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Registered Rep.
November 14, 2005
John Churchill
For Advest Reps, Clock Is Ticking With only two weeks left before Merrill Lynch closes its deal to buy Advest Group, top reps at the Hartford, Conn.-based firm continue to run for the exits. This past weekend another $8 million in production decamped for other firms. mark for My Articles similar articles
Registered Rep.
September 15, 2005
John Churchill
Merrill Gets Advest Cheap Merrill Lynch reportedly paid $400 million for the purchase of the Advest Group from AXA. The purchase includes the private client group, an asset management arm and a capital markets group. According to analysts, Merrill got the firm cheap. mark for My Articles similar articles
Registered Rep.
November 22, 2005
John Churchill
For Merrill and Smith Barney Acquisitions, It's Wait n' See The financial firms' respective purchases would have added hundreds of regional brokers to their retail brokerage units, but many of these departing brokers have decided they don't want to work for a big firm and are finding sweet recruiting deals at smaller shops. mark for My Articles similar articles
Registered Rep.
November 1, 2005
John Churchill
Merrill Carrot to Advest Reps Merrill Lynch has proffered retention packages to newly acquired Advest Group's financial advisors, and according to industry observers, the packages are having their desired effect. mark for My Articles similar articles
Registered Rep.
September 14, 2005
John Churchill
Mother Merrill Adopts Advest From AXA Merrill Lynch and AXA Financial, part of the French insurance giant AXA, announced today that Merrill would buy The Advest Group, AXA's full-service retail brokerage arm. Both firms' shares rose on the news. mark for My Articles similar articles
Registered Rep.
May 1, 2006
John Churchill
UBS Bellies Up to the Acquisition Table With the cost of recruiting and training soaring, firms continue to turn to acquisitions. The recent purchase by UBS of Piper Jaffray's brokerage unit won't be the last as competition for clients and their assets continues to intensify. mark for My Articles similar articles
Registered Rep.
July 1, 2006
Mindy Diamond
Culture Shock Two questions that should be on the mind of regional brokers are: "Would I want to work in a wirehouse, and will it serve my clients' needs?" mark for My Articles similar articles
Registered Rep.
January 1, 2006
Kristen French
Too Hot to Touch The recent acquisitions of Legg Mason's retail brokerage by Citigroup and Advest by Merrill Lynch brought an interesting recruiting problem into high relief: Raiding. mark for My Articles similar articles
Registered Rep.
February 1, 2006
Kevin Burke
Hired and Fired Up The biggest brokerage businesses are showing that even in a modest market upswing they now have in place a strategy for delivering stronger and steadier sales and earnings growth. mark for My Articles similar articles
Registered Rep.
November 1, 2005
Kevin Burke
Reshuffling the Decks There is an unusual amount of reorganization afoot, with Merrill, Wachovia, UBS, Morgan Stanley and Smith Barney all shaking up their retail brokerage operations. Some of the moves have direct implications for retail advisors. mark for My Articles similar articles
On Wall Street
January 1, 2009
Frances A. McMorris
The 10th Annual Recruiters Roundtable Packages get lowered. Brokers get hired. Markets have tanked. Retention offers are shrinking. And yet, according to the experts in our 10th Annual Recruiters Roundtable, there are still opportunities in the retail brokerage arena, if you know where to look. mark for My Articles similar articles
Registered Rep.
April 11, 2006
John Churchill
UBS Snaps Up Piper Jaffray's Brokerage Unit The Swiss banking giant UBS added the retail unit of Midwestern gem Piper Jaffray today to its wirehouse brokerage division for $500 million in cash and other considerations. mark for My Articles similar articles
Registered Rep.
December 1, 2004
David A. Gaffen
Meet the New Boss, Different From the Old Boss November's news that Bob Mulholland was leaving Merrill Lynch wasn't entirely a surprise. He had been co-head of the 14,000-strong retail brokerage unit, but Merrill insiders figured all along that only one boss would prevail. mark for My Articles similar articles
Registered Rep.
April 19, 2006
Kevin Burke
Merrill's Brokerage Earnings Up Pretax earnings at Merrill Lynch's global private client group rose 27% in the first quarter ending March 31 to $646 million, up from $510 million in the same period a year ago. As might be expected, the division's headcount increased along with profits. mark for My Articles similar articles
On Wall Street
January 1, 2011
Recruiting's Next Big Challenge A conversation with industry headhunters about the job market for financial advisors. mark for My Articles similar articles
Registered Rep.
November 1, 2005
John Churchill
The Money Squeeze There's one thing that stands between the big retail brokerage firms and the high profit margins that the executives of these firms and their investors seek: the financial advisor. mark for My Articles similar articles
Registered Rep.
February 8, 2006
Kevin Burke
Merrill Brokers to Get Less Money Now, More Later--If They Stay Merrill Lynch has changed the way it pays its brokers to include more deferred compensation and less cash. The new package rewards brokers who stay a long time, while penalizing those that don't. Its aim is reducing turnover, but may also improve the firm's earnings. mark for My Articles similar articles
Registered Rep.
July 18, 2006
Kevin Burke
Merrill's Brokerage Unit Records Huge Second-Quarter Gains Merrill's global private client group (GPC) registered a pretax earnings increase of 53%, to $701 million, in the second quarter ending June 30, up from $457 million in the same period in 2005. mark for My Articles similar articles
Registered Rep.
June 1, 2005
Kristen French
Star Wars Recruiting competition between the top brokerage firms is fiercer than ever, and Morgan Stanley is currently wielding one of the most powerful deals on Wall Street. mark for My Articles similar articles
Registered Rep.
May 31, 2007
Kevin Burke
Wachovia Buys A.G. Edwards for $6.8 Billion, Creating New Rival to Merrill, Smith Barney The deal puts Wachovia among the top three competitors in retail brokerage -- in terms of both assets and advisors -- and retail banking. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
Registered Rep.
January 1, 2006
John Churchill
More, More, More Faced with growing competition from other advice providers and fewer inherent advantages in the way of products and platform capabilities, wirehouse brokers will feel pressure to do more fee-based business and to make wealthier clients a bigger part of their practice. mark for My Articles similar articles
On Wall Street
January 1, 2010
The Hire Powers Speak Out Headhunters open up about hiring, entrepreneurial mindsets, and wirehouse business models. mark for My Articles similar articles
On Wall Street
September 1, 2009
Helen Kearney
On Life Support a Year Ago, Merrill Pays for Top Producers Merrill, under BofA, seems to be on the hunt to add to its ranks, and it's offering a very competitive package that has almost unlimited upside for top producers. mark for My Articles similar articles
Registered Rep.
October 20, 2005
John Churchill
Merrill Call Center Under Microscope The financial firm's brokerage call centers, its service centers for less complicated and less profitable accounts, are under investigation by the NASD for past improprieties. mark for My Articles similar articles
Registered Rep.
November 18, 2005
Kristen French
Smith Barney Cuts Pay for Smaller Brokers The new pay scale was announced to brokers internally in October and will take effect in January. mark for My Articles similar articles
Registered Rep.
July 1, 2006
Kristen French
One More Snag in Merrill-Advest Deal Two former Advest reps have filed a class-action lawsuit against Merrill Lynch and Advest for hijacking several hundred thousand dollars in accrued benefits they say were promised to them as Advest employees. mark for My Articles similar articles
Registered Rep.
August 10, 2004
David A. Gaffen
Fleeing Brokers Can Take Some Client Info Three of the nation's largest brokerage firms have agreed to make it easier for registered reps to take clients with them when they change firms, eliminating a lot of the cloak-and-dagger antics that brokers often suffer when making a move. mark for My Articles similar articles
Registered Rep.
October 1, 2005
Christopher O'Leary
It's in the Bank Wirehouse veterans who have switched to bank brokerages say Wall Street's perception of bank brokerages is stuck in the past, and that the best bank brokerages have become much more competitive in terms of production, assets and compensation. mark for My Articles similar articles
Registered Rep.
December 1, 2002
David A. Gaffen
Light A Candle, or Curse the Darkness For brokers and financial advisors, 2002 may be remembered as the year in which those who knew they had the right stuff redoubled their efforts to elevate their skills and become the kind of advisors who could survive the bear market and build a 21st century practice. mark for My Articles similar articles
Registered Rep.
November 1, 2006
John Churchill
A.G.E. to Catch a Rep Instead of buying brokers like its peers with offers of big upfront forgivable loans, A.G. Edwards is offering its own reps bonuses for successfully recruiting good reps. mark for My Articles similar articles
Registered Rep.
September 15, 2008
Kristen French
Merrill Lynch Sells Itself To Bank of America: Update 3 The biggest question, now that BofA has agreed to buy Merrill Lynch, is what Bank of America will do to hold onto Merrill Lynch's dearest asset -- its approximately 17,000 financial advisors. mark for My Articles similar articles
Registered Rep.
December 21, 2006
Kevin Burke
In a Competitive Recruiting Climate, Merrill Sweetens FA Benefits Merrill Lynch has launched a new benefit program for its army of 15,700 brokers that will provide financial assistance to their families in the event of their death. mark for My Articles similar articles
Registered Rep.
December 1, 2002
Ross Tucker
Happy Holidays! You're Fired. The ax will fall at year's end for some 700 of 13,500 Morgan Stanley brokers. Some branches will be closed entirely. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
Registered Rep.
February 1, 2003
David A. Gaffen
An Employer's Market It's a hirer's market out there, but brokerage firms have not stopped recruiting. In fact, although it is quieter than usual, many firms are still willing to pony up big bucks in hopes of attracting top-shelf talent. mark for My Articles similar articles
Registered Rep.
October 1, 2010
John Aidan Byrne
Who Will be Number One Among the Wirehouses? A good old-fashioned Wall Street fight for retail assets -- and a fierce tussle over which firm can call itself the Number One retail wealth management firm on Wall Street -- is brewing. mark for My Articles similar articles
Registered Rep.
March 4, 2009
David A. Geracioti
The Conflicts of Interest in Not Being a Fiduciary; Hang Charlie Merrill In Effigy? At least one commentator is calling for Charlie Merrill to be hung in effigy for creating the modern-day, hard-charging, sales-oriented brokerage called Merrill Lynch. mark for My Articles similar articles
Registered Rep.
June 1, 2005
John Churchill
Wall Street's Big Curtain Call How baby boomer brokers move into retirement over the next 10 to 15 years will change the face of the industry in many ways. mark for My Articles similar articles
Registered Rep.
August 25, 2006
Kevin Burke
Merrill Fighting Back Against Recent Defections The recruiting war for top brokers remains fierce. The latest evidence of the fight to win million-dollar producers involves the industry's biggest firms. mark for My Articles similar articles
Registered Rep.
May 1, 2004
David A. Gaffen
Mother Merrill's Extreme Makeover A 12-year veteran of Merrill Lynch has noticed a pronounced improvement over the years in the way clients perceive him and his colleagues. mark for My Articles similar articles
Registered Rep.
August 13, 2007
Halah Touryalai
Merrill Grabs Advisors Producing $5.5 million From Rival UBS Merrill Lynch won big last week in the aggressive industry-wide recruiting war for top advisors. mark for My Articles similar articles
Registered Rep.
December 1, 2005
Kristen French
Merrill Lynch: Still Wirehouse Queen Merrill reps like what they see. This year, the firm kept top honors among wirehouses in the Broker Report Card surveys, and beat its own overall score from last year. mark for My Articles similar articles
Registered Rep.
June 27, 2006
Kevin Burke
You Leaving Me?--Mother Merrill Asks Some Top Producers If They're Fixin' to Depart If you are one of Merrill Lynch's best financial consultants and you have been flirting with other brokerages or financial-planning firms, watch out: You could get hit with a Merrill loyalty statement. mark for My Articles similar articles
Registered Rep.
August 1, 2005
John Churchill
Firms to Recruits: Are You Experienced? Across the industry, companies are upgrading training programs to better prepare reps for the growing demands of the job. mark for My Articles similar articles
Registered Rep.
December 1, 2002
David A. Gaffen
Manning the Phones When wirehouses and other major brokerages introduced the notion of call centers a couple of years ago, brokers were suspicious. Although they understood the logic behind the move, it was a difficult adjustment. But call centers are here to stay and brokers are learning to live with them. mark for My Articles similar articles
Registered Rep.
July 21, 2005
Kristen French
On the Gossip Trail: Mack to Replace Schaefer--But With Whom? When Morgan Stanley announced that the head of its struggling retail brokerage unit was stepping down, Wall Street immediately began speculating about who will be chosen as his successor -- and what that successor might augur for the retail brokerage. mark for My Articles similar articles
Registered Rep.
July 26, 2005
Kristen French
Morgan Trainee Program Could Get Whacked John Mack is moving quickly to get Morgan Stanley's ailing retail brokerage in shape. mark for My Articles similar articles
Registered Rep.
July 1, 2006
Kristen French
James Gorman's First Marking Period In his first four months as head of Morgan Stanley's brokerage unit, James Gorman wasted no time showing that a new regime was in place. But he hasn't convinced all the troops that it's worth sticking around to see how his turnaround plans play out. mark for My Articles similar articles
Registered Rep.
March 15, 2012
Kristen French
Did the $5 Debit Card Fee Prompt the Merrill Exodus? Bank of America Merrill Lynch has been bleeding top brokers in the past six months, just as many industry observers predicted. mark for My Articles similar articles