Independent BDs

If you're not focusing your time and attention on the people who add the most value to your firm, you're getting it wrong.

Firm switches to LPL to help it attract "overlooked" wirehouse advisors with $250,000 or more in revenues.

The St. Petersburg, Fla.-based firm's independent broker/dealer has recruited veteran advisors James L. Switzer and Eric M. Cobb from Morgan Stanley.

A set of mid-1990s recommendations aimed to reform Wall Street's culture. They didn't, however -- and the real losers were investors.

Several factors are pressuring margins for everyone in planning, says LPL Financial's Bill Morrissey.

Federal Reserve Bank of Boston President Eric Rosengren said brokerage regulation needs a “major re-examination” to prevent funding shortfalls during a crisis and that brokers should have higher capital requirements.

'Our main objective is organic growth,' says Larry Roth, chief executive of Cetera Financial Group.

HighTower recruited a Merrill Lynch advisor team managing $800 million in assets.

Advisors must make several key business decisions to go independent, says Shirl Penney, founder of Dynasty Financial Partners.

The CEO of one of the largest planning firms makes his own estate planning move.

Walk into any wealth management firm, and chances are there won't be any African-American advisors at all. What's causing the diversity gap - and how can the industry fix it?

Derek Bruton takes the top job at a firm with historical ties to an advisor that the SEC has barred from the industry.

Increased operating expenses and higher than anticipated regulatory costs and fines contributed to a 4.4% drop in second-quarter net income at LPL Financial.

Entrepreneurial advisors are leaving the wirehouses and constructing new business models the industry hasn't seen. But before joining these trailblazers, other advisors should think about what it is they want to change.

After leaving LPL for NFP, Washington Wealth brings its breakaway advisor total to seven for the year thus far.

HighTower has expanded its West Coast market by picking up an independent team with $400 million in assets in Bellevue, Wash.

Record quarterly profits of $122.7 million were boosted in part by the performance of the regional firm's private client group.

Optimism abounds in an increasingly crowded market for servicing breakaway advisors.

Securities America will acquire assets of a Missouri-based full-service broker-dealer with 368 advisors and $2.4 billion in client assets.

Two financial advisors have left Wells Fargo to join Raymond James Financial Services, the regional's independent broker/dealer.