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June 17, 2005 at 08:00 PM
In a year marked by strong attendance at advisor and broker/dealer conferences despite a flat stock market, Pershing Insite, the show run by the big clearing and custody unit of Bank of New York, was anything but an exception to the trend. More than 600 advisors and B/D execs packed the halls of the Westin Diplomat Resort in Hollywood, Florida, to hear former Secretary of State James Baker praise the U.S. military and listen to Chief Operating Officer Brian Shea proclaim that Pershing and its clients are rushing to embrace fee-based business. Says Shea: “Pershing’s goal is to be the leading provider of fee-based solutions for broker/dealers and registered investment advisors.”
Shea noted that Pershing finished April with $703 billion in client assets, down $3 billion from the end of 2004 in a reflection of lackluster stock market performance. But the April tally is still up 14% from the $615 billion Pershing claimed at the end of 2003. Reflecting Pershing’s increased emphasis on fee-based business, however, client assets in no-load and other mutual funds increased by nearly $24 billion, to $178 billion, between April 2004 and April 2005, and assets in the firm’s Avail fee-based brokerage program grew by nearly 30%, to $11.7 billion.
He also disclosed that Pershing clients’ assets in Bank of New York’s Lockwood managed account subsidiary rose 14% over the past 12 months, to $25 billion. He noted than 40 of Pershing’s B/D customers have already done deals with Lockwood to offer managed account programs under their own brand names and are now rolling them out.
