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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.
Registered Rep. December 4, 2012 Megan Leonhardt	(No) Experience Necessary When it comes to being a financial advisor, the more experience -- the more years you have on you -- the better, right? Not quite. A new study shows that firms should be cautious when bringing aboard advisors heavy on experience.
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Investment Advisor January 2007 Savita Iyer	DC Advisor-Sponsor Matchmaker The relative lack of corporate advisors is a result of inertia on the part of plan sponsors; despite pronouncing themselves dissatisfied with their retirement plans, plan sponsors do not take the easy step of finding a new advisor.
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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.
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The Motley Fool August 13, 2007 Dan Caplinger	Don't Pay Twice for Advice There's nothing inherently wrong with paying for financial advice. But there's a big difference between paying once for a good financial plan versus paying high fees year after year, through good times and bad.
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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.
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