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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. June 27, 2013 David Armstrong	Editor's Letter: July 2013 In this issue we look at succession planning for advisors -- an event that can either be a rewarding end to a principal's career or a disappointing fade to black.
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Registered Rep. November 1, 2005 Kristen French	A Shopping Allowance: The Newest Recruiting Tool In the competition for top financial advisors, broker/dealers are offering forgivable loans to advisors who want to purchase other financial advisory practices.
Financial Advisor November 2011 Joni Youngwirth	Outside The Box The pros and cons of choosing an external successor.
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On Wall Street April 1, 2013 Lorie Konish	Five Questions with Matt Matrisian The director of practice management at Genworth Financial offers advisors tips on avoiding common blind spots.
Registered Rep. July 1, 2006 Kristen French	Trading Up The Wealth Advisor Institute, a new trade group for advisors who cater to the wealthy, opened its doors in June.
Registered Rep. July 24, 2014 David Grau Sr.	Charting Your Succession Course The author delineates the usual alternatives for selling an advisor practice.
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Registered Rep. September 30, 2009 David A. Geracioti	Do Retail Financial Advisors Have an "Unhealthy Focus?" The Financial Times suggests the way financial products and services are sold need to be completely overhauled.
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.
Financial Advisor March 2005 David J. Drucker	When The Sum Of The Parts Is Greater Than the Whole Selling your financial advisory practice in pieces may benefit you---and your clients.
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Registered Rep. December 29, 2010 Anne Field	Succeeding At Succession A quarter of firm owners lack an exit plan, according to a 2009 survey by Rydex/SGI's AdvisorBenchmarking. And more than one-third don't have a timeline for when they're going to leave the business.
Registered Rep. August 25, 2010 Halah Touryalai	Better Economic Times Ahead? Your Clients Don't Think So. Advisors seem more optimistic about the economy than their own clients, according to a recent survey.
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Financial Advisor October 2012 Jim McConville	The Plan Have financial advisors gone sour on selling 529 college savings plans?
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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.
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.
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.
Registered Rep. September 21, 2012 Jerry Gleeson	Desperately Seeking Financing For most advisors looking to grow through acquisition, the thorniest issue is finding the cash to do so.
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Registered Rep. June 3, 2015 Megan Leonhardt	Compensation Survey 2015: How Advisors Stack Up Advisors whose business mix leans more toward fees make almost twice as much as those who still lean heavily toward commissions, according to data collected in WealthManagement.com's compensation survey.
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Financial Planning August 1, 2007 John J. Bowen	The Best in the Business Financial advisors can learn much from studying the business practices of their most successful peers.
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Investment Advisor March 2006 Mark Tibergien	Formulas for Success: Preparing for the Fall Are you succeeding at succession? This question increasingly comes up as advisors see each month flip away, and each year change a digit. In the autumn of your career, are you prepared for the inevitable?
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Financial Advisor February 2012	Social Media Losing Some Appeal With Financial Advisors Despite the hype about the benefits social media can bring to financial advisors, most advisors don't find it very useful in their businesses.
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Registered Rep. February 5, 2013 Megan Leonhardt	Gen Y Advisors Unhappy with Independence At a time when the financial services industry is busy courting young advisors, a new study by Pershing shows that Generation Y wealth managers may be slightly more attracted to wirehouses than the independent space.
Investment Advisor June 2007 Mark Tibergien	Real Deals There's more activity than actual movement on the M&A front for financial advisory firms.
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