Broker Dealers
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Colorado exchange bones up on broker strategy
By Allison BellConnect for Health Colorado has won praise for focusing more on high-volume brokers.
April 08, 2016
How Advisory Firms Are Responding to Demographic ChallengesAt a SIFMA conference, execs discussed how they were bringing their firms and their recruiting practices into the future.
April 08, 2016
Best Full-Service Investment Firms Ranked by Investors: J.D. Power — 2016Overall satisfaction has weakened across full-service broker-dealers, the survey finds.
April 07, 2016
Survivor: One year in the (financial services) "trenches"This business is hard. This business is tough. And this business is about survival.
April 07, 2016
SIFMA’s Bentsen: DOL Rule Will Have Unintended ConsequencesSIFMA president also blasted the Obama administration's comments that the brokerage industry's business model "rests on bilking" clients.
April 07, 2016
Recruiting Roundup: $400M Merrill Broker Goes Indie With DynastyMeanwhile, LPL brings five advisors onto its brokerage platform in Ohio; SagePoint adds affiliated reps with $500 million.
April 06, 2016
What BD Presidents Think of DOL Fiduciary Rule, in 5 ChartsAn exclusive Investment Advisor magazine survey of the heads of independent broker-dealers reveals what they expect from the newly issued regulatory framework.
April 06, 2016
DOL Fiduciary Compliance: Colleen Bell on the Cambridge ApproachCambridge Investment Research is one independent BD taking a proactive stance in responding to the DOL fiduciary rule. Colleen Bell leads the way.