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A $4 million revenue producing team from Wells Fargo Advisors Financial Network (FiNet) has jumped ship to Raymond James Financial Services, the firm’s independent contractor unit.
Very few "terminated" brokers find work again in the industry,
regardless of circumstances. What firms will hire them? Author and
financial advisor Josh Brown looks at the numbers to find out.
Many financial advisors fail to consistently provide their affluent clients with the high level of service that they claim to offer. Advisors who take the concept of “client experience” seriously develop what I refer to as a client...
Critics of a fiduciary standard for stockbrokers beware: A recent study released in early March suggests that application of a fiduciary standard to the broker/dealer model wouldn’t have the terrible...
Innovation is a constant in the world of investing. New spins on old ideas are forever being dreamt up by product departments most of them are meant to make lots of money for the people who sell them and the investors who buy them. Not all of them...
Raymond James Financial announced this morning that it has closed the deal to purchase regional firm Morgan Keegan from Regions Financial Corp. for $1.2 billion in cash. The combined firm will have 6,500 advisors and $372 billion in total client...
Niches are beautiful As markets change and the financial advisory industry demands new services, advisor teams that have the right skills and are paying attention can position themselves as the next go-to practice. There's this push for...