by Patrick M. Kelly | Jul 31, 2012 | Financial Advisors, Wall Street
The nation’s largest independent broker-dealer, LPL Financial set out to improve their Model Wealth Portfolio platform, already highly successful. To become more efficient, the firm added more strategists to the platform, including their own research arm, Morningstar....
by Patrick M. Kelly | Jul 27, 2012 | Breakaway Brokers, Wall Street
During its third quarter of the last fiscal year, 120 brokers joined RIA TD Ameritrade, up 50% from a year earlier. For all of last year, TD Ameritrade attracted 348 breakaway brokers, a trend, which managing director of sales Pete Dorsey expects to continue, “because...
by Patrick M. Kelly | Jul 25, 2012 | Financial Recruiting Industry
Rule 2111 expands broker-dealer suitability and “know your customer” obligations in three ways and it became effective on July 9. Is this just another bureaucratic initiative or does it really strive to provide uniformity and consistency to the old rule? And will it...
by Patrick M. Kelly | Jul 18, 2012 | Financial Services Industry
John Taft, CEO of RBC Wealth Management and 2011 Chairman of the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA) has written a new book, “Stewardship: Lessons Learned from the Lost Culture of Wall Street.” Taft, who had a direct role in the financial...
by Patrick M. Kelly | Jul 16, 2012 | Breakaway Brokers, Broker-Dealers, Brokers
Financial Advisor Magazine’s July 2012 issue has the latest rankings and survey of the RIA firm arena. Reported by Eric Rasmussen, several trends are emerging in this year’s survey. Breakaway brokers have continued to enter the RIA space even more rapidly following...