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Financial Advisor
February 2011
Evan Simonoff |
A Different Playing Field Regulatory reform is at the top of RIAs' minds going into 2011.   |
Registered Rep.
December 20, 2010
Diana Britton |
RIAs Reinvesting in Their Firms Despite Economic Uncertainty Forty-six percent said they are optimistic about the direction of the economy, up 30 percent from last quarter. |
Investment Advisor
August 2009
James J. Green |
Now and Then An interview with Tom Bradley, president of TD Ameritrade Institutional. |
Registered Rep.
June 25, 2009
Halah Touryalai |
Regulation, Not Growth, Is Top Concern for RIAs Clients are demanding more of their time, revenues are taking a hit and on top of it all, there's potential for major regulatory changes in their industry. |
Investment Advisor
July 2009
Melanie Waddell |
Regulatory Reform Angst It's clear that advisors are worried about the impact of regulatory reform measures. |
Financial Advisor
June 2012
Jim McConville |
Advisor Groups Renew Challenge To Finra's SRO Cost Estimates A coalition of financial advisor industry groups last month resumed its assault on the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority's cost estimates for creating a self-regulatory organization to review investment advisors. |
Investment Advisor
March 2009
James J. Green |
Catching Up With... Catching Up With Tom Bradley |
Financial Advisor
July 2009
Sherri Scordo |
Compliance Concerns There's a lot of buzz these days about potential changes in compliance rules and the impact on advisors. |
Investment Advisor
February 2009
Melanie Waddell |
Is Mary What the SEC Needs? The alternative to FINRA overseeing advisors, and what advisors would definitely prefer, is a self-regulatory organization. |
Financial Advisor
November 2009
Jeff Schlegel |
The Great Debate Financial services reform is coming. How will it impact advisors? |
Financial Planning
March 1, 2011
Larry Light |
The Tradeoff Registered investment advisors may end up getting to know a new regulator, but the tougher fiduciary standard they live under will also be extended to cover their broker-dealer rivals. |
Investment Advisor
September 2010
Thomas D. Giachetti |
The Compliance Coach: Will the SEC Ever Learn? Don't Count On It Get ready for new custody and ADV rules, and the $100 million threshold. |
Financial Planning
April 1, 2010
Donna Mitchell |
Going for Growth As RIAs gear up to grow their practices this year, they are doing more than scooping up unhappy wirehouse clients. They have identified three major strategies: increase spending on marketing, more technology, and improve client service. |
Registered Rep.
April 18, 2011
Jerry Gleeson |
TD Ameritrade Signs Up More Breakaways TD Ameritrade saw 95 breakaway brokers sign up last quarter, bringing average initial assets of $30 million each to the custodian platform. |
Financial Advisor
November 2011
Evan Simonoff |
What Gives At The SEC? For several decades, the Securities and Exchange Commission has contended that it does not have sufficient resources to examine and inspect RIAs. Consequently, many have concluded that Finra is the default option for all RIA regulation. |
On Wall Street
February 1, 2013
Kenneth Corbin |
Regulatory Forecast Bodes Change Advisors could see talks on oversight and a fiduciary standard move forward this year. |
Investment Advisor
April 1, 2011
Ron Rhoades |
An Alternative to FINRA Oversight "I expect FINRA and its allies to continue to push to extend its jurisdiction to some or all investment advisors," says Investment Adviser Association Executive Director David Tittsworth. |
Financial Advisor
December 2011
Eric Rasmussen |
Free-Range Advisors Custodians to independent advisors are in an arms race to give bigger, better software and practice management packages. |
Investment Advisor
July 1, 2011
Melanie Waddell |
Fiduciary D-Day Arrives As the SEC launches into rulemaking, lots of 'thorny issues' will surface. |
Financial Advisor
July 2011
Andrew Gluck |
Redefining Financial Advice The fate of professionalization and the FPA hang in the regulatory balance. |
Financial Planning
December 1, 2008
Brooke Southall |
RIA Power Registered investment advisory firms are bringing in more assets these days than are wirehouse brokerage firms. |
Registered Rep.
July 19, 2011
Jerry Gleeson |
TD Ameritrade Reports Lower Profit, but, at RIA Unit, Breakaway Recruitment Is Up Profits and revenues fell at TD Ameritrade Holding Corp. last quarter as trading waned at the discount brokerage, but Chief Executive Fred Tomczyk said TDA Institutional has brought on 260 breakaway brokers over the past three quarters |
Investment Advisor
January 1, 2011
Melanie Waddell |
FINRA Jockeys for SRO Spot as SEC Report to Congress Nears The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority is engaged in a full-court press to convince the SEC that it should be the SRO for advisors. |
Registered Rep.
April 17, 2012
Jerry Gleeson |
TD Ameritrade Recruitment of Breakaways Up 10% The number of breakaway brokers joining TD Ameritrade in its fiscal second quarter continued at the double-digit pace set in 2011. |
Registered Rep.
February 7, 2012
David A. Geracioti |
Von Aldo: AMTD Institutional Promotes Bradley, Nally Just two days after the close of iTD Ameritrade Institutional's annual gabfest, Tom Bradley, the president of the institutional unit, was named head of TD Ameritrade Holdings' retail distribution unit. Succeeding him will be Tom Nally. |
Financial Advisor
September 2012
Jeff Schlegel |
Not Making The Grade Financial advisors aren't as fiduciary as they should be, a new survey finds. |
Financial Advisor
October 2011 |
Frontline News Independent Advisors On The Rise... Uncertain Times For BofA Advisors... Gen Y Good Target For Advisors... etc. |
Registered Rep.
March 14, 2012
Jerry Gleeson |
The Long Goodbye This year, about 3,200 mid-sized RIAs will say goodbye to the Securities and Exchange Commission, transferring their registration to the states where they do business. |
Investment Advisor
May 2010
David Tittsworth |
What a Reinvigorated SEC Will Mean for You The first in a series of occasional commentaries by the executive director of the Investment Adviser Association. |
Investment Advisor
May 2010
James J. Green |
Simple, Not Simplistic Tom Giachetti preaches a simple approach to compliance for advisors: Know what you need to do, but also what you don't need to do. |
Registered Rep.
October 28, 2015 |
TD Ameritrade Institutional: Helping a Diverse Industry Find a Common Voice TD Ameritrade Institutional has made it their mission to press for the kind of recognition and collective influence afforded other professional industries. |
Investment Advisor
March 2009
James J. Green |
News: A Sense of Resolve? Among RIAs and broker/dealers, the need to move ahead trumps market uncertainty. |
Financial Planning
December 1, 2010
Donna Mitchell |
Turning on the Charm Next month the SEC reports to Congress on its recommendations for enhancing examinations for investment advisors. FINRA, meanwhile, is trying to persuade movers and shakers on the Hill that it already has the answers. |
Financial Advisor
March 2006 |
Frontline News AST Trust Purchases Capital Trust Co. Of Delaware... Intuit Poised To Release PortfolioMinder... Financial Advisor Plans Top RIA Ranking... Morningstar Workstation Available At TD Ameritrade... Rule Is `First Step'... etc. |
Financial Advisor
March 2005
Tracey Longo |
The Watchdog Inside Your Firm The SEC is making your chief compliance officer a whistleblower. Advisors' success with regulators in 2005 will depend largely on whether they trip themselves up or are able to create a business model that is better aligned with their clients. |
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. |
Investment Advisor
May 1, 2011 |
Follow the Leaders: The 2011 IA 25 Announcing the 2011 IA 25 - Fiduciary, behavior, retirement and much more |
Financial Planning
August 1, 2009
Bob Veres |
A Swiftly Tilting Planet How will brokers and financial advisors fare in the government's battle to regulate the securities industry? |
Investment Advisor
August 2009
Bob Clark |
Clark at Large: Something About Mary The drive to reregulate financial advice shifted into high gear on June 17, when the Obama Administration released its white paper containing proposals for 21st Century Financial Regulatory Reform, and passes it to SEC chair Mary Shapiro. |
Financial Planning
October 1, 2010
Brian Hamburger |
Regulation Season A look forward at the real effects of regulatory change - and they could be as unattractive as they are expensive. |
Financial Advisor
October 2012
Brian Hamburger |
Sleight Of Hand The apparent death knell of Finra as an SRO by no means signals victory. |
Financial Planning
April 1, 2012
Bob Veres |
21st Century Regulation What is the best way to regulate fiduciary RIAs? How best can we identify and weed out bad apples and better protect consumers in the process? |
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.
April 9, 2012
Jerry Gleeson |
RIA Rising: TD Ameritrade's Dorsey on What Advisors Should do First Peter Dorsey, TD Ameritrade's new managing director of institutional sales, has this tip for advisors: restrain the urge to tell potential clients what you know at the get-go. |
Financial Advisor
February 2010
Sherri Scordo |
Frontline News Financial Services News: Branch Managers Break Away To Independence... Call For Fiduciary Standard Unites Disparate Forces (Sort Of)... Independent Contractor Status Under Review... Retirement Planning Industry To Be A Top Performer In New Decade... more... |
Financial Planning
June 1, 2012
Ackermann et al. |
Hot Topics Ultrawealthy increase allocation to aternative investments... Independent broker-dealers struggling to survive... LPL nabs $560M team... |
Financial Planning
July 1, 2006
Marshall Eckblad |
Chalk One Up for RIAs According to a recent survey, a majority of investors believe stockbrokers and investment advisers owe the same fiduciary responsibilities to their clients. |
Investment Advisor
December 21, 2010
James J. Green |
FSI Endorses FINRA as SRO for Investment Advisors Dale Brown says FINRA option is "best way to address the regulatory gap." |
Financial Advisor
May 2011
Andrew Gluck |
Finra Makes Its Move Who regulates financial advisors may shift. Here's a look at the positions various groups are taking on fiduciary standards. |
Investment Advisor
July 2010
Melanie Waddell |
A Whirlwind of SEC Activity Harmonization of advisor and B/D rules will move forward. |
