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Registered Rep. October 1, 2012 Diana Britton	A Package Deal Most advisors would say they want to do what's best for their clients. But if that's the case, they better not manage their clients' money on their own; better leave that to the home office, new research from Cerulli Associates shows.
Registered Rep. December 20, 2012 Diana Britton	Are Your Clients Cheating on You? Probably You may be in denial, but chances are, your clients are cheating on you. A recent report by Cerulli Associates found that 74 percent of investors own a direct investing account, but advisors believe it's much less.
Registered Rep. January 22, 2015 Ryan W. Neal	Advisor Industry Shrinks While Assets Continue to Grow A recent report by Cerulli Associates found that the industry shrank 1.9 percent to 287,119 advisors in 2013. Asset levels, however, are on the rise.
Registered Rep. July 30, 2012 Jerry Gleeson	Failing at Succession? Cerulli Associates estimates that nearly 60 percent of advisors who are within five years of retiring expect to sell their business to an unidentified buyer. Five years is not enough time.
Investment Advisor September 2009 Melanie Waddell	Not So Fast Cerulli Associates data suggests there may be fewer wirehouse brokers breaking away.
Financial Advisor March 2012	So You Think You're A Financial Planner? A recent study from industry research firm Cerulli Associates looked at advisors across all channels and compared how they describe themselves with how they actually do business.
Registered Rep. August 1, 2005 Matt Barthel	RIAs in Flux The pioneering ways of registered investment advisors (RIAs) are coming back to bite them. Once on the cutting edge of "holistic" financial planning and fee-based client relationships, RIAs are now just one of a pack of firms offering such services.
Registered Rep. November 4, 2011 John Aidan Byrne	Rep-as-Portfolio Manager Programs Taking Off Despite the compliance hurdles, more than one third of financial advisors see direct handling of clients' assets by FAs acting as their portfolio managers clearly outpacing other fee-based management styles in the next three years.
Registered Rep. August 29, 2012 Jerry Gleeson	Devil Take the Hindmost The headlines in the media note that advisor headcount was down 2.3 percent overall in 2011. But it was the independent broker/dealer market that accounted for the biggest hit in the numbers.
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.
Registered Rep. December 8, 2015	2015 Broker Report Card: How National Brokerage Firms Stack Up REP.'s 25th annual Broker Report Card is the survey that lets advisors from the six major national brokerages rate their employers across a range of factors
Registered Rep. March 1, 2003 Ross Tucker	Fees? Sigh, Ho Hum Relatively few brokers are increasing their commitment to fee-based advisory practices, even in this everything-to-gain-from-change economic environment.
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.
Financial Planning February 1, 2010 Donna Mitchell	More Money in Motion During the financial crisis, the majority of high-net-worth clients maintained accounts with at least two financial advisors, Boston-based Cerulli Associates said in a January report.
On Wall Street September 1, 2010 Howard J. Stock	Talent Shortage Grips Firms As Financial Advisors Age After years of recruiting only established, top advisors in the so-called "war for talent" instead of hiring younger employees and training them, the industry is now facing a shortage.
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.
Registered Rep. February 12, 2003 Ross Tucker	Slow Growth in Fee-Based Business Relatively few brokers are increasing their commitment to fee-based advisory practices, a new report indicates.
Registered Rep. June 4, 2013 Diana Britton	Fading Bull Our annual compensation survey shows advisors are riding the market rally -- so what happens when it ends?
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 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. September 11, 2009 Halah Touryalai	Survey Says: Wall Street Advisors Going...Wait For It...Independent! Wall Street wirehouse firms are expected to see a net loss of $188 billion in client assets to other channels in the industry, including RIAs, independent broker/dealers and regional b/ds.
Registered Rep. March 2, 2015 Megan Leonhardt	Rep as Portfolio Manager Wirehouse and national firms are the most likely to offer advisor-directed platforms, followed by the bank and independent broker/dealer channels.
Investment Advisor September 2008 Eric Schwartz	B/D or RIA? The Case for the Flexible B/D How independent broker/dealers and advisors can thrive by leveraging the trends of the future.
Registered Rep. May 1, 2008	It's Okay to Outsource The number of financial advisors who say they regularly outsource at least a portion of the portfolio-construction process more than doubled to 34 percent in 2007, up from just 14 percent in 2006.
The Motley Fool May 20, 2004 Tim Beyers	American Express Unit in Scandal The broker could be a target of a regulatory inquiry into mutual funds revenue-sharing. How can you tell if your own broker or advisor has a conflict of interest?
Registered Rep. July 1, 2006 Kristen French	Independent Channel Big and Getting Bigger Every financial-advice channel grew in terms of advisor headcount in 2005 except for the regional and bank broker/dealers, according to recently released research.
Investment Advisor May 2008 Melanie Waddell	Donohue on the Rand Report & Paulson SEC exec doesn't foresee a single regulator for advisors and broker/dealers.
Investment Advisor November 2009 James J. Green	Hybrids on the Rise Asset managers have reacted to the market crisis of 2008 by cutting their overall salesforce personnel by about 5%.
Investment Advisor September 2007 Kathleen M. McBride	A Trend Confirmed? Advisory fees overtake commission revenue at Commonwealth. So what does this mean for the independent broker/dealer industry? Will other firms soon reach the point at which fee revenue dominates?
Investment Advisor June 2006 Kathleen M. McBride	Stretched For broker/dealers who are already stressed, dually registered advisors are a challenge being met in varied ways.
The Motley Fool February 3, 2010 Amanda B. Kish	This May Save the Mutual Fund Industry Finally, investment advisors are wising up. An ongoing change in how many financial advisors get paid is having broad implications for the business.
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.
Investment Advisor September 2008 Melanie Waddell	Striking While the Iron Is Hot Under the direction of Ron Fiske, Fidelity's HybridOne platform aims to serve the booming dually registered market.
Registered Rep. December 2, 2014	Best of the Best 2014 Unlike many of our competitors, we are as transparent as possible about our criteria and methodology when publishing a ranking.
Investment Advisor September 2007 Kara P. Stapleton	Changes Ahead for 403(b)s Retirement plan advisors, distributors, and providers are finding themselves responding on the fly to the trends shaping the 403(b) and 457 markets. New regulations will add paperwork and confusion say critics.
Financial Planning October 1, 2009 Conrad & Mitchell	Indies' Gain Ground Registered investment advisor firms, independent broker-dealers and dually registered advisors are gaining market shares at the expense of wirehouses.
Registered Rep. August 28, 2002 David A. Gaffen	Independent Advisors Squeezed in Downturn "Part of it is due to competitive pressures, but the bulk of problems they're experiencing are really due to what I call the price of independence, which doesn't show during a ten-year bull market."
Registered Rep. February 29, 2012 Jerry Gleeson	It's a Tough Route for Younger Advisors Anew report by Charles Schwab, which shows that advisors under the age of 40 are more likely than their older peers to feel pressure to grow their book of business, or to focus on selling proprietary products.
Registered Rep. March 31, 2015 Diana Britton	How Advisors Are Paid The ascendancy of fee-based compensation in the independent broker/dealer space continues.
Investment Advisor March 2006 Melanie Waddell	The Playing Field: Here, There and Everywhere Dually registered advisors (advisors who are registered with both the SEC and the NASD, and are collecting both fees and commissions) have the best -- and worst -- of both worlds. However, a new study shows when implemented properly, the hybrid model can be very profitable.
Registered Rep. February 14, 2012 Diana Britton	Yield of Dreams: IBD's Biggest Competition Might be a Custodian As margins continue to be squeezed, IBDs are going to have to get creative with where their revenues comes from, and that means expanding into the RIA and custody market. The question is, who'll make the next move?
Registered Rep. March 16, 2012 Kristen French	Wire Houses Minting Fiduciary Advisors -- Or Are They? None of the firms will go on record as to whom specifically in the rank and file is adopting the standard, nor will they provide much detail on what that training looks like.
Financial Planning October 1, 2010 Donna Mitchell	ETFs' Rising Despite a slight increase in mutual fund allocations this spring, ETFs are the real ascendant investment instruments.
Registered Rep. July 23, 2012 Diana Britton	Virgin Banks Few community banks and credit unions offer wealth management services to their customers. But many of these firms are struggling and looking for new sources of income. Broker/dealers are finally tapping these untouched firms with revenue-sharing partnerships.
Financial Advisor May 2005 Raymond Fazzi	Betwixt And Between Hybrid advisors work in both the fee-based and commission worlds.
Financial Advisor March 2012	Wirehouses Still King Of The Hill Despite headlines about breakaway brokers and the ascendency of the independent, fee-based advisory model, the Big Four wirehouses are still holding their own.
Registered Rep. November 15, 2010 Diana Britton	How One Wealth Management Firm Intends To Grow Amid Competition At a time when recruitment activity in the independent broker/dealer channel has slowed, Capital Guardian Wealth Management, a hybrid firm, is undergoing a major growth initiative, with plans to add 15 advisors by year-end.
Investment Advisor August 2010 Melanie Waddell	Broker/Dealer Marketing: Finding Their Voice Broker/Dealers are waking up to the new, post-downturn marketing environment. Here are a few of the best ideas.
Registered Rep. June 1, 2012 Diana Britton	Breaking Out: A New Era in Insurance Insurance firms constantly go through cycles of acquisition and sale when it comes to their broker/dealer subsidiaries. But the current sell cycle is different, and it may shake up how the business works.
Registered Rep. June 5, 2012 Diana Britton	A Regional Resurgence After years of being considered acquisition targets, regional broker/dealers may be making a comeback.