -- ultra-high-net-worth clients, Fidelity Investments is offering them the same high-end services it offers to family offices.
The Motley Fool February 11, 2010 Dan Caplinger	Roundtable: Will Free ETFs Change Your Life? Several top experts in personal finance weigh in with their thoughts on how you can best take advantage of changes in ETF fees.
The Motley Fool February 3, 2010 Rick Aristotle Munarriz	Let's Discount the Discounters Stock trade commission rates are falling, but that's bad news for discount brokers' shareholders.
Registered Rep. May 8, 2013 Diana Britton	Moving on Up: Go Independent and Make More $ Advisors who switched firms saw a jump in their compensation, especially among those who went independent.
Financial Advisor January 2004 Dorothy Hinchcliff	Custodians Are Knocking More custody players have been clamoring for the business of registered investment advisors, and that trend will continue this year, say two well-known research firms for financial institutions and investment managers.
Investment Advisor July 2008 James J. Green	Further Integration at Fidelity Registered independent advisors and broker/dealer arms at Fidelity announce a joint program.
Investment Advisor March 2008 James J. Green	Fast Growing RIAs Tied to Breakaway Brokers A new study commissioned by Fidelity Investments of the fastest growing RIA firms found that firms that grew their assets under management by more than 100% over the past three years have a lot of common factors.
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Registered Rep. January 27, 2010 Jerry Gleeson	Two Key Execs Depart Fidelity Why all the turnover in top brass at Fidelity?
Registered Rep. November 25, 2008	Fido Poaches Schwab RIA Executive Fidelity Investments negotiates a contract with the former head of Schwab's advisor business.
Registered Rep. December 4, 2012 Jerry Gleeson	Don't Fear Your Fees RIAs are loathe to increase rates, believing it alienates clients. But industry insiders say advisors have more juice than they suspect. Here's how to get a raise.
Investment Advisor August 2008 Elizabeth D. Festa	Springtime for Brokers Custodians and independent B/Ds roll out the carpet.
Financial Planning February 1, 2006 Donald Jay Korn	Custody Battle Although three custodians now get most of the RIA business, increased competition may lead to more choices -- and more services -- for financial planners.
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?
Investment Advisor January 2010 Robert F. Keane	Catching Up With...Mike Durbin A short interview with the head of Fidelity Institutional Wealth Services.
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Financial Advisor November 2008 Bruce W. Fraser	Clearings Fairly Smooth Despite recent market turmoil -- spurred by the collapse of several storied financial institutions and plummeting stock values -- clearing venues for trades from financial advisors have been functioning fairly smoothly.
Registered Rep. October 1, 2005 John Kador	Schwab Does It Again Charles Schwab, the pioneering discount broker who was slammed by the tech wreck and suffered through protracted management struggles in the past two years, is beating the wirehouses at their own game.
Investment Advisor January 2006 Andrew Gluck	The Gluck Report, Part I: Watch This One Start-up Trust Company of America is challenging the big custodians and is going after a very specific segment of the RIA business. The company has also just unveiled a technology platform the rivals Schwab, Fidelity and Waterhouse.
Investment Advisor November 2009 James J. Green	B/D Briefing: Citi Brokers Switch to Fees Citi Personal Wealth Management announces that the brokers who operate in Citibank branches will change their compensation models immediately from commissions to fees.
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Registered Rep. September 29, 2005 John Churchill	Are You Charging Enough? With competition fierce -- and clients more informed than ever -- it's important to make sure that you are not selling yourself short. In fact, you may not be charging enough for your financial advisory services.
Financial Advisor January 2005 Raymond Fazzi	RIAs Enjoy A Fertile Market Registered investment advisors have an opportunity as more households continue to enter the realm of the "affluent" and seek advice, but they'd better get the operational side of their practices in order.
Financial Advisor August 2006 Raymond Fazzi	Custodians Duel Over New Services Competition in the fee-based advisory field and the pressure to grow assets and operations is not only forcing changes upon advisors, but also the custodians who serve them.
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