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Financial Advisor April 2007 Tracey Longo |
Getting A Share Of Trust Assets Trust assets are up for grabs and often are there for the asking, provided financial advisors know the right questions to ask.  |
Financial Advisor September 2006 Tracey Longo |
There For The Asking? Some agree banks' loss of investors' trust assets is a financial advisor's gain. Now, for that marketing plan.  |
Financial Advisor September 2008 Tracey Longo |
Laws Of Attraction A firm's ability to navigate trusts can be their calling-card to attract high-net-worth clients.  |
Financial Advisor September 2009 Cathleen M. Clauson |
Unlocking Opportunity Trusts are a good way for advisors to expand their businesses. Here's why.  |
Financial Advisor September 2004 Dorothy Hinchcliff |
Here Come The Big Boys Fidelity and Pershing are competing for advisors' trust business.  |
Financial Advisor September 2005 Raymond Fazzi |
A Question Of Trust Custodians square off in a newly competitive trust services market.  |
Financial Advisor May 2011 Eric Rasmussen |
Busting Into Trusts Personal trust assets are moving out of the longstanding grip of bank trust departments. It's the independent RIAs' game to lose if they don't step up.  |
Investment Advisor January 2007 Bob Clark |
The Trust Threat Financial advisors need to rethink adding trust services to their offerings.  |
Registered Rep. January 25, 2010 Halah Touryalai |
LPL's New RIA Platform Rakes in Assets Since launching the platform in October 2008 through the end of 2009, the firm gathered $7.3 billion in assets.  |
Financial Advisor November 2005 Tracey Longo |
All For Advisors Brokerage executives are doing their best to deliver the tools advisors need to move their business to the next level, while still remaining efficient. That includes streamlined technology, investment and rebalancing selections, outsourcing, practice management and business development assistance.  |
Registered Rep. February 18, 2009 Halah Touryalai |
LPL's New RIA Offering Lookin' Healthy; But Still A Pipsqueak Compared To Rivals There are some folks in the industry actually doing relatively well these days. Seriously. LPL Financial said today its new-ish RIA platform now has over $1 billion in new assets.  |
Financial Advisor January 2008 Tracey Longo |
Breakaway Brokers Despite being in business a shorter amount of time than the average advisor, breakaways have more assets under management, higher total revenues and a significantly higher growth rate.  |
Financial Advisor June 2007 Raymond Fazzi |
Follow The Money Broker-dealers sum up the future of advisory services in two words: rich folks.  |
Financial Advisor February 2004 Sydney LeBlanc |
Stature, Service, Size, Simplicity Schwab, Fidelity and Waterhouse are building sophisticated SMA (separately managed account) platforms.  |
Financial Advisor January 2004 Dorothy Hinchcliff |
Custodians Are Knocking More custody players have been clamoring for the business of registered investment advisors, and that trend will continue this year, say two well-known research firms for financial institutions and investment managers.  |
Financial Advisor January 2006 Tracey Longo |
Working Smarter, Not Harder As more independent broker-dealers set themselves up as strategic outsourcing partners, they are finding bigger and better firms driven to their door by stagnant or shrinking profit margins and the accelerating compliance melee.  |
Financial Advisor May 2007 Eric Rasmussen |
What's New At The Custodian Custodians are continuing to offer new services for fee-only planners in their efforts to woo RIAs.  |
Financial Planning June 1, 2008 Elizabeth O'Brien |
Set Me Free LPL Financial staked a bigger claim on the independent advisor market last month with the announcement that the broker-dealer will allow its advisors to do business under their own RIA.  |
Financial Advisor August 2004 Sydney LeBlanc |
Independent Broker-Dealers Improving SMA Programs Historically, independent advisors have been forced to sit on the sidelines while wirehouses led the way in products and technology for separately managed accounts. Increasingly, things seem to be changing.  |
Registered Rep. February 29, 2012 Jerry Gleeson |
It's a Tough Route for Younger Advisors Anew report by Charles Schwab, which shows that advisors under the age of 40 are more likely than their older peers to feel pressure to grow their book of business, or to focus on selling proprietary products.  |
Financial Advisor July 2005 Raymond Fazzi |
Defining Wealth Management The term "wealth manager" has provided more sizzle than clarity in recent years, as more and more advisors have adopted the name as they transition to more comprehensive practices geared toward affluent clients.  |
Financial Advisor November 2008 Gail Liberman |
War Breaks Out For Wirehouse Brokers The economic crisis on Wall Street, among many other things, is causing wirehouse brokers to reconsider the value proposition offered by the giant financial service firms.  |
Financial Planning October 1, 2013 Ann Rieder |
Connect with Clients' Kids: 5 Steps Is your firm prepared for the transfer of assets from your clients to their heirs?  |
Investment Advisor November 2006 |
Now and Then When it comes to plowing through the complexities that are associated with retirement planning, advisors need all the help they can get. Fidelity looks ahead to dominate retirement planning now.  |
Bank Technology News September 2002 Elizabeth Logue |
Wealth management: Advisors Finally Waking Up to the Internet's Useful Influence Bucking the market once again, Charles Schwab is doing the unthinkable: encouraging financial advisors to use the Internet to service affluent customers.  |
Financial Advisor August 2012 Karen DeMasters |
The Great Migration Though they aren't moving as fast as they were a few years ago, advisors are still in play for independent broker-dealers.  |
Registered Rep. October 29, 2009 Kristen French |
RJFS Raises RIA minimums, LPL Pulls Past RJ in RIA Assets Raymond James is raising minimums for new RIAs who want to custody assets on its RJFS-IAD platform from $30 million to $50 million.  |
Financial Advisor August 2007 Tracey Longo |
A World For Advisors Broker-dealers across the country are reporting record revenue increases -- a significant portion of these from fee-based business -- and say they're continuing to step up their game in order to recruit advisors with significant practices.  |
Investment Advisor November 2007 Lauren Barack |
Give Them What They Want Understanding they can't offer every tool to every advisor, custodians are nevertheless making sure to remain flexible enough to meet advisors' ever changing demands.  |
Financial Advisor April 2005 Tracey Longo |
How Boomers Will Change Your Firm What will your financial advisory firm look like in 2015? With about 75 million baby boomers retiring, different than than it does now.  |
Registered Rep. June 1, 2005 Kristen French |
Fido Attacks! Long a distant second to Charles Schwab in the lucrative business of serving financial advisors, Fidelity is making an aggressive push to close that gap. And some advisors are taking notice.  |
Financial Advisor November 2006 Tracey Longo |
Conference Roundup Meeting the demands of baby boomer clients led content at the 8th Annual Financial Advisor Symposium.  |
Financial Planning June 1, 2013 Ann Marsh |
FP50: Big IBDs Hit a Speed Bump Is the boom over? After years of double-digit growth, independent broker-dealers hit a rough patch in 2012. We report from the front lines of the FP50.  |
Financial Advisor March 2012 Bernie Clark |
The Changing Affluent Investor Advisors must prepare for new affluent clients and the changes, attitudes and expectations they will bring with them.  |
Financial Advisor August 2006 Tracey Longo |
Late Summer Recruiting While the recruiting party will get tougher some day for broker-dealers who cater to independent advisors and reps, for now they are enjoying their competitive advantage: They give brokers and advisors who want to own their own business the chance to do that.  |
Financial Advisor November 2008 |
Frontline News News for the Financial Industry: Tumult Could Expand Ranks Of RIAs... M&A Activity Remains Healthy... Independent B-Ds: Don't Tread On Us... Who Has The Most Satisfied Advisors?... The Business Of Serving Business Owners... etc.  |
Financial Advisor June 2005 Bruce W. Fraser |
The Rush To Dynasty Trusts It remains to be seen whether dynasty trusts will endure. Meantime, they remain a viable way for the wealthy to shield assets over generations, and for financial advisors they can be a lucrative source of fee income.  |
Financial Advisor June 2007 Sherri Scordo |
Financial Advisor's 2007 Broker-Dealer Guide Top independent broker-dealers ranked by gross revenue: LPL... AIG Advisors Group... ING Advisors Network... etc.  |
Financial Advisor June 2008 Tracey Longo |
Swimming Upstream California investment advisor John Threlkeld has been working diligently to serve wealthier and wealthier investors, even purchasing two other advisors' practices and turning all but his top clients over to a junior planner.  |
Financial Advisor August 2006 Raymond Fazzi |
Custodians Duel Over New Services Competition in the fee-based advisory field and the pressure to grow assets and operations is not only forcing changes upon advisors, but also the custodians who serve them.  |
Financial Planning January 1, 2010 Stacy Schultz |
Making a Statement When Raymond James bumped up its minimums in November, it positioned itself for a new standard, but could bad timing hinder its strategy?  |
Financial Advisor January 2005 Tracey Longo |
How Fee-Based Programs Led 2004 Brokerage Profits Fee-based profitability is not lost on brokerage executives, who are ramping up programs designed to attract more planners to a fee-based business model and away from traditional commissions.  |
Financial Advisor May 2006 Tracey Longo |
What Have You Done For Me Lately? The race is on among independent broker-dealers to recruit more top fee-based advisors.  |
Financial Planning May 1, 2007 Elizabeth O'brien |
Snagging Breakaways Schwab Institutional and Cambridge Investment Research have joined forces to attract financial advisors turning independent. But just how big is the prize?  |
Financial Advisor January 2006 Sydney LeBlanc |
Embracing The F Word US Fiduciary offers a business model that is attracting ultra-high-end advisors who want to be fiduciaries.  |
Financial Advisor October 2005 Sydney LeBlanc |
The Billion-Dollar Equation Skill, service, plus separate accounts are key for advisors managing a billion dollars.  |
Financial Advisor December 2011 Eric Rasmussen |
Free-Range Advisors Custodians to independent advisors are in an arms race to give bigger, better software and practice management packages.  |
Financial Advisor July 2004 Tracey Longo |
Clearing Firms Come Courting With clearing industry players so clearly targeting advisors, competition for advisor business is likely to get even more interesting very soon.  |
Financial Planning August 1, 2010 Joel P. Bruckenstein |
Waiting for "Intelligent Integration" This spring, Schwab Advisor Services announced the launch of "Project C"-an ambitious technology initiative designed to deliver high-quality, integrated solutions to advisors.  |
Financial Planning November 1, 2009 Paul Menchaca |
LPL: "We've Arrived" Twenty years after the San Diego-based company was formed through the merger of Linsco and Private Ledger, LPL appears to have lapped its rivals, leaving nothing in its rearview mirror.  |