LPL Financial

The case marks the firm’s second in a month, but its special investigations unit helped crack it.

The IBD aims to be a 17,000-strong firm, but not every advisor will want to join up, experts warn.

The nation’s largest broker-dealer must convince thousands of NPH advisors to make the transition.

The technology underpinning Alexa can automate meetings, update clients and even deliver advice.

The nation’s largest IBD paid $325 million, but it may spend as much as $508 million in the deal.

Securities America adds 10 advisors in the second recent poach by a Ladenburg Thalmann firm.

The company spent $77 million on technology last year, but difficult changes lie ahead.

Large-cap equities were the only group of offerings that outperformed their respective benchmark.

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Rob Comfort will lead sales operations and develop the firm's network of 400 advisors at more than 250 credit unions nationwide.

The nation’s largest independent broker-dealer has had a net loss of 121 advisors this year, mostly to three major OSJs.

The advisors collected $1.7 million by fraudulently pushing variable annuities, investigators say.

The advisors come from a firm reported to manage over $5 billion in assets.

The IBD spent $77 million on technology upgrades in 2016.

The nation's biggest IBD believes macro trends are ideal to boost recruiting, says LPL managing director Bill Morrissey.

The firm is trying to show advisors how they can use LPL’s resources to “get more at-bats” with prospective clients, an executive said.

Dan Arnold says behavioral management, automation and portfolio and planning services need to be combined to win future clients.

"Make the process as collaborative as possible," one expert says.

CEO Dan Arnold said advisers’ uncertainty about the fiduciary rule is waning.

The new executive will lead a team counseling advisers on how to comply with the DOL rule.