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Registered Rep. April 29, 2009 Halah Touryalai |
Wirehouse Advisors Switch Firms in March The number of reps switching broker/dealers during the month was up 34 percent versus the number who switched in February.  |
Registered Rep. September 11, 2009 Halah Touryalai |
Survey Says: Wall Street Advisors Going...Wait For It...Independent! Wall Street wirehouse firms are expected to see a net loss of $188 billion in client assets to other channels in the industry, including RIAs, independent broker/dealers and regional b/ds.  |
Registered Rep. April 20, 2009 Christina Mucciolo |
Benjamin Edwards Passes Away at 77 Edwards, 77, was the great-grandson of the company's founder, Albert Gallatin Edwards, and led the former regional for 45 years before retiring in 2001 and assuming the title of chairman emeritus.  |
Registered Rep. April 20, 2009 Christina Mucciolo |
A.G. Edwards Founder Passes Away at 77 Benjamin Edwards III, former chairman, CEO, and president A.G. Edwards, died Monday after a battle with cancer.  |
Registered Rep. July 14, 2009 Halah Touryalai |
Financial Advisor Switching Firms Jumps in June June was a busy month for financial advisors on the move. The number of advisors switching firms jumped 45 percent in June versus May, according to Discovery Database.  |
Registered Rep. June 9, 2009 Halah Touryalai |
Fewer Advisors Switch B/Ds in May The number of advisors switching firms dropped 23 percent in May versus April, according to Discovery Database.  |
Registered Rep. January 6, 2010 Halah Touryalai |
Wirehouse FAs Switching B/Ds Slows The number of wirehouse advisors switching broker/dealers has been in steep decline since June.  |
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.  |
Registered Rep. August 5, 2010 Jerry Gleeson |
Poll: Clients Love Breakaway Wirehouse Brokers Breakaway wirehouse advisors never walk alone. A new report by Aite Group on the independence movement shows that reps from the big houses demonstrate superior client retention when they leave their employers.  |
Registered Rep. December 16, 2009 Halah Touryalai |
Wirehouse Switching Slows in Second Half of 2009 In November, just 177 advisors in the wirehouse channel switched firms, the smallest monthly number all year, according to Discovery Database.  |
Registered Rep. August 29, 2012 Jerry Gleeson |
Devil Take the Hindmost The headlines in the media note that advisor headcount was down 2.3 percent overall in 2011. But it was the independent broker/dealer market that accounted for the biggest hit in the numbers.  |
Registered Rep. January 10, 2011 Susan Konig |
In Tough Year, Unearthing Opportunities For Branch Managers Shifts in the wealth management business could spell opportunity for those managers who are able to reinvent themselves.  |
Registered Rep. July 13, 2007 Susan Konig |
Post Acquisition, A.G. Edwards BOMs Have Tough Job to Do With the Wachovia purchase of A.G. Edwards, it's not just A.G. Edwards reps (some of whom fear that the AGE corporate culture will change) who are worried. So are acquired firm's branch managers.  |
Registered Rep. November 1, 2006 John Churchill |
A.G.E. to Catch a Rep Instead of buying brokers like its peers with offers of big upfront forgivable loans, A.G. Edwards is offering its own reps bonuses for successfully recruiting good reps.  |
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?  |
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.  |
Registered Rep. January 1, 2005 |
I'm A Broker, You're A Broker At most publicly traded national broker/dealers, about 35 percent of employees are called financial advisors.  |
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.  |
Registered Rep. March 6, 2014 Diana Britton |
Independent Channels Continue to Steal from Wirehouses RIA and dually registered advisory channels will grow their share of the advised assets to 26 percent by 2016, according to a report by Cerulli Associates. That growth will largely come at the expense of the wirehouse channel.  |
On Wall Street February 1, 2010 Lee Conrad |
Wells Fargo: On the Front Lines of the Culture Wars One of Wells Fargo's task after acquiring Wachovia Securities is integrating advisors from both companies into one sales force and keeping them satisfied.  |
Registered Rep. May 26, 2010 Jerry Gleeson |
Bonuses No Balm For Some Breakaway-Minded Brokers Paying retention bonuses to top brokers to keep them from jumping ship is a pricey strategy that only works some of the time, a report released today by Aite Group shows.  |
Registered Rep. May 31, 2007 Kevin Burke |
Wachovia Buys A.G. Edwards for $6.8 Billion, Creating New Rival to Merrill, Smith Barney The deal puts Wachovia among the top three competitors in retail brokerage -- in terms of both assets and advisors -- and retail banking.  |
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.  |
Registered Rep. September 29, 2008 |
Wachovia, The Bank, Saved by Citi; What Will Happen To Wachovia Securities? Firm Says The AGE Integration To Continue Unaffected Citigroup apparently thinks its got enough financial advisors: Citi declined to buy the retail brokerage business -- Wachovia Securities (and A.G. Edwards) -- and the asset management unit (Evergreen).  |
Financial Planning October 1, 2009 Conrad & Mitchell |
Indies' Gain Ground Registered investment advisor firms, independent broker-dealers and dually registered advisors are gaining market shares at the expense of wirehouses.  |
Financial Advisor March 2012 |
Wirehouses Still King Of The Hill Despite headlines about breakaway brokers and the ascendency of the independent, fee-based advisory model, the Big Four wirehouses are still holding their own.  |
Financial Advisor July 2012 Jeff Schlegel |
Benjamin F. Edwards & Co. Forges Own Path Not many four-year-old firms have a legacy stretching back to the Lincoln administration.  |
Registered Rep. June 28, 2007 Christina Mucciolo |
Wachovia Securities to Make New Home in St. Louis Federal Antitrust regulators approved Wachovia Corp.'s acquisition of A.G. Edwards. The deal is expected to close in the fourth quarter, most likely in October.  |
Registered Rep. December 2, 2014 |
Best of the Best 2014 Unlike many of our competitors, we are as transparent as possible about our criteria and methodology when publishing a ranking.  |
On Wall Street January 28, 2010 Lee Conrad |
Carrying on a Family Tradition Tad Edwards, son of retired A.G. Edwards CEO Ben Edwards, sets out on his own to recreate his family's financial advising firm.  |
Registered Rep. October 11, 2010 Susan Konig |
Advisor Movement Should Pick Up in 2011, Experts Predict Aggressive and lucrative recruitment packages essentially prompted anyone who wanted a big check to move last year, Diamond says.  |
Registered Rep. August 11, 2009 Kristen French |
Wirehouse to Wirehouse Switching Sinks Fewer and fewer financial advisors are leaving one wirehouse for another. Instead, they are heading to independent, regional and institutional firms.  |
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.  |
Investment Advisor September 2009 Melanie Waddell |
Not So Fast Cerulli Associates data suggests there may be fewer wirehouse brokers breaking away.  |
Registered Rep. June 15, 2007 Kevin Burke |
Wachovia Extends Olive Branch to A.G. Edwards Reps. Will They Accept? Just 15 days after it announced it was buying A.G. Edwards, Wachovia Securities announced its retention package for A.G. Edwards reps.  |
Registered Rep. November 15, 2010 Diana Britton |
How One Wealth Management Firm Intends To Grow Amid Competition At a time when recruitment activity in the independent broker/dealer channel has slowed, Capital Guardian Wealth Management, a hybrid firm, is undergoing a major growth initiative, with plans to add 15 advisors by year-end.  |
On Wall Street July 1, 2010 Frances A. McMorris |
The Burgeoning Battle For The Best And The Brightest What are the wirehouse behemoths doing to keep their advisors happy, attract others, and, in turn, maintain the bulk of high-net-worth client assets?  |
Registered Rep. September 30, 2013 Megan Leonhardt |
Wirehouse Evolution Far from a dying model, the big brokerages are changing their game.  |
Registered Rep. March 1, 2008 |
Independent Together The "RIA-in-a-box" model will attract plenty of wirehouse reps who may have previously balked at the idea of going completely independent, fearing they were unprepared to run their own businesses.  |
Registered Rep. September 1, 2010 Halah Touryalai |
Outgrowing the SERIES 7 There is a coveted cohort of dually registered advisors who are dropping their Series 7 licenses and leaving their b/ds behind.  |
Registered Rep. January 1, 2007 David A. Geracioti |
What Advisors Look Like Now Here are selected highlights from a reader survey selected from wirehouses, independent broker/dealers, RIAs, financial planners, bank brokers and insurance reps that offers a pulse from this demographic on business trends.  |
Registered Rep. May 2, 2007 Kevin Burke |
It's Not About the Money The firms that have the highest number of satisfied financial advisors aren't necessarily the ones with the highest-paid financial advisors. Industry experts say that what really drives advisors to jump is friction with a supervisor.  |
Registered Rep. October 8, 2015 Megan Leonhardt |
Breakaway Advisors Moving More to Existing RIAs More advisors are looking to leave the wirehouses and brokerages by joining an existing registered investment advisory firm, rather than starting their own.  |
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.  |
Registered Rep. September 24, 2013 Mindy Diamond |
Peeking Over the Fence Is the grass really greener -- and growing faster -- on the other side? Many advisors don't know how limited they are in their growth until they start exploring other options.  |
Registered Rep. May 18, 2009 John Churchill |
As Wells Fargo Takes Over, Integration at Wachovia and A.G. Edwards Still Faces Hurdles Some financial advisors at what is now the largest retail brokerage firm in the U.S. say the integration of the Wachovia and A.G. Edwards is still incomplete, and leaves much to be desired.  |
Financial Advisor June 2009 Jeff Schlegel |
Money In Motion The economic crisis has wreaked havoc on wirehouses, and more advisors are looking for new opportunities.  |
Registered Rep. June 5, 2012 Diana Britton |
A Regional Resurgence After years of being considered acquisition targets, regional broker/dealers may be making a comeback.  |
On Wall Street August 1, 2010 Aarti N. Maharaj |
The Wirehouse Way While the lure of independence has traditionally been viewed as the ultimate siren song for many advisors, many in the industry are finding good reasons to stay with the big companies. And it's not all about the money.  |
Registered Rep. April 18, 2012 Diana Britton |
Tiburon's Roame: Less of a Breakaway Trend, More of a `Broken-Away' Trend Whether you agree with him or not, Chip Roame, managing principal of Tiburon Strategic Advisors, is not afraid to tell you exactly how he sees it when it comes to the financial services industry.  |