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Investment Advisor
November 2009
James J. Green
B/D Briefing: Citi Brokers Switch to Fees Citi Personal Wealth Management announces that the brokers who operate in Citibank branches will change their compensation models immediately from commissions to fees. 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
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 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
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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
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
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
December 2006
Evan Simonoff
Challenging Conventional Wisdom The independent advisory market is changing, perhaps in some surprising ways. mark for My Articles similar articles
Registered Rep.
May 1, 2007
The Great Reckoning Whatever the specific business impact the Merrill Lynch ruling may have, many see the return to pre-1999 rules as a chance for the brokerage industry, which has long avoided fiduciary duty for business and regulatory reasons, to overcome those obstacles and embrace it. mark for My Articles similar articles
Registered Rep.
July 29, 2013
Diana Britton
No Man Is an Island Independent broker/dealers are dressing up their offerings to attract and retain advisors tempted to start their own RIAs. 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
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 9, 2009
Churchill & French
Smith Barney Loses Top Executive, CFO Program To Be Rebranded After just 7 months on the job, Chris di Bonaventura, head of the Citi Family Office group, handed in his resignation. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. 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
Registered Rep.
August 1, 2006
Kristen French
The Way We'll Be While it's clear how the financial services industry got here, it's not so easy to predict where we're going. Here's a look at three major forces that will likely shape the industry over the next five to 20 years: The Age of Retirement... The Margin Squeeze... RIA Revolution... 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.
March 16, 2012
Kristen French
Wire Houses Minting Fiduciary Advisors -- Or Are They? None of the firms will go on record as to whom specifically in the rank and file is adopting the standard, nor will they provide much detail on what that training looks like. mark for My Articles similar articles
Registered Rep.
March 5, 2010
Kristen French
Washington Not Swayed By Mainstream Media On Fiduciary Standard. What About Clients? Will all the media attention influence brokerage clients? Many have already been migrating to investment advisers who act as fiduciaries on the RIA side of the business. 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.
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
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.
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.
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
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
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.
January 7, 2011
Kristen French
Will the SEC Curtail Recruiting Bonuses? With brokerage revenues getting squeezed and regulators sniffing around compensation issues and potential conflicts of interest, it's possible that 2011 could bring some changes to broker comp plans. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
Financial Planning
September 1, 2008
Callahan & Malo
Hybrid Chic A trend toward hybrids in the financial services industry is emerging. Increasingly, firms, advisors and brokers are establishing practices that manage both commission -- and fee-based businesses. 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.
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.
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.
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
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.
December 1, 2011
Kristen French
Broker Report Card 2011: It's Getting Better All the Time Registered Rep.'s 21st annual Broker Report Cards showed advisor satisfaction ratings creeping higher this year across the board -- on everything from compensation and benefits, compliance support and sales support to products. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
Registered Rep.
April 29, 2008
Citi Hedge Fund Blow Up Hurts Clients--And Sends Advisors Packing While Smith Barney tries its darnedest to hold on to the money of its wealthy clients, it's also having a hard time keeping some of its best brokers. 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
On Wall Street
September 1, 2011
Lorie Konish
Morgan Stanley Smith Barney's $1 Trillion Target Morgan Stanley Smith Barney focuses on growing its Consulting Group division, where it aims to double the assets in the managed account group to more than $1 trillion within the next five years. mark for My Articles similar articles
Registered Rep.
January 13, 2009
David Geracioti
Citi, Morgan Stanley Agree To Form Joint Venture; Reps Will Receive Retention Bonus--Gorman Says: "We're Not Stupid" The combined retail brokerage units will become the largest financial services firm in the world and be a "force to be reckoned with." The combined entity will have more than 20,000 Financial advisors and an estimated $1.7 trillion in client assets. mark for My Articles similar articles
Financial Advisor
December 2007
Sydney LeBlanc
More Options, More Business Independent advisors recently got the opportunity of a lifetime -- the marriage made between fee-based advisory accounts and fiduciary accountability finally made headlines in the SEC repeal of Rule 202. mark for My Articles similar articles