Finding the best tools and resources to run a practice effectively is why independent advisors choose one broker/dealer over another. There are lots of quantifiable reasons an advisor sticks with a firm, but like any good relationship, there is a...

Wells Fargo Advisors filled another spot on the expanded financial services leadership team on Wednesday, promoting longtime insider Bob Vorlop to head up the newly created Products and Advice division...

Summit Brokerage Services is celebrating their near-perfect score (9.9 out of 10) earned in WealthManagement.com’s IBD Report Card in style—Western style, that is. The firm’s 85 employees at the Boca Raton, Fla. headquarters participated in a BB...

For the last couple of years, the independent broker/dealer channel has been in a tough spot. Post-crisis, IBDs have been buried by increased compliance burdens, greater demand for investment in technology and a lot of additional risks and costs ...

Independent B/D Acquires Washington Wealth Management

If relationships are the heart of the advisory business, technology, it could be argued, is the circulatory system, ensuring the information that supports the relationship goes where it’s needed without trouble. In that respect brokerage firms a...

Advisors’ perspective on their current firms is strongly influenced by what kind of firm they came from. REP.’s 2014 Independent Broker/Dealer Report Card found that almost 40 percent of advisors at IBDs have worked with another IBD previous to t...