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Financial Advisor March 2012 |
Frontline News Financial Advisor news: Building A Firm In Tough Economic Times... Keeping Up In An Evolving Space... Go South, Young Man... Wirehouses Still King Of The Hill...  |
Financial Planning August 1, 2010 Donna Mitchell |
Who's Planning? A study by Boston-based AiteGroup found that only 18% of independent advisors make financial planning the center of their practice.  |
Registered Rep. February 25, 2011 Diana Britton |
Financial Advisors Must Prepare For Coming Retirement Advice Boom As Baby Boomers retire, and switch gears from asset accumulation to asset distribution, advisors are going to have to become more sophisticated and efficient in their delivery of financial advice  |
Registered Rep. April 13, 2012 Kristen French |
Wells Fargo Wealth Management Business Posts Stagnant First Quarter Wells Fargo's wealth management business reported no growth in assets and a slight decline in advisors for the first quarter versus the same time period a year ago.  |
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.  |
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.  |
Registered Rep. January 28, 2011 John Aidan Byrne |
Banks Losing Mass Affluent To Online Brokerages U.S. and Canadian banks say developing mass affluent wealth management business is a top priority, but they're not doing enough about it.  |
Financial Planning October 1, 2012 Scott Wenger |
Looking to the Future: Securities America Wants to be a Leader in Retirement Income Distribution The author has a question and answer session with Securities America CEO Jim Nagengast  |
Registered Rep. November 4, 2011 John Aidan Byrne |
Rep-as-Portfolio Manager Programs Taking Off Despite the compliance hurdles, more than one third of financial advisors see direct handling of clients' assets by FAs acting as their portfolio managers clearly outpacing other fee-based management styles in the next three years.  |
Financial Advisor January 2006 Tracey Longo |
Working Smarter, Not Harder As more independent broker-dealers set themselves up as strategic outsourcing partners, they are finding bigger and better firms driven to their door by stagnant or shrinking profit margins and the accelerating compliance melee.  |
On Wall Street November 1, 2012 Mason Braswell |
Back Office Headaches: Inefficiencies Delay Account Opening Inefficiencies in account opening irk advisors and potential clients alike.  |
Registered Rep. December 10, 2010 Jerry Gleeson |
Wells Fargo Wants To Expand Wealth Biz Chief Executive John Stumpf was quoted as saying he felt the "sub-optimized" wealth business could stand some expansion.  |
Registered Rep. April 7, 2011 John Aidan Byrne |
Report : Wealth Management Firms To Jack Up CRM Spend Wealth management firms are expected to invest heavily in customer relationship management technology over the next three years, according to a new report from Aite Group.  |
On Wall Street June 1, 2011 |
The Leaders Speak The most influential leaders in wealth management today expound on evolution, revolution, moving the debate past wirehouse versus independent, and more.  |
Financial Advisor June 2007 Raymond Fazzi |
Follow The Money Broker-dealers sum up the future of advisory services in two words: rich folks.  |
Registered Rep. March 9, 2011 Kristen French |
Morgan Stanley Cutting 200-300 FAs And Trainees The firm's wealth management division, Morgan Stanley Smith Barney, should end the quarter with about 17,800 advisors, still the largest brokerage force in the U.S. by headcount.  |
Registered Rep. February 13, 2012 Jerry Gleeson |
Raymond James Ramping Up Its RIA with New Leadership, Investment The new president, Bill Van Law, said the company plans to make a significant investment in the business in the months ahead.  |
Registered Rep. November 6, 2012 John Aidan Byrne |
DIY Platforms Are Gaining the Mass Affluent Pressure to serve only the wealthiest, wirehouses are ceding the mass affluent to the independent, DIY brokerage platforms. Indeed, "direct" brokerages are beginning to offer more advice.  |
Registered Rep. February 7, 2012 Diana Britton |
LPL Posts Record Revenue For Year, Despite Volatility While other firms suffered in the fourth quarter on slow client activity, LPL Financial announced earnings today of $39.4 million for the quarter, up $156 million from a net loss of $116.6 million in the fourth quarter 2010.  |
Financial Advisor March 2012 Eric Rasmussen |
Swimming In Shallow Water Broker-dealers face a stagnant rep pool, shrinking margins and the choke hold of regulators. But it's been a boon to the biggest consolidators.  |
Registered Rep. July 7, 2011 John Aidan Byrne |
Good On-boarding A Key Competitive Edge For Wealth Management Firms Good on-boarding can be a selling point with advisors and their clients, who may be convinced to give the firm a larger share of their assets, while poor on-boarding efforts can cause clients to pull their business.  |
Financial Advisor April 2005 Tracey Longo |
How Boomers Will Change Your Firm What will your financial advisory firm look like in 2015? With about 75 million baby boomers retiring, different than than it does now.  |
Financial Advisor July 2006 Dorothy Hinchcliff |
Climbing A Stairway To Heaven As boomers age and spend their savings, financial advisors will need to adapt their practices.  |
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.  |
Financial Planning December 1, 2007 Kevin Barr |
Integration Ardor With careful analysis and discipline, financial advisors can take advantage of a host of technologies to make their businesses run more smoothly. And until that silver bullet appears, caveat emptor.  |
On Wall Street January 1, 2011 Lorie Konish |
Time To Move Past Dark Days After a year filled with slow overall growth and shifting hierarchy with the integration of big names like Bank of America Merrill Lynch and Morgan Stanley Smith Barney, the industry should be ready with more efficient business models and potentially higher profits in the coming year.  |
Financial Advisor July 2004 Tracey Longo |
Clearing Firms Come Courting With clearing industry players so clearly targeting advisors, competition for advisor business is likely to get even more interesting very soon.  |
Registered Rep. September 27, 2011 Jerry Gleeson |
Want More Prospecting Time? Integrate Your Tech, Study Says The cost of inefficient technology integration at registered investment advisor practices may be more than you would think.  |
Registered Rep. December 21, 2012 Megan Leonhardt |
Looking Back, 2012 A Mixed Bag For Wirehouses Assets mostly were up, but advisors are on the move.  |
On Wall Street July 1, 2009 Doug Dannemiller |
Advisors Face Competition from Do-it-Yourselfers Advisors face growing competition from web-based retirement planning services catering to the do-it-yourself instincts of the baby boomers.  |
Investment Advisor July 2010 David DeVoe |
Options, Options, Options Big banks used to be the main acquirers of advisory firms, but in the past few years, the consolidators and bigger advisors have recognized the opportunity as well.  |
Financial Advisor January 2012 Bruce W. Fraser |
Full Steam Ahead What could have been a sad chapter for Securities America now seems to be a new lease on life for the firm.  |
Financial Planning December 1, 2006 Marshall Eckblad |
The Retirement Puzzle Serving retirees might be a lot less profitable than most financial planners imagine. There are certainly opportunities in catering to this wealthy crowd, but only if you know where to look.  |
On Wall Street April 1, 2013 Lorie Konish |
Five Questions with Matt Matrisian The director of practice management at Genworth Financial offers advisors tips on avoiding common blind spots.  |
Financial Advisor June 2008 Tracey Longo |
Swimming Upstream California investment advisor John Threlkeld has been working diligently to serve wealthier and wealthier investors, even purchasing two other advisors' practices and turning all but his top clients over to a junior planner.  |
Financial Advisor November 2005 Tracey Longo |
All For Advisors Brokerage executives are doing their best to deliver the tools advisors need to move their business to the next level, while still remaining efficient. That includes streamlined technology, investment and rebalancing selections, outsourcing, practice management and business development assistance.  |
Financial Advisor August 2007 Tracey Longo |
A World For Advisors Broker-dealers across the country are reporting record revenue increases -- a significant portion of these from fee-based business -- and say they're continuing to step up their game in order to recruit advisors with significant practices.  |
Financial Advisor March 2012 David Lawrence |
Consolidation Quickens Advisors are increasingly turning to others to increase service and decrease costs.  |
Financial Planning June 1, 2012 Ann Marsh |
Go Big or Go Home There's a stark choice facing many players in the rapidly consolidating independent B-D game for the foreseeable future: Grow like crazy or call it quits.  |
Investment Advisor April 2009 Lewis Schiff |
Danger & Opportunity: Seling Wisdom Advisors with a wealth-management practice orientation can provide the kind of services affluent families need during difficult market times.  |
On Wall Street June 1, 2013 Braswell & Konish |
Leaders: Ranking the Top Wirehouses and Regional Broker-Dealers This year, the leading wirehouse and regional wealth management firms took the steps necessary to ensure they reap rewards as markets hit new highs.  |
Investment Advisor January 2007 Ivanova & Kahler |
The ABCs Of Retirees To meet the needs of retiree clients, financial advisors will need to beef up their knowledge not only of investment-related retirement issues, but also non-investment areas.  |
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.  |
Registered Rep. March 31, 2015 Diana Britton |
Do You Consider Yourself a Fiduciary? A survey of broker dealers on this question.  |
Financial Planning June 1, 2008 Donald Jay Korn |
All Systems Go Clients and income hold steady in the financial services industry.  |
Registered Rep. July 27, 2011 Diana Britton |
LPL Posts Record Revenues, Asset Levels; Adds 100 Reps LPL Financial reported record revenues in the second quarter of $894 million, a 13.1 percent gain.  |
Financial Advisor January 2009 Rebecca Pomering |
Turning Turbulence Into Growth Turmoil is creating big opportunities.  |
Financial Advisor April 2007 William Glasgall |
Why Marketing Works Over the years, many advisors, being analytical people at heart, have relegated marketing to a minor role behind crunching numbers for clients' financial plans and investment portfolios. Now, that attitude seems to be undergoing a long-needed change.  |
Registered Rep. December 4, 2012 Jerry Gleeson |
Taking Care of Business A survey this year by REP./Wealth Management.com shows how RIA attitudes differ from those among advisors in other channels.  |
Registered Rep. March 8, 2011 Diana Britton |
IBDs Dress Up Offerings For Hybrids Independent broker-dealers have lately been ramping up their efforts to attract hybrid advisors.  |