In this section we present key findings and insights from our survey questions on practice management and operations, including services offered, the most time-consuming activities, professional designations, custody relationships and documentation trends.
Advisors are often recruited to broker/dealers based on promises that the firm later fails to deliver on, according to a recent Registered Rep. reader poll...
Wealth management software firm Advent Software announced plans Thursday to acquire rival Black Diamond Performance Reporting for $73 million—a move that will cement Advent’s hold in the portfolio management software playing field...
Two years ago, over 20,000 advisors switched firms after the market tanked and three of the major Wall Street brokerage firms were swept up into shotgun marriages with other financial giants. Some advisors left Wall Street because they were...
Advisors don’t appreciate how cautious clients have become, said speakers at the Investment Company Institute’s recent general membership meeting in Washington yesterday. Despite two years of rising markets, clients continue to hold...
Edward Jones is changing tack a little bit. Long known as a firm that trains greenhorns and career changers from the ground up and then holds onto them (mostly) for life, the firm is getting serious about recruiting experienced financial advisors.
Registered Rep.’s top-rated 2010 independent broker/dealer advisor Ron Carson has announced plans to leave LPL Financial (Nasdaq: LPLA) to become an independent registered investment advisor in July and start his own broker/dealer later this...
In a revolutionary step forward, Raymond James Financial and Commonwealth Financial are putting the “social” back into social media—they will begin allowing their advisors to interact with and engage in conversations with others...
The Kentucky Derby has been called the fastest two minutes in sports. But after the thoroughbreds thunder past the finish line at Churchill Downs during the 137th running of the storied race on May 7, another competition will begin to gather speed...
Kathleen A. Muldoon is passionate about The Parkland Health & Hospital System in Dallas. It's a hospital that is known in some distant parts of the world its trauma specialists have trained doctors at every hospital in Israel, for example. But it...
