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This father-daughter-son team survived 9/11 but divorced Wall Street altogether 14 years later

The trigger was a demand by Morgan Stanley to sign a bank contract but there was much more that led the practice to LPL OSJ, Private Advisor Group

Author Sanders Wommack April 7, 2015 at 5:17 PM
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Sara Botkin [with father Les and brother Lester]: We learned that it became a fireable offense to refer clients to other banks.

Teresa Vollenweider

Teresa Vollenweider

April 7, 2015 — 7:55 PM

Did these folks somehow miss Morgan Stanley CFO Ruth Porat’s comment about the bank not penetrating (her word not mine) their so-called clients/customers with enough products? Maybe that will ease up now that she is moving to Silicon Valley—Google. Not!

I only wish that all the so-called clients/customers of these so-called advisors and their so-called firms knew what these greedy grubbers were doing to them. What a travesty of justice.

Gene Chaas, CFA

Gene Chaas, CFA

April 7, 2015 — 9:36 PM

My gosh, this is nothing new. The formerly innovative Merrill Lynch had similar promotions in the mid 1990’s.

Mr RIA

Mr RIA

April 8, 2015 — 4:36 PM

It just makes my stomach turn reading about these brokers and banks. How sad for our country.


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