As Recruiting Bubble Ends, What Alternatives Do Advisors Have?
By Steven InselThis is the fifth installment in an ongoing series for financial advisors evaluating recruiting packages, retention packages, setting up their own fee-only advisory firms or joining independent broker-dealers.
April 01, 2009
Choose Your PartnerIt's not a question of any port in a storm -- it's the right port ... in a tsunami. That's what independent broker-dealers are seeking...
April 01, 2009
Dealing with the Downturn"Business as usual" is not in my vocabulary during these extraordinary times. Maintaining client contact is more important than it has ever been. In addition...
April 01, 2009
Taking Notes Along the WayThis issue contains the sixth in a series of first-person articles in which advisor Mike Patton is chronicling his own Road to Independence from employee...
April 01, 2009
Mike's Tips for Independent SuccessWhile every advisor will have his own preferences for how he operates, and his own definition of success, here are some suggestions for how to...
April 01, 2009
Raymond James Euphoric Over Recruiting; Introduces New Leader at Confab(LAS VEGAS) Executives of Raymond James Financial Services met with about 1,500 of the firm's 3,120 independent advisors during the group's annual professional-development conference, held...
April 01, 2009
Simply IndispensableIn a one-and-a-half page memo to Commonwealth Financial Network's advisors sent in January, new CEO Wayne Bloom mentions the word "indispensable" or "indispensability" five times. "It's...
March 30, 2009
The Independent Tech AdvantageI love being independent! When you're employed at a large organization, you are at the mercy of the decision-makers as to which technology you can...