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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. December 8, 2015	2015 Broker Report Card: Show Me The Money Advisors' gross production varied widely by firm in this year's survey results.
Registered Rep. December 8, 2015	2015 Broker Report Card: Paying Premium? The percentage of advisors' revenues derived from fee-based business ticked up again this year, for the sixth year running.
Registered Rep. December 8, 2015	2015 Broker Report Card: Stagnating Assets? It's no surprise that younger advisors have fewer assets under management, yet they are growing at a faster clip.
Registered Rep. December 8, 2015	2015 Broker Report Card: Fiduciary Worries The Department of Labor is set to rule that brokers working with retirement accounts meet a fiduciary standard.
Registered Rep. December 8, 2015	2015 Broker Report Card: A Less-Than-Diverse Workforce Of the advisors who participated in the 2015 Broker Report Card, 21 percent were women.
Registered Rep. December 8, 2015	2015 Broker Report Card: Advisor Satisfaction For those advisors employed at national broker firms, overall satisfaction took a hit as markets remain uncertain.
Registered Rep. December 8, 2015 David Armstrong	Editor's Letter: December 2015 The job of an advisor inside the Wall Street firm has changed along with the rest of the industry. It has evolved to a position of greater independence and autonomy, even in the employee model.
Registered Rep. December 7, 2015 Gregory J. Fleming	View From the Top: The Durability of Wealth Management The two powerful forces that are changing every aspect of our lives, technology and demographics, will also change the wealth management business profoundly over the next quarter century.
Registered Rep. December 7, 2015 Brian P. Hull	View From The Top: Customized Outcomes What was true in 1990 remains true in 2015: There is still a need for financial advisors to build and sustain a trusted and valued relationship with their clients
Registered Rep. December 7, 2015 Mary Mack	View From The Top: The Next 25 Years Financial advisors will have so many more tools available to them in the future, but they will still need to have conversations with clients.
Registered Rep. December 7, 2015 John Thiel	View From The Top: Complexity, Diversity and a Greater Need for Advice Over the next 25 years, our industry will learn to see technology not as a disruptor but as an ongoing opportunity to improve our clients' lives.
Registered Rep. December 3, 2015 John Kador	The Puzzler #51: Test Your Knowledge of Today's Financial News These ten questions will quickly tell you how closely you've been attending to important financial news.
Registered Rep. December 1, 2015 Diana Britton	Old-Fashioned Exams Financial advisor exams vary in their requirements, but for any individual looking to work in a brokerage firm or sell investments, the Series 7 exam is the mandatory gateway.
Registered Rep. December 1, 2015 Brad Zigler	Alternatives For The Future With the coming of the end of the zero-rate environment, investors and advisors must rethink their portfolio strategies, most especially their alternative investment allocations.
Registered Rep. November 30, 2015 Kevin McKinley	Five Estate Planning Moves Advisors Should Consider You may not be a lawyer, but there are still several strategies you can employ to save money for your clients and their families, while avoiding potential headaches and heartache down the road.
Registered Rep. November 27, 2015 Anne Field	The OSJ Way to Grow? Mark McGonagle needs to decide his ultimate business vision. Does he see himself building a large office of financial advisors and spending the majority of his time recruiting and doing compliance and supervisory work?
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.
Registered Rep. November 26, 2015 Matt Oechsli	Who Is the Lead Parent? Busy parents don't have the time or inclination to oversee the increasing complexity of their family's financial affairs. That's where an advisor can step in.
Registered Rep. November 26, 2015 Mark Miller	Medicare Changes Coming Up If you haven't done a check-up on your clients' retirement health care costs lately, it's a good time to update the numbers.
Registered Rep. November 24, 2015 Debbie Carlson	Is There a Liquidity Risk in Liquid Alts? Alternative mutual funds are a fast-growing part of the investment space, pushed by asset management companies that are suffering from the larger secular shift away from active and higher-priced management toward index funds.
Registered Rep. November 17, 2015 Lynn O'Shaughnessy	What Public Universities Cost at the State Level Public universities, where most students attend, charge significantly different prices. And the policies that dictate who receives financial aid and merit scholarships also vary dramatically.
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. November 2, 2015 David H. Lenok	A Look Inside The Wealthiest Estate Plans in America How does estate asset allocation change as clients climb the wealth ladder?
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