Registered Rep. Staff

For the 19th consecutive year, Registered Representative honors 10 of the industry's finest reps and teams based on their superior performance at work and in their communities. Read about their business priorities and...

Poll NotesEven though the market was more tumultuous this year, reps' opinions about their firms remain remarkably steady in our eighth annual survey of brokerage performance. In general, brokers praise the firms'...

Coming off a year (1996) in which median gross production ($280,989) and broker earnings ($108,064) were at an all-time high, one might think brokerage firms would leave well enough alone. But this year, five major...

In October, RR polled a total of 400 brokers; 50 from each of the top firms as measured by number of retail reps: A.G. Edwards, Dean Witter, Edward Jones, EVEREN Securities, Merrill Lynch, PaineWebber, Prudential...

Several prominent mutual fund companies have revoked their NAV transfer privileges in recent months, knuckling under to brokerage pressure, despite the risk of alienating customers and some reps.Van Kampen American...

A former Prudential Securities broker in Miami has been sentenced to 10 years in federal prison and ordered to forfeit $250,000 for his role in laundering drug money. Some believe the case could trigger greater...

Like the English railing their queen for lacking emotion upon the death of Princess Diana, some reps are criticizing EVEREN CEO James Borris, who they believe hasn't shown enough grief over reducing broker pay while...

Financial services firms catering to the independent broker marketplace are being snapped up by larger broker/dealers looking for deeper sources of distribution.Denver-based Portfolio Management Consultants (PMC), the...