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Bill Morrissey epitomizes LPL's ability to grow rapidly.
April 14, 2014 at 6:52 PM

Derek Bruton: It allowed me to step back and look at all I had accomplished to date and where I wanted to go from here.  In the short term, I will be taking some time to prioritize and recharge.

What is the story with Derek Bruton's sudden LPL departure?

The powerful veteran seemed to be in the prime of his career and rising with a long track record of goodwill

April 6, 2014 at 5:23 PM

Nicholas Schorsch: We don't want more product sales.

Nicholas Schorsch explains why buying Cetera makes him a white-hat magnate in a black-hat world

The RCS chairman says the whole purpose of buying IBDs is to diversify away from product sales

February 4, 2014 at 3:00 PM

John Deremo: Once we paid the government back in excess of $22 billion, we consider that whole matter is behind us and we're tackling challenges of tomorrow.

AIG puts its once-tarnished brand on a small band of obscure insurance brokers -- perhaps testing the waters for Royal Alliance and friends

The insurance giant isn't ruling out whiting out the motley brands of Royal Alliance, FSC, SagePoint and Woodbury

January 16, 2014 at 10:03 PM

Ruth Papazian: LPL was at that stage of really wanting to grow like H.D. Vest is today, and I love to grow things.

Ruth Papazian bursts back on the scene to jolt H.D. Vest out of its accountancy coma

The ex-LPL marketing czar lands at the Dallas firm as marketing and recruiting chief tasked with losing the 'stale' marketing and replenishing an army of low-producing advisors

October 18, 2013 at 5:36 AM

Wayne Meier: When Amerprise sold them, I was glad to see it.

How exactly Securities America won back a $414 million team that left in a huff in 2007

The once embattled broker-dealer -- after switching out Ameriprise as owner -- is determined to woo back former advisors who left during turmoil

September 26, 2013 at 3:52 AM

Sharon Miller: We partner back and forth between Merrill Lynch and Merrill Edge so it is seamless.

The amazing success of Merrill Edge and why some legacy Merrill brokers think it's eating their seed crop

It won $87 billion in brokerage assets in three years, but some old Merrill Lynch vets say it's just pulling emerging accounts away from thems

September 23, 2013 at 6:30 PM

Ryan Marcus: My job is to bring them to the big dance.

After a head-fake, Royal Bank of Canada shows it's back (or never left) in the RIA game with two NextGen hires

100 brokers have moved to RBC's broker dealer or RIA unit in the last 4 years though some recruiters need convincing that the RIA unit is more than a retention tool

September 5, 2013 at 8:02 PM

Brad Sullivan: I have a four-year-old son. I would not put my son at risk if I didn't think this move was worth it.

Why a young Morgan Stanley team moved to Beverly Hills Wealth Management -- with a child in mind

The breakaway movement continues to revive fueled by mid-sized firms like Sullivan Wealth Management despite a bull market

July 25, 2013 at 7:31 PM

Jeff Spears: People have the mantra that if it ain't broke, don't fix it. There are no pain points.

How two deals struck last week show midsize RIAs reigniting the M&A and breakaway movements

The stakes are high for an ex-Morgan Stanley team that bolted with years to go on retention bonuses and a Virginia RIA is hitching its expansion plans to United Capital's star

July 15, 2013 at 4:15 PM

Bill Wostoupal: It is highly unlikely the IBD is going to help them put a private-labeled app in the Droid and App stores.

What Securities America and NorthStar Financial are up to with the creation of Arbor Point

The Cornhusker State companies found common ground in building a home for the burgeoning 'Goldilocks' category of not-too-RIA, not-too-IBD advisor

July 1, 2013 at 6:09 AM

Wayne Bloom: If we have an advisor who wants to be part of the community and values what we bring to the table, I could care less how they are registered.

Commonwealth and Securities America get into the RIA custody business and Wells Fargo is right behind them

IBD execs are pulling out the stops to court a finite pool of advisors in motion

June 12, 2013 at 5:51 AM

Walter Bettinger: We did not expect conflict. We're not seeing it.

Some Schwab independent branches are raking in assets as much as 200% above goals, Schwab CEO says

Analysts applaud the scant data but one RIA has the opposite reaction to what Walt Bettinger said

May 2, 2013 at 8:15 PM

Mark Casady: When our same-store sales are up, then recruiting is typically down.

LPL, Raymond James and TD data -- and Walt Bettinger, Mike Durbin comments -- reveal rotten first quarter for breakaways

Mark Casady's explanation is hard to swallow for Danny Sarch, Mindy Diamond; Bettinger inveighs against 'rat trap' of checkbook recruiting; Ryan Shanks says advisors are "numb to the chaos"

April 26, 2013 at 5:17 PM

Michael Kitces: We've sparred back and forth on a couple of things over the past few years.

Two firms that have love-hate relationships with RIAs draft their harshest critics to serve as consiglieres

Advisor-rater BrightScope and tech startup Riskalyze draw two smack-talking industry observers into their inner circle

April 16, 2013 at 1:36 PM

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