Cetera Financial Group

The basic yet revealing query shows why it’s not just about FINRA registration as a BD and 1099 contractor status for advisors.

For the first time, the ranks of the top 25 firms according to their annual business include single entries for IBD networks.

The IBD network had been preparing for disruption, CEO Adam Antoniades says, and it has the financial flexibility it needs to boost financial advisors’ practices.

Ratings agencies predict major losses for all of the largest BDs, prompting firms to reassess strategies in uncertain times.

Moody’s affirmed the company’s “B3” rating but signalled the potential wide-reaching impact of the pandemic across wealth management.

The former Cetera advisors joined the firm’s employee channel.

The 8,000-advisor IBD network will launch “a more robust hybrid offering” this year, Head of Wealth Management Tim Stinson tells Financial Planning in a new podcast.

Faced with the retention risk from the RIA-only channel, firms are trying to alter their company cultures and questioning traditional approaches.

The IBD with 8,000 advisors had been without a permanent chief executive since Robert Moore’s departure in March.

The IBD network's AdvicePay integration could help the firm convert more retirement plan business into wealth management clients as it completes a record year for new assets.

The regulator’s expanding number of share-class cases fill in the details it says have been missing from Form ADV disclosures about conflicts of interest.

The IBD’s corporate RIA didn’t require about 350 banks to provide clients the terms of its arrangement.

The IBD failed to adequately disclose conflicts of interest to clients related to receiving $10.8 million from mutual funds and its clearing broker, the SEC says.

President Adam Antoniades cites record expansion for the year, but the IBD network faces challenges related to recruiting and debt levels.

The IBD network joins asset managers and other companies developing new methods to display how the products integrate into client portfolios.

AR Capital, Schorsch and former CFO Brian Block allegedly raked in millions through inflating fees in REIT mergers.

Summit Brokerage Services will fold 450 advisors into one of the 41 OSJ regions under Cetera Advisor Networks this summer.

The entrepreneur's OSJ also recruited an advisor named after J.P. Morgan and another new affiliated practice.

Summit Brokerage Services wasn’t feeding the notifications into the transactions blotter while its ownership went into flux, according to the regulator.

The group added teams from Wells Fargo FiNet and JPMorgan Chase by expanding with an eye toward meeting a need in the marketplace.