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Investment Advisor
March 2010
James J. Green |
RIA Growth at LPL The biggest independent broker/dealer is growing rapidly in another way: as a custodian for advisors that use LPL Financial as the custodian for their RIA activities.   |
Registered Rep.
January 25, 2010
Halah Touryalai |
LPL's New RIA Platform Rakes in Assets Since launching the platform in October 2008 through the end of 2009, the firm gathered $7.3 billion in assets. |
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. |
Financial Planning
June 1, 2008
Elizabeth O'Brien |
Set Me Free LPL Financial staked a bigger claim on the independent advisor market last month with the announcement that the broker-dealer will allow its advisors to do business under their own RIA. |
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. |
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. |
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? |
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.
March 6, 2014
Diana Britton |
Independent Channels Continue to Steal from Wirehouses RIA and dually registered advisory channels will grow their share of the advised assets to 26 percent by 2016, according to a report by Cerulli Associates. That growth will largely come at the expense of the wirehouse channel. |
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.
September 1, 2010
Halah Touryalai |
Outgrowing the SERIES 7 There is a coveted cohort of dually registered advisors who are dropping their Series 7 licenses and leaving their b/ds behind. |
Financial Planning
January 1, 2013
Donald Jay Korn |
Top Custodians: Battling for Custody Custodians try different strategies for growth as advisors break away to join RIA firms. |
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.
October 26, 2011
Diana Britton |
LPL Posts Strong 3Q Earnings; Adjacent Acquisition Could Be in Pipeline The real buzz during LPL Financial's earnings conference call was around the firm's acquisition pipeline, which chairman and CEO Mark Casady said was strong. |
Financial Planning
September 1, 2008
Callahan & Malo |
Hybrid Chic A trend toward hybrids in the financial services industry is emerging. Increasingly, firms, advisors and brokers are establishing practices that manage both commission -- and fee-based businesses. |
Registered Rep.
June 2, 2011
Diana Britton |
America's Top Independent Brokerages The Merrills and Morgan Stanleys of the world say it was never an exodus, the migration is over, and it was only those advisors who couldn't make it in the cutthroat wirehouse world who crossed over to the independent side of the business. |
Investment Advisor
September 2009
Melanie Waddell |
Not So Fast Cerulli Associates data suggests there may be fewer wirehouse brokers breaking away. |
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. |
Registered Rep.
May 14, 2015
Megan Leonhardt |
LPL Incentivizes Hybrid RIAs to Bring Assets Over LPL Financial is offering its hybrid advisors up to $100,000 to shift their assets held elsewhere to LPL's advisory platforms, according to an internal communication sent to advisors Wednesday. |
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
December 2009
James J. Green |
Catching Up With...Gary Gallagher A chat with LPL's executive VP strategic programs and support services. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
Investment Advisor
September 2008
Philip Palaveev |
B/D or RIA? How to Decide for Yourself To help make the decision between the registered independent advisor and broker/dealer approach, first ask yourself where you belong. |
On Wall Street
September 1, 2011
Nick Georgis |
Taking The Hybrid Road As more advisors transition to independence these days, a growing number of them are choosing to adopt a hybrid business model that lets them conduct both commission-based brokerage business and fee-based advisory business. For many advisors, the hybrid road may offer the best of both worlds. |
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.
June 2, 2015
Megan Leonhardt |
Compensation Survey 2015: The Slowly Disappearing Commission Moving from a commission-based business to one based on fees, advocates argue, removes conflicts and puts advisors on the same side of the table as their clients. |
On Wall Street
January 1, 2009
Vanessa Drucker |
Looking to Move On Many wirehouse advisors dream of independence -- will more actually move now? |
Registered Rep.
February 7, 2012
Diana Britton |
Are Regulations Killing the Hybrid Financial Advisor? Some advisors say new compliance and regulatory burdens under Dodd-Frank are making the hybrid model untenable. |
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.
May 2, 2011
Diana Britton |
Top LPL Advisor Leaves to Start His Own B/D, Eyes Acquisitions Registered Rep.'s top-rated 2010 independent broker/dealer advisor Ron Carson has announced plans to leave LPL Financial |
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.
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. |
Financial Advisor
January 2006
Raymond Fazzi |
Declaration Of Independence More financial planners are leaving wirehouses to become fee-based RIAs. |
Registered Rep.
July 27, 2011
Diana Britton |
LPL Posts Record Revenues, Asset Levels; Adds 100 Reps LPL Financial reported record revenues in the second quarter of $894 million, a 13.1 percent gain. |
Registered Rep.
October 8, 2015
Megan Leonhardt |
Breakaway Advisors Moving More to Existing RIAs More advisors are looking to leave the wirehouses and brokerages by joining an existing registered investment advisory firm, rather than starting their own. |
Registered Rep.
July 8, 2015
Jerry Gleeson |
No Slowing RIA Growth In the financial advisory industry there are potential regulatory burdens, fickle investors, and crafty competitors -- but nothing has changed the relentless march of the registered investment advisor space since the 2008 crash. |
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. |
Registered Rep.
July 7, 2010
David A. Geracioti |
Compensation 2010. Crisis? What Crisis? 2009 income for RIAs -- while lower than 2008, in some cases by a lot -- rebounded fairly nicely, bringing earnings back to 2007 levels. |
Registered Rep.
February 8, 2011
Jerry Gleeson |
LPL's Casady Sees Better Advisor Growth In `11 Though the firm managed to rack up strong revenue and profit growth last quarter and in fiscal 2010, it did not meet the annual recruiting target of 400 net new advisors that Casady had set. |
Registered Rep.
February 7, 2011
Jerry Gleeson |
LPL Financial Posts Growth in Assets, Advisors LPL Investment Holdings reported higher revenue and adjusted profit numbers for the fourth quarter, as the acquisition of an advisor network in 2010 boosted assets and advisors at the firm. |
Investment Advisor
August 2008
Elizabeth D. Festa |
Springtime for Brokers Custodians and independent B/Ds roll out the carpet. |
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. |
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. |
Registered Rep.
March 1, 2008 |
Independent Together The "RIA-in-a-box" model will attract plenty of wirehouse reps who may have previously balked at the idea of going completely independent, fearing they were unprepared to run their own businesses. |
Investment Advisor
August 2008
James J. Green |
Not Slowing Down LPL Financial is pushing its already big envelope under the leadership of Mark Casady |
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. |
Registered Rep.
April 25, 2011
Kristen French |
LPL Reports First Quarter Income Up 92 Percent LPL Financial reported net income of $49 million, or 43 cents a share for the first quarter of 2011, a 92 percent jump from the first quarter of 2010. |
On Wall Street
July 1, 2010
Lauren Barack |
Beating Back The Independents So a mere eighteen months after the sky fell, is it really possible that life at the wirehouses isn't so bad? |
