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Registered Rep.
July 28, 2011
Diana Britton |
Ameriprise: Rep Productivity at New High; Securities America Sale in `Near Future' Advisor productivity reached a new high for Ameriprise Financial.   |
Registered Rep.
November 7, 2011
Diana Britton |
Ladenburg Thalmann's Acquisition of Securities America a Done Deal Ladenburg Thalmann has closed the deal to acquire independent broker/dealer Securities America from Ameriprise Financial. |
Registered Rep.
April 26, 2011
Diana Britton |
Ameriprise Profits Rise on Record Advisor Productivity The firm reported its best quarterly advisor productivity ever at $95,000, up 23 percent from 2010. |
Registered Rep.
March 15, 2012
Diana Britton |
Ladenburg Thalmann Revenue Doubles Thanks to SAI acquisition, But Profits Are Slim The spike was primarily due to the company's acquisition of Securities America, adding $57.1 million to Ladenburg's 2011 revenue. Net income for the quarter was $6.4 million, compared to a net loss of $1.1 million for the fourth quarter 2010. |
Registered Rep.
October 28, 2010
Jerry Gleeson |
Ameriprise Profits Pop, Advisors More Productive Ameriprise's Advice and Wealth Management business is doing more with less: fewer advisors, higher revenue and profits. |
Registered Rep.
July 27, 2006
Kristen French |
Ameriprise FAs, Without American Express, Gain New Assets, Improve Average Production by Double Digits So far, Ameriprise seems to be doing just fine without the backing of its former parent company. The firm had a good second quarter, meeting analyst expectations, enjoying strong asset flows, improving advisor productivity and increasing its mass affluent client base |
Registered Rep.
April 25, 2011
Diana Britton |
Ameriprise to Shed Securities America Amid Pending Settlement The company plans to sell its independent broker/dealer unit Securities America, while the firm is still in the process of finalizing a settlement with investors claiming SAI sold allegedly fraudulent private placement. |
Registered Rep.
August 17, 2011
Diana Britton |
SAI Sale to Ladenburg Mostly a Positive for Reps--Depends on Retention Packages Ameriprise Financial's sale of Securities America to Ladenburg Thalmann is mostly a positive for the firm's rep base. |
Registered Rep.
August 13, 2008
Halah Touryalai |
Ameriprise Buys H&R Block Reps Ameriprise Financial is 900 advisors stronger after it purchased H&R Block Financial Advisors for $315 million in cash. |
Registered Rep.
February 3, 2011
Jerry Gleeson |
Ameriprise Advisor Production Still Rising -- Investors Disappointed by Firm-Wide Results The number of advisors continues to drop at Ameriprise Financial, but the company is more than making up for it with sharply higher productivity. |
Registered Rep.
August 17, 2011 |
Ladenburg Thalmann to Buy Securities America Ladenburg Thalmann Financial Services Inc. has agreed to buy Securities America Financial Corp., the troubled independent broker/dealer, from Ameriprise Financial Inc. for at least $150 million in cash. |
Registered Rep.
August 12, 2011
Diana Britton |
$420 Million Team Leaves Securities America for LPL, As Do Others Some advisors have jumped ship from independent broker/dealer Securities America for LPL Financial following news that parent Ameriprise Financial would sell SAI. |
Registered Rep.
March 17, 2011
Diana Britton |
Securities America Faces Settlement Hearing Friday; Legal Liabilities Up in the Air Securities America will face a federal court judge to decide whether the independent broker/dealer gets preliminary approval for a $21 million settlement agreement related to private placements sold by the company. |
Registered Rep.
November 1, 2005
Kristen French |
The Ameriprise Challenge Formerly known as American Express Financial Advisors, the firm officially struck out on its own when it debuted on the NYSE. Ameriprise is one of the largest financial advisory firms, with more than 10,500 financial advisors and over $410 billion in assets. Still it's got a lot to prove. |
Registered Rep.
June 23, 2011
Diana Britton |
Ladenburg Thalmann Possible Buyer in Securities America Sale Ladenburg Thalmann, parent company of Triad Advisors and Investacorp, has emerged as a potential buyer of Securities America, which Ameriprise Financial announced plans to sell in late April. |
Registered Rep.
May 27, 2011
Diana Britton |
FAA Reorganizes Senior Execs to Focus on Recruiting Independent broker/dealer Financial Advisers of America has reorganized its senior management to support the firm's growth and allow senior executives to focus on recruiting advisors. |
Registered Rep.
March 21, 2011
Diana Britton |
Judge Shoots Down Securities America Settlement; Arbitrations Move Forward Securities America's request to bundle several arbitration claims and class action lawsuits into one $21 million settlement agreement related to allegedly fraudulent private placements sold by the company was denied. |
Registered Rep.
August 19, 2011
Diana Britton |
What Will the Securities America Retention Package Look Like? The details of the Ladenburg Thalmann Financial Services' retention packages to Securities America's 1,700 reps are still up in the air. |
Registered Rep.
April 28, 2011
Diana Britton |
Securities America Likely To Sell At Discount Ameriprise needs to find a buyer for Securities America in a hurry. Many advisors, including large producers, are likely to leave the firm, especially between now and the time a buyer emerges, sources told Registered Rep. |
Financial Advisor
January 2012
Bruce W. Fraser |
Full Steam Ahead What could have been a sad chapter for Securities America now seems to be a new lease on life for the firm. |
Registered Rep.
March 28, 2011
Diana Britton |
Securities America Nears Resolution With Plaintiffs Securities America has made "substantial progress" in its mediation with plaintiffs' attorneys involved in class action suits against the independent broker/dealer. |
Registered Rep.
March 25, 2011
Diana Britton |
Securities America Negotiates With Plaintiffs; Saga Continues Securities America met with plaintiff's attorneys to negotiate a resolution to investor claims against the company related to its sale of allegedly fraudulent private placements. |
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. |
Registered Rep.
May 1, 2005 |
60 Seconds With David Monday Wachovia Securities' new Individual Investor Group leader talks about his plans for the new division. |
Registered Rep.
December 7, 2011
Philip Palaveev |
The Say on Pay: Registered Rep.'s 2011 Compensation Survey Financial advisors continue to expand their practices, work with more clients and receive ample compensation for their efforts. |
Registered Rep.
August 9, 2010
Susan Konig |
How One BOM Retains Top FAs The dizzying industry turmoil of the last few years has induced wirehouses to offer their top producers some of the largest retention packages ever. |
Registered Rep.
August 1, 2006
Kevin Burke |
Stay Wachovia's not the first firm to offer multiple affiliation options to its reps -- Raymond James has offered something similar for several years -- but it is the first wirehouse-type brokerage house to do so. Ultimately, the model could serve as a blueprint for the retail advisory business. |
Registered Rep.
February 16, 2010
Mindy Diamond |
Recruiting Bonuses Are Still Strong TD Ameritrade, Schwab, Fidelity and Pershing are all reporting that their pipelines of interested advisors is more robust than ever in their collective histories. |
Registered Rep.
September 13, 2010
Susan Konig |
Wirehouse Recruiting Stalls, Deals Keep Rising but Fewer Advisors Moving These days there are a lot more strings attached to recruiting packages and in the current market they're not great for brokers or firms. |
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.
July 14, 2009
Halah Touryalai |
Financial Advisor Switching Firms Jumps in June June was a busy month for financial advisors on the move. The number of advisors switching firms jumped 45 percent in June versus May, according to Discovery Database. |
Financial Advisor
November 2011
Jeff Schlegel |
Back In Gear After a slow period, recruiting is revving up again among broker-dealers. |
BusinessWeek
September 26, 2005
Adrienne Carter |
Life Without AmEx Ameriprise, the financial-planning unit American Express is cutting loose, faces a crowded field in targeting baby boomers. |
| Registered Rep. |
The Top 30 Independent Broker/Dealers in 2015 The list below is comprised of the 30 largest IBDs ranked by average assets under management per advisor, as of 2014. |
Registered Rep.
July 22, 2010
Christina Mucciolo |
Raymond James Financial and Wells Fargo Retail Brokerage Units Hang In There A report on earnings from two major financial firms. |
Registered Rep.
September 7, 2015
Anne Field |
How to Recruit from the Top R.M. Zalatimo wants to grow by wooing big wirehouse advisors to his independent broker/dealer practice. |
Registered Rep.
March 31, 2015
Diana Britton |
The Rare Prop Product In REP.'s fifth annual Independent Broker/Dealer Report Card, only 19 percent of 2,058 advisors surveyed said they sell in-house or proprietary products. |
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
June 1, 2010
Paul Menchaca |
Survivor Island Firms that endured the worst of the financial crisis and lived to tell about it. |
Registered Rep.
February 18, 2009
Halah Touryalai |
LPL's New RIA Offering Lookin' Healthy; But Still A Pipsqueak Compared To Rivals There are some folks in the industry actually doing relatively well these days. Seriously. LPL Financial said today its new-ish RIA platform now has over $1 billion in new assets. |
Registered Rep.
April 24, 2009
Halah Touryalai |
Raymond James Takes a 2Q Hit -- But Gains Retail Advisors Raymond James Financial posted dismal overall earnings for the second quarter, but its private client group appears to be a bright spot. |
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. |
Registered Rep.
May 5, 2010
Kristen French |
Small B/Ds in A Crunch, Expect More Closures, Mergers In 2010 Squeezed by investor lawsuits, rising compliance and insurance costs, as well as departing advisors and clients, some of the industry's smallest independent broker/dealers are struggling to stay afloat. |
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.
February 15, 2012
Diana Britton |
More Advisors Fleeing Morgan Keegan Morgan Keegan has lost seven financial advisors since December, FINRA filings show. They follow some 190 other advisors who fled over the past six months. |
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 Advisor
November 2010
Bruce W. Fraser |
Out Of Retrenchment Independent broker-dealers see good recruiting opportunities in 2011. |
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. |
Registered Rep.
December 12, 2011
Susan Konig |
Recruiting Wars Heat Up in 2012 A confluence of factors has shrunk the pool of potential recruits for wirehouse firms, and that means competition for the best advisors is fierce. |
Registered Rep.
February 13, 2012
Jerry Gleeson |
Raymond James Ramping Up Its RIA with New Leadership, Investment The new president, Bill Van Law, said the company plans to make a significant investment in the business in the months ahead. |
