Are proprietary products an endangered species in the IBD world?  Or did they just morph into more complex platforms?

As technology becomes more nimble, commoditized and cloud-based, smaller firms seem to have gained an edge when it comes to serving their advisors.

The ascendancy of fee-based compensation in the independent broker/dealer space continues. Nearly 48 percent of advisors’ compensation comes from asset-based fees, up from 36 percent in 2011. Commissions accounted for another 48 percent of adviso...

Many b/ds offer their reps special perks and incentives beyond payout. Eighty percent of advisors said their b/d offers top-producer reward trips, compared to about 73 percent in last year’s Independent Broker/Dealer Report Card. About 73 percent...

With the president throwing his support behind a proposed fiduciary standard for retirement accounts, the debate over the rule is intensifying. Fifty-three percent of advisors who responded to our survey are already serving in a fiduciary capacit...

Joseph Ruzycki, the founder and CEO of the Center for Wealth Planning, is converting the extra large office of supervisory jurisdiction, or super-OSJ, into an independent registered investment advisor firm that custodies with LPL Financial. As of...

Birmingham, Ala.-based advisors Terry Bethea and Larry Angst have decided to return to Securities America after about four years with LPL Financial. The team, which manages $100 million in client assets, left the firm for LPL in August 2011...

Santa Clara, Calif.-based independent broker/dealer Foothill Securities has scooped up a team with over $1 billion in assets from Financial Telesis. California Financial Advisors in San Ramon, Calif. is run by principals Michael Maloon, Thomas...

UBS Wealth Management Americas promoted two complex directors to oversee advisors in the New York metropolitan area and southwest regions...