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Registered Rep.
September 6, 2006
John Churchill
UBS Buys Another Brokerage With the ink still drying on its deal to purchase Piper Jaffray's brokerage arm, Swiss firm UBS announced today it will now buy Cleveland-based McDonald Investments, KeyCorp's brokerage unit. 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.
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.
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
Registered Rep.
August 6, 2010
John Aidan Byrne
UBS Advisors Welcome Mortgage Rollout Financial advisors at UBS Wealth Management Americas closely watched this week as the U.S. brokerage rolled out plans to sell more of its own mortgage and lending products through its retail brokerage force. mark for My Articles similar articles
On Wall Street
October 1, 2009
Helen Kearney
UBS Weighs Options as the Suddenly Smallest Wirehouse No one can deny it's been a tough year for UBS's wealth management business in the U.S. mark for My Articles similar articles
Registered Rep.
April 26, 2011
John Aidan Byrne
UBS Wealth Management Unit Improves Performance UBS Wealth Management Americas, rising from the ashes of its well-publicized disasters, had something to crow about this latest quarter (Q1 2011) mark for My Articles similar articles
Registered Rep.
April 19, 2010
John Aidan Byrne
EXCLUSIVE: Is UBS Turning Around? Brokerage CEO Says Yes. UBS Wealth Management Americas, scrambling to stem the outflow of client assets, is seeing signs of hope. mark for My Articles similar articles
Registered Rep.
December 1, 2011
Kristen French
Broker Report Card 2011: It's Getting Better All the Time Registered Rep.'s 21st annual Broker Report Cards showed advisor satisfaction ratings creeping higher this year across the board -- on everything from compensation and benefits, compliance support and sales support to products. mark for My Articles similar articles
Registered Rep.
June 21, 2006
Kristen French
Morgan Stanley Retail Reports Second-Quarter Gains Finally, some good news for Morgan Stanley's retail brokerage. The unit reported strong second-quarter gains Wednesday, including an impressive surge in advisor productivity, which hit an all-time record for the firm. mark for My Articles similar articles
Registered Rep.
May 4, 2010
John Aidan Byrne
UBS Client Asset Outflows Slow in Q1 Improving market conditions softened the blow as total client assets hit $721.6 billion in the brokerage unit of the Swiss banking giant. mark for My Articles similar articles
Registered Rep.
May 1, 2005
60 Seconds With David Monday Wachovia Securities' new Individual Investor Group leader talks about his plans for the new division. mark for My Articles similar articles
Registered Rep.
July 28, 2010
John Aidan Byrne
UBS Brokerage Unit Turning the Corner? The "turning point" in client fund outflows is about to appear for UBS Wealth Management Americas. 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.
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.
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.
February 6, 2010
John Aidan Byrne
UBS Reorganizes Wealth Management Division (update) The Wealth Management Americas division is aiming to bolster the Swiss bank's brokerage. mark for My Articles similar articles
Registered Rep.
September 22, 2005
John Churchill
Morgan Stanley's Retail Unit Posts Mixed Third Quarter The company's retail brokerage recorded pretax tax profits of $30 million for the third quarter, a healthy 36% gain over last year, despite a continued exodus of advisors and large legal and regulatory costs. But client assets fell versus the prior quarter, an ominous sign. mark for My Articles similar articles
Registered Rep.
October 7, 2009
John Aidan Byrne
Exclusive: McCann Back To Work In October Robert J. McCann, former president of Merrill Lynch, settles a bitter lawsuit with Merrill parent company Bank of America over a non-compete agreement. The settlement frees McCann to return to work this month. mark for My Articles similar articles
Registered Rep.
April 15, 2011
Kristen French
Merrill Earnings Strongest Since Bank of America Takeover Bank of America's Global Wealth and Investment Management division, which includes Merrill Lynch, reported its highest earnings since Bank of America's takeover of Merrill in late 2008, as asset management and brokerage fees rose. mark for My Articles similar articles
Registered Rep.
May 31, 2013
Megan Leonhardt
Sizing Up the Street In the latest earnings cycle, here's how the wirehouses stacked up. mark for My Articles similar articles
Registered Rep.
April 16, 2009
John Churchill
UBS to Cut Lower Producing Advisors The 8,700 jobs UBS plans to cut by the end of 2010 will include 2,000 in the Wealth Management division, many of them financial advisors. mark for My Articles similar articles
Registered Rep.
August 26, 2009
David A. Geracioti
Is McCann Close to a Deal with UBS? Bloomberg is reporting that Bob McCann, the former head of Merrill Lynch's brokerage unit, is nearing a deal with his old employer that will allow him to take a job running UBS's wealth management unit. 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.
May 5, 2006
John Churchill
UBS Posts Strong Gains and Says Hunger for Brokerage Firms Unfulfilled In reporting record first-quarter profits yesterday, UBS expressed interest in following up its recent acquisition of Piper Jaffray's brokerage unit with more purchases. 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.
July 10, 2007
John Churchill
With Wuffli Out, What Next for UBS? A Wealth Management Surge in the USA Peter Wuffli was replaced as CEO of UBS last week after the firm realized millions of dollars in losses in an internal hedge fund. mark for My Articles similar articles
Registered Rep.
February 8, 2011
John Aidan Byrne
Some Bright Spots Among the Red Ink for UBS UBS Wealth Management Americas added client assets and a handful of advisors in the fourth quarter, cushioning the blow from steep legal costs that resulted in a pre-tax loss of $34.6 million. mark for My Articles similar articles
Registered Rep.
August 1, 2006
Ten To Watch 2006 The Innovator: Rob Arnott, Chairman, Research Affiliates... The Manufacturer: Larry Fink, Chairman and CEO, BlackRock... The Watchdog: Mary Schapiro, Chairman and CEO of NASD... etc. mark for My Articles similar articles
Registered Rep.
April 21, 2009
Christina Mucciolo
Smaller Advisors On The Firing Line It used to be that financial advisors never got fired. mark for My Articles similar articles
Registered Rep.
December 10, 2009
John Aidan Byrne
UBS Announces New Comp Plan; Comp Focused on FA Loyalty and Future Production UBS' plan is a departure from brokerages where compensation is typically based on trailing commissions rather than on growth. 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
Registered Rep.
February 7, 2012
John Aidan Byrne
UBS' U.S. Brokerage Boosts Profits, Boasts Most Productive Advisors Despite global market conditions that lowered asset-based fees and transaction-based income, UBS Wealth Management Americas ended 2011 on firmer footing, earning $573 million for the year on revenues of $5.96 billion. mark for My Articles similar articles
Registered Rep.
March 16, 2012
John Aidan Byrne
UBS Betting Big On Asia UBS Wealth Management will embark on a global expansion outside the U.S., announcing yesterday it will hire another 500 advisers in the fast-growing emerging markets and Asia Pacific regions. mark for My Articles similar articles
Registered Rep.
April 17, 2009
Halah Touryalai
Smith Barney Losing Advisors, Client Assets But while Smith Barney is losing reps, it also appears to be recruiting heavily. mark for My Articles similar articles
Registered Rep.
March 15, 2010
John Aidan Byrne
McCann Is the Man at UBS; Name Change to PaineWebber? The much-anticipated revival plan for UBS Wealth Management Americas will cap off a series of recent organizational changes garnering support from an important constituency: advisors at the beleaguered brokerage. mark for My Articles similar articles
Registered Rep.
September 22, 2011
John Aidan Byrne
McCann Memo Aims to Reassure Jittery UBS Brokers In a strongly-worded memo this week to employees at UBS Wealth Management Americas, CEO Bob McCann assured them that matters are under control. mark for My Articles similar articles
Registered Rep.
November 1, 2003
David A. Gaffen
Is Wall Street Abandoning Main Street? Are the major brokerage firms losing interest in the everyday investor who has been the very foundation of many of its successes? 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.
October 13, 2011
John Aidan Byrne
Financial Advisors Embrace Mobile Computing Financial advisors are finally catching up with their clients in mobile computing. mark for My Articles similar articles
Registered Rep.
August 27, 2009
Halah Touryalai
Uncertainty at UBS, Can UBS Afford McCann? The latest news out of UBS involves former Merrill executive, Bob McCann, who's dealing with a non-compete clause that's keeping him from supposedly joining the firm. mark for My Articles similar articles
Registered Rep.
April 20, 2011
Kristen French
Wells Fargo Reports Record Cross-Selling, Asset Inflows Wells Fargo's wealth management division reported stronger earnings, revenues and FA headcount in the first quarter, while cross-selling hit a record and client asset inflows were at their highest since Wells acquired Wachovia in late 2008. mark for My Articles similar articles
Registered Rep.
March 28, 2008
David A. Geracioti
More Trouble In Auction-Rate Securities Land The State of Massachusetts Secretary of State is investigating the sales practices of auction-rate securities, to learn how these securities are presented to individual clients in the state. 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
Registered Rep.
December 1, 2006
Kristen French
60 Seconds with Deborah Doyle McWhinney A short interview about the rivalry between the registered investment advisor (RIA) firms that Schwab caters to and Wall Street wirehouses. mark for My Articles similar articles
Registered Rep.
June 1, 2006
Kristen French
The Wealth Management Quest Are you really a wealth manager? Do you know what the phrase really means? It pays to know, because a new compensation report shows only 8% of advisors -- across all business channels -- actually fit the bill. mark for My Articles similar articles
On Wall Street
July 1, 2009
Helen Kearney
RBC Swooping in on UBS Advisors A string of veteran UBS advisors have made the jump to RBC Wealth Management over the past eight months. mark for My Articles similar articles
Registered Rep.
January 1, 2008
Independent Advisor Services, LPL Bill Dwyer President A conversation with Bill Dwyer, President of LPL Financial Services in San Diego, California, a financial services firm with $231.8 billion in client assets under management. mark for My Articles similar articles
Registered Rep.
March 27, 2012
John Aidan Byrne
Management Shakeup at UBS Wealth-Management Americas A management shakeup by CEO Bob McCann at the Americas brokerage unit of Swiss bank UBS AG will see two of his top executives assume more direct responsibility over its financial advisors, according to people familiar with the changes. mark for My Articles similar articles
Registered Rep.
June 10, 2010
John Aidan Byrne
UBS Ran Gauntlet, Beats Merrill, Says Bob Mulholland "We are really the only major relevant firm that actually went into the 2008 and 2009 abyss and came out the same firm," Mulholland told Registered Rep. mark for My Articles similar articles