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The No. 1 IBD added Securities America’s largest enterprise, whose founder says the firm’s new private equity-backed owner made him uncertain about the future.
May 6 -
Moody’s lowered the giant IBD network’s credit rating with sobering words that could resonate across wealth management.
March 20 -
Rivals will be waiting to seize on any changes that may irk some 4,400 representatives poised to operate under a new parent IBD network.
January 6 -
The acquisition of Ladenburg Thalmann for $1.3 billion would take the private equity-backed firm into the realm of the largest firms in the sector.
November 12 -
The Reverence Capital Partners-backed network would expand into nine subsidiary brands with 11,500 advisors under the deal, taking the selling firm private.
November 11 -
The network of five IBDs with 4,400 advisors hasn’t made a final decision, according to Bloomberg News.
October 30 -
Median revenue surged by 18% in the sector, but forward-looking companies have already adjusted to a fast-changing industry.
October 28 -
A barred and terminated former Securities America advisor’s conduct was “appalling, reprehensible and evil,” according to a federal judge.
August 8 -
The stark figures show that only about one-sixth or fewer of the sector’s financial advisors are women.
August 5 -
Ladenburg Thalmann's largest firm has added at least five teams in the wake of recent acquisitions by rivals.
August 1