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Summary: After working more than 35 years at Merrill Lynch, advisor Don O’Neal decided in early 2013 to make a switch. Along with his longtime partner, Teresa Brokaw, he packed up and joined a rival wirehouse. But instead of becoming a captive broker, the pair signed up with the Wells Fargo Advisors Financial Network, or FiNet, the firm’s independent channel.
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Summary: As a Financial Advisor and a steward of your firm’s future, you may be contemplating changing firms and moving your business because it’s in the best interest of all relevant stakeholders.
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Summary:In the majority of advisory firms, the founder is the primary rainmaker. He or she seems to have this innate ability or magical powers to create rain out of hay. For far too long they have been the primary source of new business and the entire firm has grown up around them in support of their rainmaker role
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Summary: There were fewer financial advisors plying their trade in 2014 than in 2013, according to a new report by Cerulli Associates. In fact, the research firm sees in last year’s numbers the continuation of a trend in FA head count erosion — spearheaded by losses in the wirehouse channel.
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Summary:On Friday, the first full day of the three-day T3 conference, the tech news kept coming, and it was undeniable that technology providers to financial advisors are preparing for a next-gen shift as investors becoming increasingly comfortable with online financial services.