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National Financial Partners buys longtime partner Fusion signaling a shift away from the 'roll-up' model

The New York-based agglomeration of financial businesses is looking to inject higher levels of intelligence, best practices and culture by bringing the services of Fusion in-house

Author Brooke Southall July 18, 2012 at 4:01 AM
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Stuart Silverman: We're not saying: 'Let's take the culture for 250 (the existing Fusion advisors) and bring it to (all) 1,400 (NFP reps firms).


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