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Registered Rep.
April 1, 2010
Halah Touryalai
Citi's Covert Makeover It's a major shift in business for an entire unit to leap in the fee-only RIA world. mark for My Articles similar articles
Financial Planning
November 1, 2009
Menchaca & Schultz
Citi Limits? Citi Personal Wealth Management's plan to build a fee-only investment advisory business, announced on Oct. 5, is a bold move into the RIA space. mark for My Articles similar articles
Financial Planning
December 1, 2008
Brooke Southall
RIA Power Registered investment advisory firms are bringing in more assets these days than are wirehouse brokerage firms. mark for My Articles similar articles
Registered Rep.
October 5, 2009
Kristen French
Citi Bank Brokerage Converts To All Fees Citigroup announced that it would convert its small North American bank brokerage business completely to a fee-on-assets-based fiduciary advice system, and would stop collecting commissions on stock and fund sales. mark for My Articles similar articles
Registered Rep.
February 14, 2011
Jerry Gleeson
Citi's McWhinney Moves to Non-Advisor Unit Deborah McWhinney, president of personal banking and wealth management, will take over a newly-created position as head of global digital merchant acquiring. 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.
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
Financial Advisor
November 2009
Frontline News Advisor News: Poll on advisor pay... Citi Embracing Fee-Only Model... RIAs Set Record For Repurchasing Their Firms... FINRA Expands Arbitration Pilot Program... SEC Expects To Examine 9% Of RIAs Annually... more... 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
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
Investment Advisor
December 2005
Melanie Waddell
Breaking Away Brokers are finding it easier than ever to go independent, aided by custodians and other independent advisors. mark for My Articles similar articles
Registered Rep.
October 15, 2009
Christina Mucciolo
Schwab Q3 Earning Down, But the Race For RIA Assets Is Hot Charles Schwab reported a 34 percent drop in its third quarter earnings, the firm's third consecutive quarter of slowing earnings this year. 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.
January 9, 2009
Citi: What Sandy Built, Pandit Will Dismantle? The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Citigroup has put Smith Barney up for sale -- or a joint venture. mark for My Articles similar articles
Investment Advisor
November 2006
James J. Green
Good Time to Be an RIA If Deborah McWhinney should ever want to change jobs, she could easily become the RIA community's designated cheerleader. 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
Investment Advisor
January 2009
James J. Green
Schwab Reorganizes; Fidelity Hires; Pershing Provides The three major custodians of RIA assets announce big executive changes and a new practice management program. 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
Financial Planning
September 1, 2011
Donna Mitchell
Happy Mediums Online brokerage giants are taking market share from almost every segment of the financial advisory business - except for RIAs. mark for My Articles similar articles
Investment Advisor
March 2010
Robert F. Keane
Changes at the Top for RIA Units at Fidelity and Schwab At a time when growth in the RIA channel has been robust to say the least, the two largest custodians have announced executive changes and restructuring of their units serving RIAs. mark for My Articles similar articles
Registered Rep.
October 15, 2010
Charles Paikert
Schwab's Advisor Services Results Beg the Question: Has the Breakaway Brokerage Phenomenon Peaked? Has the great diaspora of breakaway brokers to Independence Land -- either independent b/ds or RIAs -- climaxed? 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.
April 1, 2007
John Churchill
Can Schwab's RIA Empire be Toppled? Last year the online-broker-turned-advice-provider extended an already massive lead over rivals Fidelity and TD Ameritrade in RIA asset gathering. Is there no challenger to Schwab's throne? mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
Registered Rep.
April 1, 2008
John Churchill
Good Times, Bad Times Shares of the major broker/dealers are getting hammered. The good news is, for those of you who have always wanted to move on, but couldn't because it made you sick to leave unvested options on the table, this may be your moment. mark for My Articles similar articles
Financial Advisor
September 2008
Mary Rowland
The Great Escape One way brokers are escaping is by forming teams, while they are still at the wirehouses, to provide the base for a ready-made independent business. mark for My Articles similar articles
Registered Rep.
June 29, 2009
Halah Touryalai
Schwab Cuts Some Fees for 2009 In an effort to ease the financial pain of its registered investment advisors, Charles Schwab has announced a series of initiatives that will save them money. mark for My Articles similar articles
Registered Rep.
February 2, 2010
Kristen French
Fidelity Makes Trade Pricing Uniform For RIA And Retail Clients Fidelity's RIA custody division, Institutional Wealth Services, said it was cutting fees for U.S. equity and options trades. It also began offering commission-free online trades for its iShares ETFs and Fidelity Nasdaq Composite Index Tracking Fund. mark for My Articles similar articles
Registered Rep.
November 25, 2008
Fido Poaches Schwab RIA Executive Fidelity Investments negotiates a contract with the former head of Schwab's advisor business. 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.
March 8, 2012
Kristen French
Direct Investment Sites Are Stealing Even More of Your Business There will always be clients who want a local advisor who doesn't work for a big firm, or someone they can golf with. The E-Trade baby may be cute, but it's unlikely he'll keep a tee time with you. mark for My Articles similar articles
Registered Rep.
March 2, 2015
Diana Britton
Crowded Out Some level of competition between advisors and custodians has been around for years. Still, some advisors feel recent events make the distinction between business partner and market competitor less clear. mark for My Articles similar articles
Investment Advisor
May 2006
Murphy & Green
Breaking Away As the number of breakaway brokers continues to rise, broker/dealers and custodians have implemented programs designed to make the broker's transition to independence as seamless as possible. 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
Registered Rep.
September 22, 2008
John Churchill
Sallie Krawcheck Out at Smith Barney Sallie Krawcheck, CEO of Citi's global wealth management division, and once considered a potential successor to the CEO role, is leaving the firm. mark for My Articles similar articles
Registered Rep.
November 1, 2004
Schwab's Bright Spot An interview with Deborah McWhinney, unit head of Schwab Institutional, which provides back-office and technological support for more than 5,000 advisors. Since coming from Bank of America, she has watched its assets exceed the $300 billion mark. 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
Investment Advisor
August 2009
James J. Green
Schwab Cuts Costs for Its Advisors Charles Schwab Advisor Services announced a series of moves that will have the net effect of reducing costs to the RIAs that custody with Schwab. mark for My Articles similar articles
Investment Advisor
October 2009
James J. Green
More on Migration Cerulli Associates estimates that $800 billion will be moving as advisors change firms. mark for My Articles similar articles
Registered Rep.
June 1, 2009
David Geracioti
Can You Say, "Morgan Stanley Smith Barney?" The Joint Venture Launches Today The deal merging Citi's brokerage (Smith Barney) with Morgan Stanley's Global Wealth Management Group is closed -- ahead of schedule. mark for My Articles similar articles
Financial Advisor
February 2004
Sydney LeBlanc
Stature, Service, Size, Simplicity Schwab, Fidelity and Waterhouse are building sophisticated SMA (separately managed account) platforms. mark for My Articles similar articles
The Motley Fool
September 18, 2009
Morgan Housel
Citigroup Hates Its Profitable Assets With Smith Barney divested, shareholders may wonder where profits will come from. mark for My Articles similar articles
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
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
November 2008
Raymond Fazzi
Disclose, Baby, Disclose Firms such as Schwab, Fidelity, LPL and Raymond James have made no secret of their desire to take advantage of the distress on Wall Street by luring top producers from Merrill Lynch and other troubled wirehouses. mark for My Articles similar articles
Registered Rep.
November 18, 2008
Brooke Southall
Schwab Re-Org Combines RIAs With Retirement Biz Schwab Institutional had an awesome year in 2008, but it isn't resting on it's laurels. Schwab is reorganizing, removing a well-respected executive, and combining the RIA unit with the retirement and corporate services unit. 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
Financial Advisor
December 2006
Evan Simonoff
Challenging Conventional Wisdom The independent advisory market is changing, perhaps in some surprising ways. mark for My Articles similar articles
Investment Advisor
February 2007
James J. Green
Schwab to Bankroll Breakaway Brokers With advisor assets at $500 billion, the custodian will offer financing to big brokers going independent. mark for My Articles similar articles
Registered Rep.
January 12, 2009
Halah Touryalai
Citi Grabs a Lifeline, Morgan Stages a Coup Despite a $45 billion capital injection from the government in 2008, Citi is in dire enough need of capital that it is planning to spin off its retail brokerage operation, Smith Barney, according to reports, in a joint venture with cross-town rival Morgan Stanley mark for My Articles similar articles