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Wayne Bloom
By staff WriterWayne Bloom has been named chief executive officer for Commonwealth Financial Network. He has been wtih the company since 1989, and has served as a managing principal since 1999. He is a founder of the company's Preferred Portfolio Services program,
January 01, 2009
Polishing Your ReputationHow do you strengthen as well as preserve your practice's reputation, when your broker-dealer is having "issues"? Everybody is having issues - virtually no one and...
January 01, 2009
Marketing in a DownturnIf you are retaining 100% of your clients these days, you have a compelling story to tell. Consider that The Wall Street Journal reported on...
January 01, 2009
Green Investing in Trying TimesI'm sure that every generation of Americans has faced a crisis that gave them good reason to embrace Thomas Paine's revolutionary quotation of 1776. In...
December 12, 2008
Some financial industry sectors will fare better in '09No sector of the securities and investments industry will be exempt from regulation, according to a new TowerGroup research report. However, the electronic trading and...
December 01, 2008
Wachovia's 14,600 FAs to Merge with WellsIn the third quarter, Wachovia reports that the number of Series 7 brokers has stayed flat at 14,635. The number of bank, or Series 6,...
December 01, 2008
Morgan Stanley Advisors Join Bank-Deposit PushMorgan Stanley says it has begun "leveraging" its 8,500 financial advisors, 500 retail offices nationwide and new bank-holding structure, to build new bank deposits. The...