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Registered Rep.
October 24, 2007
Halah Touryalai
The New New RIA Model: Sharing Back Offices The barriers to going independent are shrinking. Don't believe it? Check out Mraz, Amerine & Hirschler & Associates, a firm launched by three wirehouse advisors who left Morgan Stanley earlier this month with $400 million in client assets. mark for My Articles similar articles
Financial Planning
May 1, 2011
Donna Mitchell
Hybrid's New Groove Registered investment advisor firms looking for ways to expand their businesses might try turning to broker-dealers for a boost. mark for My Articles similar articles
Registered Rep.
November 1, 2005
Christopher O'Leary
Going All the Way Across the country, registered rep employees of national broker/dealers daydream of chucking it all and going off on their own. But how far do you go? Which is the best model for keeping the most of what your business generates? mark for My Articles similar articles
Registered Rep.
November 1, 2005
Christopher O'Leary
Creating an Escape Plan Independence has long been a dream of many wirehouse reps. But for the great majority of wirehouse pros, it remains simply that. Going independent is a proposition fraught with peril and is not to be taken lightly. mark for My Articles similar articles
Financial Advisor
January 2008
Bruce W. Fraser
Growing Up Over the next five years, the typical RIA will undergo rapid transformation, and the average RIA firm is expected to at least triple in size. To accommodate such growth, hiring decisions will become critical, stretching far beyond the traditional tendency of firms to simply add more advisors. mark for My Articles similar articles
Registered Rep.
July 7, 2010
David A. Geracioti
Compensation 2010. Crisis? What Crisis? 2009 income for RIAs -- while lower than 2008, in some cases by a lot -- rebounded fairly nicely, bringing earnings back to 2007 levels. mark for My Articles similar articles
Registered Rep.
November 1, 2006
Kevin Burke
Money Managers Don't Get RIA Market A large number of money managers still haven't figured out how to tap the registered investment advisor market to sell their funds, according to research. mark for My Articles similar articles
Registered Rep.
September 22, 2008
John Churchill
Wall Street's Pain Is RIAs' Gain: Reps Flee Wirehouses, Bring Assets to Fido And Others Despite the still-outsized signing bonuses offered by most Wall Street firms, the steady trickle of brokers leaving wirehouse firms to join or form their own RIA firms is growing. mark for My Articles similar articles
Registered Rep.
February 23, 2010
Halah Touryalai
Clients, The New Breakaways First, there was the breakaway broker phenomenon; now, it seems, we have a growing vogue of breakaway clients -- former wirehouse investors who ditch their old advisors for new ones at independent RIAs or broker/dealers. mark for My Articles similar articles
Registered Rep.
September 1, 2005
Kevin Burke
RIAs and Their Fat Payouts Registered investment advisors continue to take home fatter paychecks than their counterparts at regionals and wirehouses, even after factoring in the RIAs' higher overhead. mark for My Articles similar articles
Registered Rep.
March 1, 2008
Christina Mucciolo
What Can We Do For You? Clearing firms matter to advisors. In fact, one of the biggest deals in the independent b/d business last year hinged on whether the b/ds being sold could maintain their relationships with their old clearing firm. mark for My Articles similar articles
Registered Rep.
April 23, 2010
Halah Touryalai
Compensation Key To Breakaway Recruiting Pitch RIA principals and consultants discuss strategies for wooing and hiring advisors from various different kinds of firms. mark for My Articles similar articles
Financial Planning
July 1, 2009
Paul Menchaca
Soft Landing Most Wall Street refugees are taking measured steps toward independence by joining an independent broker/dealer, rather than launching a registered investment advisory practice on their own. mark for My Articles similar articles
Investment Advisor
July 2010
Lewis Schiff
Succession Planning: Buying and Selling Wealth Management Practices 2010 could be the biggest year ever for mergers and acquisitions in the financial advisory industry, but the players and strategies are different than they were prior to the market turndown. mark for My Articles similar articles
Registered Rep.
May 5, 2008
LPL Financial Heats Up The RIA World The largest independent broker/dealer in the U.S. announced today it's going to launch an RIA custodian later this year, which will serve both hybrid and fee-only investment advisors who operate independent RIAs. mark for My Articles similar articles
Registered Rep.
February 1, 2005
Pam Black
Why More Reps Are Getting Their Kicks on Route 66 What's driving top reps to Series 66 RIA designation is not regulatory rules. It's changes in the wirehouse environment that, newly minted RIAs say, made it harder for them to do their own thing. mark for My Articles similar articles
Financial Advisor
July 2009
Eric Rasmussen
Surviving The Storm Account sizes, staff and profits have shrunk, but far more firms gained clients than lost them. mark for My Articles similar articles
Investment Advisor
August 2008
Elizabeth D. Festa
Springtime for Brokers Custodians and independent B/Ds roll out the carpet. mark for My Articles similar articles
Registered Rep.
November 21, 2012
Jerry Gleeson
Why Wirehouse FAs Pass on the RIA Path Independence is appealing to a growing number of wirehouse advisors, but the RIA route clearly has some challenges for most of them. mark for My Articles similar articles
Registered Rep.
May 13, 2009
Christina Mucciolo
Wall Street Squeezes Small Brokers, Many Go Independent In this brutal market, many advisors are taking payout cuts or being let go. But many of these advisors are finding homes at independent and regional b/ds and RIA firms. mark for My Articles similar articles
Registered Rep.
December 1, 2006
Anne Field
The Metamorphosis If you are ready to go out on your own as a registered investment advisor, you're likely to encounter a host of tricky problems and stumbling blocks. Here's a look at five of those problems and what you can do about them. 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.
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
Registered Rep.
March 12, 2010
Mindy Diamond
Break Back Brokers Over the last six months, an interesting reverse shift is occurring: the RIA or independent b/d advisor who wants to return to (or go to for the first time) a wirehouse firm. mark for My Articles similar articles
Registered Rep.
March 1, 2006
Kristen French
The Best of Both Worlds Advisors say the broker/dealer-RIA hybrid model gives them freedom to choose what products, services and fees are best for their clients. mark for My Articles similar articles
Registered Rep.
January 1, 2006
Kristen French
A Level Playing Field High-profit ensembles and solos are the top-performing 25% of financial advisory firms. Other ensembles and solos would lose money if they paid their owners a market level salary. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
Registered Rep.
November 4, 2011
Kristen French
Indie Exodus: Overhyped? In 2009, in the wake of arguably one of the biggest financial crises this country has seen since the Great Depression, over 3,000 financial advisors left Merrill Lynch, UBS, Morgan Stanley and Wells Fargo to start life over at an independent broker/dealer or RIA firm. mark for My Articles similar articles
Financial Advisor
July 2012
Bernie Clark
The RIA Universe Advisors should look not just at their own internal business practices but also at the changes and trends occurring across the RIA field. mark for My Articles similar articles
Registered Rep.
October 1, 2005
John Kador
Schwab Does It Again Charles Schwab, the pioneering discount broker who was slammed by the tech wreck and suffered through protracted management struggles in the past two years, is beating the wirehouses at their own game. mark for My Articles similar articles
Registered Rep.
April 2, 2012
Diana Britton
Concert Breaks Into the Hybrid Market Via LPL Partnership RIA aggregator Concert Advisor Services has launched a new hybrid platform, Concert Advisors, and partnered with independent broker/dealer LPL Financial to provide brokerage and custody services. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
Registered Rep.
February 16, 2010
Mindy Diamond
Recruiting Bonuses Are Still Strong TD Ameritrade, Schwab, Fidelity and Pershing are all reporting that their pipelines of interested advisors is more robust than ever in their collective histories. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
Financial Advisor
July 2011
Bernie Clark
A Record Year For RIAs Discipline both on the expense and client care sides has created sound business practices for an evolving RIA industry. mark for My Articles similar articles
Registered Rep.
August 18, 2011
Jerry Gleeson
Market Turmoil Could Slow Advisor M&A Two industry experts expect merger and acquisition activity involving registered investment advisors will drop this year if the current volatility in the stock market stretches into the coming months. mark for My Articles similar articles
Financial Advisor
January 2006
Raymond Fazzi
Declaration Of Independence More financial planners are leaving wirehouses to become fee-based RIAs. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
Registered Rep.
October 15, 2010
Jerry Gleeson
Fewer, But Bigger Breakaway Brokers Joining RIAs With markets stabilizing and bank-brokerage merger integrations progressing, fewer brokers are fleeing the big Wall Street wirehouse firms for the RIAs and independent b/ds in 2010. mark for My Articles similar articles
Registered Rep.
July 5, 2011
Jerry Gleeson
Schwab Finds RIAs Posted Record 2010 Revenue, AUM Average profits surged 45 percent last year among registered investment advisors surveyed, but don't look for a repeat of this year. mark for My Articles similar articles
Registered Rep.
June 2, 2011
Diana Britton
America's Top Independent Brokerages The Merrills and Morgan Stanleys of the world say it was never an exodus, the migration is over, and it was only those advisors who couldn't make it in the cutthroat wirehouse world who crossed over to the independent side of the business. mark for My Articles similar articles
Registered Rep.
December 13, 2010
Susan Konig
IBD and RIA Opportunities Arise For Branch Managers As the independent broker/dealer and RIA channels grow, they are creating a viable market for those displaced managers. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
Investment Advisor
November 18, 2010
Bob Clark
After the Flood How will independent advisors deal with the rising tide of breakaway brokers? mark for My Articles similar articles
Registered Rep.
July 8, 2015
Jerry Gleeson
No Slowing RIA Growth In the financial advisory industry there are potential regulatory burdens, fickle investors, and crafty competitors -- but nothing has changed the relentless march of the registered investment advisor space since the 2008 crash. mark for My Articles similar articles
Investment Advisor
September 2009
Melanie Waddell
Not So Fast Cerulli Associates data suggests there may be fewer wirehouse brokers breaking away. mark for My Articles similar articles
On Wall Street
July 1, 2010
Lauren Barack
Beating Back The Independents So a mere eighteen months after the sky fell, is it really possible that life at the wirehouses isn't so bad? mark for My Articles similar articles
Registered Rep.
April 15, 2010
Halah Touryalai
RIA M&A Deals Break Record in First Quarter Mergers and acquisitions seem to be crawling back to the top of RIA principals' to-do lists this year, as the first quarter's numbers show record activity. What is your practice worth? mark for My Articles similar articles
Investment Advisor
June 2006
Kathleen M. McBride
Stretched For broker/dealers who are already stressed, dually registered advisors are a challenge being met in varied ways. mark for My Articles similar articles
Investment Advisor
August 2005
Mark Tibergien
Formulas for Success: Independence Day There is a growing trend toward registered reps moving out of the wirehouse environment -- a trend invisible to most, but obvious to the country's leading custodians: they are actively wooing breakaway brokers. mark for My Articles similar articles