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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. 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.
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On Wall Street January 1, 2011	Recruiting's Next Big Challenge A conversation with industry headhunters about the job market for financial advisors.
Registered Rep. July 22, 2009	Edward Jones, LPL, Schwab: Keeping Clients Happy FAs, you better be at the top of your game.
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Registered Rep. November 4, 2011 Kristen French	Indie Exodus: Overhyped? In 2009, in the wake of arguably one of the biggest financial crises this country has seen since the Great Depression, over 3,000 financial advisors left Merrill Lynch, UBS, Morgan Stanley and Wells Fargo to start life over at an independent broker/dealer or RIA firm.
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Registered Rep. April 1, 2014 Mindy Diamond	Culture: Hard to Define, Impossible to Ignore Advisors looking to compare and contrast their own firm to others, often see all similarly situated firms as one and the same. A firm's culture is the one thing that is not a commodity.
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Registered Rep. February 15, 2012 Diana Britton	More Advisors Fleeing Morgan Keegan Morgan Keegan has lost seven financial advisors since December, FINRA filings show. They follow some 190 other advisors who fled over the past six months.
Registered Rep. April 20, 2011 Kristen French	Wells Fargo Reports Record Cross-Selling, Asset Inflows Wells Fargo's wealth management division reported stronger earnings, revenues and FA headcount in the first quarter, while cross-selling hit a record and client asset inflows were at their highest since Wells acquired Wachovia in late 2008.
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