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Registered Rep. August 11, 2015 Megan Leonhardt	Does Stifel Have an Attrition Problem? Over 20 percent of Barclays advisors have departed since Stifel Financial announced it would acquire the U.K. bank's wealth management unit in early June.
Registered Rep. February 27, 2014 Mindy Diamond	Free Agents Many wirehouse advisors are frustrated with increased bureaucracy and a loss of flexibility. In fact, many say they will leave unless their firms re-up the retention deals.
Registered Rep. March 1, 2007 Mindy Diamond	Of Myths and Moving: Revisited The thought of changing firms is a big step for any financial advisor. But don't let cloudy thinking get in your way. Make sure you stop paying heed to old Wall Street myths. Don't fear change. Embrace it.
Registered Rep. October 24, 2008 John Churchill	Merrill Retention Is Adequate for Top Dogs, Scanty for Lower-Tier Producers The long-awaited Merrill Lynch retention package has arrived. Not surprisingly, top producers will probably be pleased, but others may not.
Registered Rep. September 8, 2006 Halah Touryalai	An Offer They Can't Refuse UBS is doing all it can to hold onto as many of the advisors at newly acquired Cleveland-based McDonald Investments as possible -- beginning with a retention package that will be hard to refuse.
Registered Rep. February 16, 2012 Diana Britton	Stifel's Wealth Segment Offsets Decline in Institutional Business in 2011; FA Recruiting `Muted' Despite a bad year for its institutional group caused by the uncertain market environment, financial services firm Stifel Financial's 2011 results were propped up by the stability in its global wealth management segment.
Registered Rep. August 29, 2014 Mindy Diamond	Ten Years of Myths and Moving Why advisors need to purge common "myths" from their thinking about changing jobs.
On Wall Street February 1, 2010 Frances A. McMorris	When Firms Collide: Is Culture Clash Inevitable? Merged companies have been integrated and new executives have taken up their posts, but everyone is still trying to adjust.
Registered Rep. November 6, 2008	Bank Of America To Sign Protocol, Herd Still Weighing Options Bank of America intends to sign the so-called "broker protocol," an agreement signed by most of the brokerage firms and RIAs stipulating what client information is acceptable for a departing financial advisor to take without getting sued by the former employer. But when?
Registered Rep. December 21, 2012 Megan Leonhardt	Looking Back, 2012 A Mixed Bag For Wirehouses Assets mostly were up, but advisors are on the move.
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.
Registered Rep. November 27, 2015 Mindy Diamond	(Emotionally) Free Agents The notes attached to many retention packages -- offered in the wake of the 2009 financial crisis to more than 5,000 advisors at the wirehouse firms -- are set to expire in early 2016.
On Wall Street March 1, 2012 Bill Willis	Creating A Generation of Deal Junkies The market meltdown of 2008 and mergers of financial firms that followed are beginning to feel like a distant memory. What remains in the present are the retention bonuses paid to a substantial portion of the financial advisor population.
On Wall Street March 1, 2011 Conrad & Konish	Compensation 2011 While recruiting packages generate a lot of interest, the actual pay that advisors receive from their firms doesn't get as much attention. So once again, On Wall Street has sifted through the payout grids in our industry for a unique comparison of their pay packages.
On Wall Street September 1, 2012 Bill Willis	Firms Recruit Top Advisors Instead of Developing Their Own Advisors need to feel the love from their firms and their branch managers
Registered Rep. October 20, 2011 Diana Britton	Raymond James Posts Flat Earnings, Record Advisor Productivity in Fiscal Q4 CEO Paul Reilly said the private client group had strong performance driven by record advisor productivity.
Registered Rep. May 12, 2011 Mindy Diamond	Golden Handcuffs Loosen Some advisors who signed retention agreements have already begun looking for a way out, but plan to hold off on the switch for a year or two, until they can pocket more of that retention money.
Registered Rep. October 1, 2006 Halah Touryalai	UBS Offers Hot Retention Bonus UBS is doing all it can to hold onto as many of the newly acquired Cleveland-based McDonald Investments advisors as possible -- beginning with a retention package that will be hard to refuse.
Registered Rep. April 9, 2012 Philip Palaveev	Advisors at Acquired Firms Must Decide: Stay, or Go? Here's Some Tips Staying or going is a critical decision for your practice and given the gravity and consequences of that decision every advisor should take control of the situation. Whether you are staying or going, you should do that on your own terms and not let indecision be the final arbiter.
Registered Rep. June 6, 2011 John Aidan Byrne	Wall Street Brokerages Set For More Advisor Defections? Switching for big signing bonuses spiked during the recent financial crisis when Wall Street's biggest brokerages merged or were acquired. But it died down a bit after Merrill Lynch and Morgan Stanley offered their financial advisors retention packages.
Registered Rep. May 27, 2015 Megan Leonhardt	Can Deferred Pay Buy Long-Term Loyalty? With the level of retention deals falling, firms are turning more to deferred compensation as a means to keep advisors in their seats. But is it a short-sighted solution?
Registered Rep. October 10, 2008 John Churchill	McCann: Merrill Managers Get No Retention, FA Package Due in Two Weeks Merrill's president revealed that managers will get no retention package and only the top third of financial advisors will be getting a deal.
Registered Rep. October 27, 2008 John Churchill	Separate BofA Retention Package Targets Top Half of BofA force Only 50 percent, or roughly 1,000 of the 2,000 Bank of America Investment Services financial advisors, will see a retention bonus.
Registered Rep. September 26, 2014 Mindy Diamond	Take the Sunset Package or Sell the Business? For employee advisors, exploring your firm's sunset program might be a sound way to face retirement.
Registered Rep. April 2, 2012 Diana Britton	It's Official: Morgan Keegan Advisors Now Work for Raymond James The next step in the integration process will be to roll out Raymond James' products and services to Morgan Keegan advisors.
Financial Advisor November 2011 Jeff Schlegel	Back In Gear After a slow period, recruiting is revving up again among broker-dealers.
Registered Rep. August 9, 2010 Susan Konig	How One BOM Retains Top FAs The dizzying industry turmoil of the last few years has induced wirehouses to offer their top producers some of the largest retention packages ever.
Registered Rep. February 28, 2013 Mindy Diamond	You Have Chosen... Wisely These days, advisors have more choices than ever when it comes to business models, making the decision that much more difficult. Which one best suits you?
Registered Rep. September 17, 2008	Merrill Reps: Waiting For Retention News Brokers were told they would be offered retention packages, but no further details have been offered so far.
On Wall Street August 1, 2010 Aarti N. Maharaj	The Wirehouse Way While the lure of independence has traditionally been viewed as the ultimate siren song for many advisors, many in the industry are finding good reasons to stay with the big companies. And it's not all about the money.
Financial Advisor January 2011 Bruce W. Fraser	Crafting A Comeback With new leadership at its parent AIG, Advisor Group's trio of broker-dealers venture forth on the road to recovery.
On Wall Street February 1, 2011 Lorie Konish	Will Advisors' Game Of Musical Chairs End Soon? The market crisis that began several years prompted a frantic game of musical chairs as firms and advisors sought their most competitive matches.
Registered Rep. June 15, 2007 Kevin Burke	Wachovia Extends Olive Branch to A.G. Edwards Reps. Will They Accept? Just 15 days after it announced it was buying A.G. Edwards, Wachovia Securities announced its retention package for A.G. Edwards reps.
On Wall Street December 1, 2010	Five Questions With Dennis Zank In addition to being on the parent company's operating committee, Dennis Zank is also a director of Raymond James' insurance subsidiary.
Financial Planning June 1, 2007 Kathy Gevlin	Advisor Pulse The happiest financial advisors really do put their clients first, asserts the first study of advisor satisfaction.
Registered Rep. November 8, 2010 Kristen French	Merrill Strengthens Golden Handcuffs For New Hires, Recruits Small Fry To receive all of his recruiting bonus money, a new hire must now stick around for 14 years, instead of nine, and all of the back-end money is now deferred, where a big portion used to be in cash.
Registered Rep. February 1, 2006 Russ Alan Prince	Rep's Honor Here is how wealth management readily translates into additional assets under management for financial advisers and what they can do reach this target market.
Registered Rep. November 1, 2007 Erik Kolb	Recruits In The Driver's Seat Recruiting in the independent broker/dealer business has reached a fever pitch. Firms have responded with recruiting incentives such as deferred compensation, transition financing, practice-management help, and sign-on bonuses.
Registered Rep. May 14, 2013 Mindy Diamond	The Economics of Choice In many cases, the economics of the independent model can be exponentially better than those being touted by the wirehouses today.
Registered Rep. March 25, 2008 Halah Touryalai	J.P. Morgan Offers Retention Deal To Bear Reps. Will It Be Sweet Enough? The retention package makes obvious the kind of advisors CEO Jamie Dimon is hoping will call his firm home.
Registered Rep. October 30, 2008 Churchill & French	Merrill Lynch Says Broker Protocol Still Intact, Clarification Forthcoming Merrill Lynch financial advisors put off by non-compete language in the retention package they received last week -- who must now decide whether to sign it -- are getting assurances from Merrill that it's not as bad as they think.
On Wall Street March 1, 2010 Lauren Barack	Time For Creative Recruiting With top advisors locked into retention packages, it's becoming harder for wirehouses to boost their ranks.
Registered Rep. November 26, 2012 Mindy Diamond	Advisors Sober Up For 2013 While the trend toward independence slowed a bit from previous years, 2012 was the year the independent channel legitimized its place next to the more traditional players.
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.
On Wall Street March 1, 2013 Braswell & Konish	Compensation Plans Step Up to Next Level Compensation plans for 2013 come with new incentives for advisors to strive for growth.
On Wall Street January 1, 2012 Frances A. McMorris	The Year of Movement Whether firms are just getting aggressive or retention packages are losing their grip, advisors are watching their own bottom line.
The Motley Fool November 7, 2006 Dan Caplinger	When Your Advisor Quits Facing the retirement of a trusted financial advisor can be traumatic. By remaining objective and cautious during your transition to a new advisor, you can take steps to ensure that you will continue to receive the good advice you've come to expect.
On Wall Street June 1, 2013 Braswell & Konish	Leaders: Ranking the Top Wirehouses and Regional Broker-Dealers This year, the leading wirehouse and regional wealth management firms took the steps necessary to ensure they reap rewards as markets hit new highs.
Registered Rep. January 1, 2007 Mindy Diamond	New Year, New Job? January is a month for making resolutions in all areas of your life. Make one now to take a realistic assessment of your current career situation. Here are two questions every financial advisor should ask himself periodically.
Registered Rep. November 14, 2008	Update: 6,200 Merrill FAs Sign BofA Retention At Deadline Merrill says that only about half of the firm's nearly 17,000 advisors were eligible in the first place, and that they are responsible for about 75 percent of the firm's production.