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HighTower hooks a 'rare' Miami catch of a JP Morgan Private Bank stripe at a crucial moment

As sales chatter hits a fever pitch on the conference cocktail party circuit, the Chicago roll-up affiliates with a white shoe recruit and gains some needed business-as-usual credibility

Author Brooke Southall October 5, 2017 at 11:23 PM
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Marc Shachtman: Affiliating with HighTower was unequivocally the right choice.

Stephen Winks

Stephen Winks

October 6, 2017 — 7:10 PM
If Shachtman's discernment of independent advisory services alternatives is any indication, Hightower has opened the door wide open for high end advisors at private banks which have been untouchable by retail brokers. Quite a statement of HighTowers capabilities and the vulnerabilities of our best known private banks connoting a leveling of the playing field for the highest level of counsel.. SCW,

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