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.
The diaspora out of the wirehouses and into IBDs or RIAs is a much-talked about phenomenon. Is it really happening? At a recent Tiburon Strategic Advisors conference in New York, Chip Roame remarked that only one of the big four wirehouse firms is...
Scott A. Tilley shares something in common with the 150 disabled children playing baseball this spring in High Point's Miracle League. “The first thing you notice about Scott is the big smile on his face,” says Don Scarborough, vice...
Jered Haag, who shot many of our Advisors with Heart for this month's issue, is a New York native who has been photographing for Registered Rep. since 2007. His work has appeared in publications such as Women's Fitness, Golf Digest, Sporting News...
Financial advisor George Cook displays a pair of steel cuffs once worn by a child slave on his office coffee table. He knows what effect they can have on those who see them for the first time. Cook first saw cuffs like these in the office of a...
Financial advisor Steven Tonkinson uses his quick intelligence to solve investment problems and build portfolios for clients. But outside of the office, he uses his hands and his instincts to help relieve crises in places that have been struck by...
Patricia Estopinal was fortunate enough to grow up in a middle-class suburban home in New Jersey. But after going to school and settling down in Sacramento, the sixth largest city in California, she became more aware of the problems of the urban...
Growing up in Jonesboro, Ark., David A. Pickler was a voracious reader. He was especially taken with the biographies of our founding fathers John Adams, Thomas Jefferson and Ben Franklin. What he read about their lives gave him a deep appreciation...
John Vita's twin interests in the financial services business and in helping those less fortunate than himself began at an early age. Vita's father Robert was a Merrill Lynch broker for 40 years, and Vita recalls that as a boy, he loved going to...
Plowing the driveways of elderly neighbors after a snowstorm; volunteering at a homeless shelter; serving people food; mentoring a recovering drug addict; coaching a youth basketball league; hosting a men's support group; cutting up and clearing...
In 1993, in his mid-30s and with a growing advisory practice, John P. Hyland began looking for a local non-profit toward which he could devote some time. He chose the New Jersey chapter of the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, a cause that was dear to...
