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Jud Bergman's Envestnet has seen a spectacular rebound in its share price since early 2016.
December 8, 2017 at 12:28 AM

Mike Allard: I like having LPL as the big brother.

All-LPL M&A deal yields one $875-million firm in which Black Diamond, Schwab and Vanguard are named factors

The 51-year-old founder of CalBay Investments Inc. and the Hillis Financial Services founder, 73, do a succession-minded combination that keeps assets all in the LPL family

November 29, 2017 at 11:49 PM

Graham Thomas interviewed Michael Kitces about the elephant in the FPA tent.

The 2017 FPA conference leans heavily on a Michael Kitces unimpressed with the group's 'silence' on the CFP Board

Although its theme was elusive, the Denver-based advocacy group and standard-setter drew 1,800 advisors to the Country-Western capital

October 9, 2017 at 7:57 PM

Andy Kalbaugh: This is not a new fee, rather a simpler way for both of us to administer the existing oversight fee.

Tensions build with OSJs after LPL Financial's 'about face' on held-away RIA assets and forced use of its corporate RIA

Can the Fort Mill, S.C. broker-dealer add 3,200 NPH advisors, make RIAs bend to its will and not break bad with giant partners?

September 6, 2017 at 12:09 AM

Trust the market not the metaphor: Today's blotting out of the sun actually signals good times ahead.

Never mind seared corneas. Will the first total American Eclipse since 1991 trigger a major equities market correction?

LPL stat-gazer says signs point to 'no' -- since the turn of the last century total solar eclipses as viewed from the US have presaged double-digit equity gains

August 22, 2017 at 5:59 PM

Chip Roame: Frankly, I doubt that there were many other legitimate bidders for NPH.

LPL Financial's tack to roll-up mode -- complete with trash-talking its sweet terms -- may send its rep count sailing past Morgan and Merrill

CEO Dan Arnold's pivot away from seller's market in reps to buyer's market in scooping up rivals on the cheap is an experiment that could work

August 18, 2017 at 6:41 PM

Chip Roame: Frankly, I doubt that there were many other legitimate bidders for NPH.

Chip Roame crosses Bay to proclaim bright future for classic RIAs -- and says a certain wirehouse will go fee-only to become the largest RIA -- at Laser App event

CEO Dan Arnold's pivot away from seller's market in reps to buyer's market in scooping up rivals on the cheap is an experiment that could work

August 17, 2017 at 6:36 PM

Burt White: Historical technical analysis tells us that buying the dip is often the right move in bullish trending markets.

LPL investment chief to advisors: Buy the dip! What'll it look like? Good question.

Keep an eye out for a pullback triggered by a central bank goof-up, a Trump super-SNAFU or a geopolitical kaboom

August 8, 2017 at 9:56 PM

Robert Pettman: We're essentially setting up a gating mechanism. The cash is going through the money market fund and that’s why it’s traded with waived. load shares.

LPL Financial clips wings of 20 top fund companies by asserting itself as 'gatekeeper' on newly launched DOL-proof 3.5% flat-commission mutual fund superstore

Using Labor Department as leverage, LPL cuts itself in as middleman between branded fund giants -- including Fidelity, Legg Mason and Putnam -- and its advisors' clients -- in exchange for semi-exclusive shelf space positioning

August 4, 2017 at 10:04 PM

Jim O'Shaughnessy: LPL will allow us to give recommendations but you've got to make sure you're fully working in the RIA with compliance, supervision and that product recommendations are all under that umbrella.

LPL Financial's DOL-rule memo to reps implies deeper message: Become an RIA or stand down on giving rollover advice

The 'deep-pocketed' broker-dealer puts its Series-7 brokers on notice to forget about suggesting a rollover even as it gives its hybrid RIAs a strict protocol to stay out of trouble

July 5, 2017 at 8:02 PM

Jim Putnam: We have great confidence in our ability to thrive as an independent public company.

Incredulity hovers over LPL's retro -- or is it inspired? -- choice of original 1983 employee Jim Putnam as chairman

As the 14,000-rep broker-dealer gropes for a post-DOL, post-digital future, it'll rely on the old-school standard bearer to shepherd new CEO Dan Arnold

March 10, 2017 at 8:05 PM

Ron Carson: I have never lost that continued drive to fix things that some might say were not broken.

One effect of Ron Carson's exit from LPL after 27 years: His firm disclosed the use of forgivable loans to the SEC

Carson Wealth Management is both an advisor and an advisor platform and Carson says neither he nor his firm 'took a check' in any form

March 3, 2017 at 10:46 PM

Dan Arnold: Let me expand on our first priority: growing our core business.

New LPL CEO Dan Arnold thrills Wall Street in debut by laying out vanilla vision

Deflecting talk of RIA strategies and alliances with giants aside, Mark Casady's successor says LPL Financial's recruiting machine is poised to crank in DOL turmoil cast-offs

February 10, 2017 at 7:55 PM

Louis Diamond: It’s a black eye to the new CEO, especially with all the rumors of a sale.

LPL fires $10 billion RIA in Kansas City with both parties happy to keep the rift's cause out of view

With fiduciary rules, the economics of RIA custody and LPL fresh off a CEO departure, Resources Investment Advisors Inc. with $4 billion of its own and $6 billion of affiliated assets, declines to say if it's found a new home

February 3, 2017 at 7:17 PM

Matt Sonnen: Ron said to me and is on record as saying that the brokerage business, that’s Cetera, is just an accommodation for clients.

The real Ron Carson story is that most assets went to Fidelity and TD Ameritrade where technology allows him to execute his vision

The big talk was the lateral move of some assets to Cetera but it was more a smokescreen for a breakaway

January 27, 2017 at 6:51 PM

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