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On Wall Street September 1, 2010 Aarti N. Maharaj	Five Questions With Amy Strong Joining Financial Research Corp. as a research analyst in 2007, she examines the state of the industry and marketing effectiveness.
Registered Rep. December 7, 2011 Philip Palaveev	The Say on Pay: Registered Rep.'s 2011 Compensation Survey Financial advisors continue to expand their practices, work with more clients and receive ample compensation for their efforts.
Registered Rep. May 8, 2013 Diana Britton	Moving on Up: Go Independent and Make More $ Advisors who switched firms saw a jump in their compensation, especially among those who went independent.
Registered Rep. September 11, 2009 Halah Touryalai	Survey Says: Wall Street Advisors Going...Wait For It...Independent! Wall Street wirehouse firms are expected to see a net loss of $188 billion in client assets to other channels in the industry, including RIAs, independent broker/dealers and regional b/ds.
Registered Rep. August 11, 2009 Kristen French	Wirehouse to Wirehouse Switching Sinks Fewer and fewer financial advisors are leaving one wirehouse for another. Instead, they are heading to independent, regional and institutional firms.
Registered Rep. July 14, 2009 Halah Touryalai	Financial Advisor Switching Firms Jumps in June June was a busy month for financial advisors on the move. The number of advisors switching firms jumped 45 percent in June versus May, according to Discovery Database.
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. October 30, 2015	The State of Independence: Intelligent Advisor The survey covers over 360 registered investment advisors.
Registered Rep. June 4, 2013 Diana Britton	Fading Bull Our annual compensation survey shows advisors are riding the market rally -- so what happens when it ends?
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.
Registered Rep. September 24, 2013 Mindy Diamond	Peeking Over the Fence Is the grass really greener -- and growing faster -- on the other side? Many advisors don't know how limited they are in their growth until they start exploring other options.
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.
Registered Rep. April 29, 2009 Halah Touryalai	Wirehouse Advisors Switch Firms in March The number of reps switching broker/dealers during the month was up 34 percent versus the number who switched in February.
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Registered Rep. February 16, 2010 Mindy Diamond	Recruiting Bonuses Are Still Strong TD Ameritrade, Schwab, Fidelity and Pershing are all reporting that their pipelines of interested advisors is more robust than ever in their collective histories.
Registered Rep. January 6, 2010 Halah Touryalai	Wirehouse FAs Switching B/Ds Slows The number of wirehouse advisors switching broker/dealers has been in steep decline since June.
Registered Rep. December 16, 2009 Halah Touryalai	Wirehouse Switching Slows in Second Half of 2009 In November, just 177 advisors in the wirehouse channel switched firms, the smallest monthly number all year, according to Discovery Database.
Registered Rep. August 29, 2012 Jerry Gleeson	Devil Take the Hindmost The headlines in the media note that advisor headcount was down 2.3 percent overall in 2011. But it was the independent broker/dealer market that accounted for the biggest hit in the numbers.
Registered Rep. October 19, 2011 Diana Britton	Registered Rep/Wealth Management.com Research: Indies, Insurers Take Lead on Social Media RIAs, independent broker/dealers and insurance companies are taking the lead in social media usage, ahead of wirehouses, regional firms and bank brokerages.
Registered Rep. December 4, 2012 Jerry Gleeson	A Lifestyle Choice REP.'s recent "Practice Management" study shows that RIAs tend to use coaches less than counterparts in other channels. Are time and money constraints the reason?
Registered Rep. October 8, 2014 Diana Britton	Are Advisors Disillusioned with Alternatives? According to WealthManagement.com's 2014 AdvisorBenchmarking RIA Trend Report, fewer RIAs are using alternatives in their client portfolios this year than last.
Registered Rep. October 31, 2014	Advisor Views on Alternatives While 70 percent of advisors recommend some form of alternative products to their clients, it's a select group.
Registered Rep. June 2, 2011 Diana Britton	America's Top Independent Brokerages The Merrills and Morgan Stanleys of the world say it was never an exodus, the migration is over, and it was only those advisors who couldn't make it in the cutthroat wirehouse world who crossed over to the independent side of the business.
Registered Rep. July 7, 2010 David A. Geracioti	Compensation 2010. Crisis? What Crisis? 2009 income for RIAs -- while lower than 2008, in some cases by a lot -- rebounded fairly nicely, bringing earnings back to 2007 levels.
Registered Rep. December 8, 2015	2015 Broker Report Card: How National Brokerage Firms Stack Up REP.'s 25th annual Broker Report Card is the survey that lets advisors from the six major national brokerages rate their employers across a range of factors
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. March 1, 2006 David A. Geracioti	To Increase Revenue Increase Time Spent With Clients Clients are happier when financial advisors pay close attention to them, and new research suggests that this can manifest itself in more business.
Registered Rep. May 27, 2015 Megan Leonhardt	Compensation Survey 2015: Breaking Down the Practice Are the firms that serve advisors ready to support a team-based, ensemble model?
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Registered Rep. November 4, 2014 Megan Leonhardt	Wires Have Biggest Social Media Footprint Out of all advisors, it's those sitting at banks who are most reluctant to embrace social media -- only about one out of every five use it, a number that has not budged much from previous years.
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Registered Rep. October 21, 2011 Diana Britton	Nature of the Biz? Insurance Advisors Ahead of the Pack On Social Media Among financial advisors, insurance advisors are most likely to use social media for business purposes and most likely to have landed clients through social media.
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.
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.
On Wall Street July 1, 2010 Frances A. McMorris	The Burgeoning Battle For The Best And The Brightest What are the wirehouse behemoths doing to keep their advisors happy, attract others, and, in turn, maintain the bulk of high-net-worth client assets?
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. August 5, 2010 Jerry Gleeson	Poll: Clients Love Breakaway Wirehouse Brokers Breakaway wirehouse advisors never walk alone. A new report by Aite Group on the independence movement shows that reps from the big houses demonstrate superior client retention when they leave their employers.
Registered Rep. November 1, 2006 Kevin Burke	Money Managers Don't Get RIA Market A large number of money managers still haven't figured out how to tap the registered investment advisor market to sell their funds, according to research.
Registered Rep. October 31, 2014 Megan Leonhardt	The Lost Opportunity Despite the greater freedom and advantages using the tools can bring, only 53 percent of advisors at RIA firms are using social media for business.
Registered Rep. May 26, 2010 Jerry Gleeson	Bonuses No Balm For Some Breakaway-Minded Brokers Paying retention bonuses to top brokers to keep them from jumping ship is a pricey strategy that only works some of the time, a report released today by Aite Group shows.
Financial Planning August 1, 2010 Donna Mitchell	Who's Planning? A study by Boston-based AiteGroup found that only 18% of independent advisors make financial planning the center of their practice.
Registered Rep. December 4, 2012 Jerry Gleeson	Taking Care of Business A survey this year by REP./Wealth Management.com shows how RIA attitudes differ from those among advisors in other channels.
Registered Rep. November 13, 2015 Ryan W. Neal	Despite Volatility, Advisor Confidence High The market volatility in the third quarter wasn't enough to shake advisor optimism.
Registered Rep. September 1, 2005 Kevin Burke	RIAs and Their Fat Payouts Registered investment advisors continue to take home fatter paychecks than their counterparts at regionals and wirehouses, even after factoring in the RIAs' higher overhead.
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Registered Rep. December 21, 2011 Diana Britton	Aite: Bloom Coming Off the Rose of Social Media? Financial advisors are just getting started, and already, the bloom seems to be coming off the rose, Aite Group says.
Registered Rep. April 7, 2011 Kristen French	Switching To Independent Model Keeps Up Pace Migration to the independent financial advisor model -- independent b/ds and RIAs -- is likely to continue unabated in 2011.
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.