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Investment Advisor
April 2007
James J. Green |
Watch LPL Grow The largest independent broker/dealer acquires three Pacific Life Insurance Co. broker/dealers.   |
Registered Rep.
April 18, 2012
Diana Britton |
Tiburon's Roame: Less of a Breakaway Trend, More of a `Broken-Away' Trend Whether you agree with him or not, Chip Roame, managing principal of Tiburon Strategic Advisors, is not afraid to tell you exactly how he sees it when it comes to the financial services industry. |
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. |
Registered Rep.
March 5, 2012
Diana Britton |
Your Broker/Dealer May Be Headed for Divorce As independent broker/dealers continue to consolidate and the search for profitability accelerates, some firms may be considering going self-clearing, analysts and industry executives say. |
Registered Rep.
April 2, 2012
Diana Britton |
Concert Breaks Into the Hybrid Market Via LPL Partnership RIA aggregator Concert Advisor Services has launched a new hybrid platform, Concert Advisors, and partnered with independent broker/dealer LPL Financial to provide brokerage and custody services. |
Investment Advisor
August 2008
James J. Green |
Not Slowing Down LPL Financial is pushing its already big envelope under the leadership of Mark Casady |
Investment Advisor
September 2006 |
LPL Buys UVEST In a move that catapults two strong firms to the forefront of third-party brokerage services to financial institutions, Linsco/Private Ledger Corp. will buy UVEST Financial Services. |
Registered Rep.
March 1, 2007 |
The Upstarts There are some upstart custody/clearing firms who are winning business from the behemoths. |
Investment Advisor
July 2010
James J. Green |
LPL Financial's IPO: The Competitive Equation How the broker/dealer universe will change with LPL's plans |
Registered Rep.
August 1, 2006
Halah Touryalai |
Blotter Wachovia Self-Dealing Suit... Merrill Fined for Firing Rep... LPL: On the Prowl?... |
Registered Rep.
June 7, 2010
Halah Touryalai |
LPL To Go Public. At What Valuation? It's the moment LPL Financial (and much of the broker/dealer world) has been anticipating for at least the last five years. The independent channel's largest b/d filed forms S-1 with the SEC on Friday, signifying its intent to float shares to the public. |
Investment Advisor
August 2010
Janet P. Levaux |
Reform's Impact on Advisors, Broker/Dealers, and Banks "This is a tough law that will also have profound effects on the operations and cost structure of most financial services companies and financial markets," said Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association president and CEO Tim Ryan in a statement on June 25. |
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.
January 14, 2010
Kristen French |
Wells Fargo FAs Grumble About New Tax Withholding Rate Wells Fargo's new tax withholding system applies a flat rate of 25 percent to all financial advisors, causing under/over withholding problems for many employees. |
Registered Rep.
July 14, 2010
Halah Touryalai |
LPL Acquires Retirement Broker/Dealer LPL continues its growth streak with the acquisition of assets from National Retirement Partners, a California based broker/dealer. |
Investment Advisor
January 2007
Kathleen M. McBride |
Symbiotic Relationships When broker/dealers select a clearing firm to partner with, it pays to be choosy. Clearing firms innovate to help correspondents thrive. |
Investment Advisor
May 2006
Kathleen M. McBride |
B/D Briefing: Pick Three In a recent reader survey, when asked where reps would go if they were to consider moving to another B/D, three firms were consistently mentioned: Commonwealth Financial Network, LPL Financial Services and Raymond James Financial Services. Here's why. |
Investment Advisor
January 2006
Melanie Waddell |
A Notch Higher Broker/dealers expect their clearing firms to act like true strategic partners. |
Investment Advisor
January 2008
Kathleen M. McBride |
Clearly Profitable It's an evolution revolution at the big clearing firms. |
Registered Rep.
October 1, 2012
Diana Britton |
Comings & Goings: October 2012 Fidelity Investments recently promoted Abigail Johnson... Denise Morrison has joined Securities America... Wells Fargo Advisors has named Eduardo Queen as strategy director... |
Investment Advisor
July 2007
Jonathan Henschen |
B/Ds in the Year 2010 What the future holds for independent broker/dealers: technology... outsourcing... marketing... practice management... succession planning... alternative investments... fees... |
Financial Advisor
July 2007
Tracey Longo |
The Big Picture Clearing firms stake their future on helping financial advisors' businesses grow. |
Investment Advisor
December 2009 |
Broker/Dealer News New developments at Raymond James, LPL Financial, and Broadridge Financial Solutions. |
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.
October 20, 2010
Jerry Gleeson |
Profits Soar at Wells Fargo, Raymond James The brokerage business of Wells Fargo of San Francisco, and independent b/d Raymond James Financial Inc. of St. Petersburg, Fla., both reported mixed performances today, with sharply higher year-over-year profits contrasting with more subdued sequential results. |
Investment Advisor
November 2007 |
Changes Securities and Exchange Commissioner Annette Nazareth announces her intention to leave the Commission... Derek Bruton joins LPL Financial Services as CEO... CFP Board appoints Carol Lee Roberts to the position of managing director of Examinations and Education... etc. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
Investment Advisor
October 2008 |
Changes PIMCO new CEO Mohamed El-Erian... Tim Murphy president and CEO Investment Capital Holdings... CFP Board hires Steven Barkley and Patrick Cuddy... LPL Financial appoints Robert Moore as CFO... Greg McGreevey... Craig Stearns... Jeffrey Carleton... |
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. |
Registered Rep.
April 17, 2012
Diana Britton |
Live From Tiburon: Is a Self-Serve Revolution Upon Us? Chip Roame, managing principal of Tiburon Strategic Advisors, makes the bold prediction that the self-serve channel is booming. |
Investment Advisor
June 2008
Kara P. Stapleton |
Power of the Platform LPL will build a custodial offering for its own -- and outside -- RIAs. |
Investment Advisor
October 2008 |
News & Products, October 2008 The SEC announces an enforcement action against LPL Financial Corp... ING Advisors Network announced a reorganization... Ameriprise Financial has signed an agreement to acquire H&R Block Financial Advisors... etc. |
Financial Planning
December 1, 2005
Bob Hirschfeld |
Behind LPL's Big Deal Does the largest broker-dealer's sale to investors mean that acquisitions or an IPO are in the offing? |
National Real Estate Investor
October 15, 2003
Parke Chapman |
NASD Fines Wells REIT Sponsor For Rewarding Brokers Wells Investment Services, sponsor of Wells Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT), has been sanctioned by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD) for rewarding broker/dealer reps who sell shares of the REIT with non-cash gifts. |
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.
March 1, 2007
Christopher O'Leary |
Meet the New Davids Smaller clearing houses have an advantage in that they promise to keep out of any business that would directly challenge its client's own products and to stick to a core set of services that includes securities lending, custody/clearing and order-management systems. |
Registered Rep.
March 8, 2007
Halah Touryalai |
LPL's Got `Bank.' What's Next? An IPO? LPL's acquisition last week of three Pacific Life Insurance Company b/ds was just one more step in its quest for a successful sale of the company -- or an initial public offering. |
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? |
Registered Rep.
December 10, 2010
Jerry Gleeson |
Wells Fargo Wants To Expand Wealth Biz Chief Executive John Stumpf was quoted as saying he felt the "sub-optimized" wealth business could stand some expansion. |
Registered Rep.
July 27, 2010
Halah Touryalai |
Overtime Suits Resurface, This Time for Independent Reps On July 22, Mark Thierman, a labor lawyer in Reno, Nevada, filed a complaint against LPL Financial for violating New York State overtime laws by not paying its reps overtime wages. |
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.
October 11, 2010
Susan Konig |
Advisor Movement Should Pick Up in 2011, Experts Predict Aggressive and lucrative recruitment packages essentially prompted anyone who wanted a big check to move last year, Diamond says. |
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. |
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.
April 21, 2004
David A. Gaffen |
Separately Managed Accounts in Beantown According to data from Tiburon, 61 percent of fee-only advisors (RIAs) use no-load mutual funds as the chief component of their investment strategy. |
Investment Advisor
December 2009
James J. Green |
Catching Up With...Gary Gallagher A chat with LPL's executive VP strategic programs and support services. |
Investment Advisor
June 2007
Lauren Barack |
Streamlining Broker/dealers are aiming for a one-click model for their technology platforms. |
The Motley Fool
October 17, 2007
Emil Lee |
All's Well at Wells Fargo Wells Fargo digs in its cleats. Investors, the bank did very well in almost every category. Wholesale banking, asset-based lending, commercial real estate and the mutual fund business all grew by double digits in the past quarter. |
