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October 24, 2007
John Churchill
Merrill Earnings Ugly, But Brokerage Is The Sweet Spot Stan O'Neal opened Merrill Lynch's earnings call by not beating around the bush: The firm had a net loss of $2.3 billion, due largely in part from $7.9 billion in write-downs related to exposure to sub-prime mortgages and collateralized debt obligations. mark for My Articles similar articles
Registered Rep.
July 18, 2007
Kevin Burke
Merrill Reports Strong Revenues, Adds 270 Advisors Merrill Lynch's retail brokerage arm turns in another strong quarter, as fee-based revenue continued to climb to record levels. mark for My Articles similar articles
Registered Rep.
October 17, 2008
Merrill Posts $5.2 Billion Loss, Fifth In A Row Merrill Lynch reports its fifth straight quarterly loss, including a whopping $13.5 billion in mortgage-related asset write-downs, bringing the firm's sub-prime related losses/write-downs total to more than $65 billion. mark for My Articles similar articles
Registered Rep.
March 16, 2012
Kristen French
Due Diligence: Merrill Cost-Cutting Centers on Client Segmentation, Less Bureacracy Merrill Lynch financial advisors can expect Bank of America cost-cutting to take the form of greater client segmentation and reduced bureaucracy, said John Thiel of Merrill Lynch mark for My Articles similar articles
Registered Rep.
April 16, 2010
Jerry Gleeson
Merrill Advisor Defections Flat In Q1, Profit Falls Profits were down last quarter at Merrill Lynch but the brokerage's performance still helped to lift the fortunes of its new parent, Bank of America Corp. mark for My Articles similar articles
Registered Rep.
April 13, 2004
David A. Gaffen
Merrill Reports Record Quarter Merrill Lynch reported earnings of $1.3 billion for the first quarter of 2004, a 95 percent increase from the same period a year ago. mark for My Articles similar articles
Registered Rep.
June 1, 2010
John Aidan Byrne
Bank of America Ramps Up Online Brokerage Bank of America is making a push into electronic brokerage services, a menu that includes free online trading and a new platform called Merrill Edge, set to debut in late June. Some say the new services will steal business from Merrill advisors. mark for My Articles similar articles
Registered Rep.
August 26, 2010
John Aidan Byrne
Neck And Neck, Morgan and Merrill On Hiring Sprees Both firms say they plan to add net financial advisors in 2010, adding to stated plans to sign up 2,000 trainees each this year. 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.
February 16, 2012
Kristen French
Due Diligence: LaMothe Takes Swipe at BofA, Does 180 on Value of Bank-Brokerage Tie Ups Lyle LaMothe, former head of retail brokerage Merrill Lynch, claims that Merrill advisors are leaving the firm because they are being pushed to sell the whole bank instead of focus on wealth management and what's best for their clients. mark for My Articles similar articles
Registered Rep.
April 27, 2011
Jerry Gleeson
Merrill Lynch Names Thiel to Run U.S. Brokerage Thiel, 50, will replace Lyle LaMothe. LaMothe, also 50, said on March 4 that he would retire as head of Merrill Lynch U.S. Wealth Management. mark for My Articles similar articles
Registered Rep.
November 6, 2008
Bank Of America To Sign Protocol, Herd Still Weighing Options Bank of America intends to sign the so-called "broker protocol," an agreement signed by most of the brokerage firms and RIAs stipulating what client information is acceptable for a departing financial advisor to take without getting sued by the former employer. But when? mark for My Articles similar articles
Registered Rep.
July 19, 2011
Kristen French
Bank of America Gains 500 Financial Advisors, Client Balances Slip in Q2 It was an ugly quarter for Bank of America, which reported an $8.8 billion loss in the second quarter. mark for My Articles similar articles
Registered Rep.
June 11, 2008
Thain + You, Sittin' in A Tree Merrill Lynch CEO John Thain heaps praise upon the wealth management division during an interview. mark for My Articles similar articles
Registered Rep.
August 4, 2009
French & Churchill
Dan Sontag Departs Merrill Lynch Much beloved by Merrill financial advisors, Dan Sontag is stepping down as head of Merrill Lynch Global Wealth Management. mark for My Articles similar articles
Registered Rep.
January 22, 2009
Thain Departs BofA--An $87,000 Rug? Say It Ain't So, John! Client AUMs Fall By 30 Percent In 2008 John Thain, former CEO of Merrill Lynch and the man who engineered the sales of the storied Wall Street firm to Bank of America in September, is leaving the combined firm immediately. mark for My Articles similar articles
Registered Rep.
October 30, 2003
Merrill CEO: We're Hiring Stan O'Neal, chairman and chief executive officer of Merrill Lynch, says the company is accelerating its hiring of financial advisors. mark for My Articles similar articles
Registered Rep.
April 15, 2009
Kristen French
Bank of America Launches Client Referral Program It's one of several referral programs the bank is putting together as part of its integration with Merrill Lynch, including one that would offer leads from the commercial banking division to certain Merrill Lynch advisors. mark for My Articles similar articles
Registered Rep.
January 1, 2003
David A. Gaffen
Merrill Takes it To the Bank One of Merrill Lynch's major initiatives in the coming year will be to continue to attract clients to the firm's expanded banking service, known as Beyond Banking. mark for My Articles similar articles
Registered Rep.
October 28, 2015
Merrill Lynch: A Simple and Streamlined Approach Merrill Lynch designed Merrill Lynch One, a multi-year, $100 million project that brought together five disparate money management platforms, each with their own fee structure, enrollment process and website. mark for My Articles similar articles
Registered Rep.
October 18, 2011
Kristen French
BofA Posts Pop in Q3 Profit, Higher Wealth Management Asset Fees, Net Gain of 475 FAs Bank of America's earnings shot up to $6.2 billion in the third quarter, versus a net loss of $7.3 billion in the year ago period. mark for My Articles similar articles
Registered Rep.
July 18, 2008
Woo-hoo! Citigroup Only Loses $2.5 billion In 2Q; Client Assets Flee Smith Barney Citigroup reported its second quarter earnings today, beating analyst expectations by losing far less money than anticipated. mark for My Articles similar articles
Registered Rep.
October 2, 2008
Thain Gets a Job at Bank of America Merrill Lynch CEO John Thain has accepted an offer to be president of Global Banking, Securities and Wealth Management at Bank of America. 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.
May 14, 2010
John Aidan Byrne
Bank of America Still Ramping Up Merrill Branding Though it recently wrapped up a national advertising campaign for Merrill Lynch, Bank of America continues to ramp up branding of the division, with an extension of the Merrill New York Yankees sponsorship and other activities. mark for My Articles similar articles
Bank Technology News
March 2011
John Adams
Self Service With An Edge When it comes to attracting wealth management clients, the new focus is entirely on control - specifically giving control to customers via electronic channels. 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.
June 4, 2009
John Churchill
Merrill Lynch's Dan Sontag Out? Salaried Merrill Brokers? Not so Fast According to a story posted yesterday on Clusterstock.com, a financial blog, Dan Sontag, head of Merrill Lynch's global wealth and investment management unit, is about to be pink-slipped. mark for My Articles similar articles
Registered Rep.
January 4, 2008
Merrill Slashes Trading Jobs Merrill Lynch began a round of layoffs this morning. mark for My Articles similar articles
Registered Rep.
July 17, 2008
Merrill Posts Huge 2nd Quarter Loss; Retail Less Bad Than Principal Trading and Investment Banking Merrill Lynch provided a damper to the financial sector rally that has occurred over the past two days. mark for My Articles similar articles
Registered Rep.
January 6, 2009
Sontag Takes McCann's Job At Merrill More shocking to Merrill Lynch advisors than the sudden departure of their leader is the disappearance of the "MER" logo from their computer screens. mark for My Articles similar articles
On Wall Street
April 1, 2010
Howard J. Stock
Back Office Move Has Advisors Up In Arms -- Some Bolt Questions surround what will happen to BAI clients when Merrill moves their accounts from National Financial to Merrill Lynch. mark for My Articles similar articles
Registered Rep.
November 30, 2010
John Aidan Byrne
Report: Merrill Edge Threatens Online and Regional Brokers, Not Its Own FAs A new report by research firm Aite Group this week, sees Bank of America Merrill Lynch's recently expanded online brokerage business -- as a serious challenge to the online business of powerhouses such as Charles Schwab and Fidelity Investments. 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.
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.
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.
September 14, 2006
Kevin Burke
Merrill Opens More Boutique Branches For Ultra Wealthy; Now Recruiting Private Bankers The focus of the private banking unit is built on the premise that ultra-high-net-worth clients have different needs than those of the slightly less affluent. mark for My Articles similar articles
Investment Advisor
November 2009
Kathleen M. McBride
Merrill's Big Plans The importance of culture at the organization is what Sallie Krawcheck spoke of at her first press conference as president of Global Wealth Management & Investment Management at Bank of America Merrill Lynch. mark for My Articles similar articles
Registered Rep.
January 24, 2011
Jerry Gleeson
BofA/Merrill Pricing Plan To Advance Cross-Selling Merrill Edge, the discount investment brokerage that Merrill Lynch rolled out last year, is playing its part in parent company Bank of America's effort to cross-sell consumer banking and investment services. mark for My Articles similar articles
Registered Rep.
October 31, 2007
John Churchill
UBS Earnings Bomb Swiss banking giant UBS joined Merrill Lynch at the bottom of the credit related write-down pile with the release of its earnings. 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
Registered Rep.
March 1, 2005
John Churchill
Earnings Forecast: Clouds Give Way to Sun The past year's earnings troubles belie the brokerage industry's sunny prospects for 2005. For advisors, the industry's recent troubles have translated into fewer jobs, but many firms are recruiting aggressively again. mark for My Articles similar articles
Registered Rep.
January 28, 2009
Merrill Cuts Trainees Let the penny pinching commence! Merrill Lynch's training program took a hit yesterday as many of its trainees were shown the door. mark for My Articles similar articles
Registered Rep.
November 9, 2009
Kristen French
BofA Pressures Merrill FAs To Sell Bank Products Some of Merrill Lynch's 15,000 financial advisors are feeling pressure to sell parent company Bank of America's checking and savings account products -- and they're not happy about it. mark for My Articles similar articles
Registered Rep.
October 5, 2009
Kristen French
Merrill Launches Branding Campaign; Recruiting Net Positive The new campaign Monday will cost the firm $20 million in the fourth quarter, the most Merrill has ever spent on marketing. mark for My Articles similar articles
Registered Rep.
January 16, 2009
Citi's Global Wealth Mgt Unit: Retail Clients Flee; Merrill Drags Down Everybody knows that Citigroup announced yesterday it was putting itself out of its misery. The failing bank had a whopping $8.29 billion fourth-quarter loss, capping off a horrific year. mark for My Articles similar articles
Registered Rep.
July 26, 2011
John Aidan Byrne
Online Brokerages Still Grabbing Market Share From Wirehouses Online brokerages continue to take market share from the wirehouses, according to a new report. mark for My Articles similar articles
Registered Rep.
June 1, 2005
60 Seconds with Bob McCann The Vice Chairman of Merrill Lynch's Wealth Management Group talks about the brokerage giant's hiring plans and other current initiatives. mark for My Articles similar articles
Registered Rep.
February 10, 2009
In First Media Interview, McCann Says Resignation Was At A "Logical Time" In his first interview since leaving Merrill Lynch, Robert J. McCann says he maintains good feelings for both Merrill Lynch and the timing of his departure. mark for My Articles similar articles
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April 21, 2011
Kristen French
Morgan Stanley Wealth Management Assets Up, Headcount and Margins Down Morgan's other two divisions -- institutional securities and asset management -- recorded declines in income and revenues. mark for My Articles similar articles