If relationships are the heart of the advisory business, technology, it could be argued, is the circulatory system, ensuring the information that supports the relationship goes where it’s needed without trouble. In that respect brokerage firms a...

Advisors’ perspective on their current firms is strongly influenced by what kind of firm they came from. REP.’s 2014 Independent Broker/Dealer Report Card found that almost 40 percent of advisors at IBDs have worked with another IBD previous to t...

This is the fourth year the staff of REP. magazine has put together the Independent Broker/Dealer Report Card. We surveyed a total of 2,649 advisors across 22 brokerages to get their views on the industry and what they think about the firms they ...

The ascendency of fee-based compensation in the IBD space continues and independent reps now make less than half their compensation from commissions. Today, some 48 percent of an independent advisor’s compensation comes from asset-based fees. So...

Soaring equity markets gave a boost to advisors’ compensation and benefits this year, with advisors’ average score of their firms rising to 8.8 from 8.7 last year. Summit Brokerage Services, Securities Service Network and VSR Financial Services g...

RIA and dually registered advisory channels will grow their share of the advised assets to 26 percent by 2016, up from 21 percent today, according to a new report by Cerulli Associates. That growth will largely come at the expense of the wirehous...

M&A activity up 20% as firms complete 54 deals last year

Forgiveness of firm retention packages turns the heat up on recruiting.

When she was at BofA, Sallie Krawcheck said that the breakaway movement hadn’t happened yet—that the top producers were still on Wall Street. She’s still saying that, and she’s still right...