Raymond James Financial announced this morning that it has closed the deal to purchase regional firm Morgan Keegan from Regions Financial Corp. for $1.2 billion in cash. The combined firm will have 6,500 advisors and $372 billion in total client...
RIA aggregator Concert Advisor Services has launched a new hybrid platform, Concert Advisors, and partnered with independent broker/dealer LPL Financial to provide brokerage and custody services.
Registered Rep.: How will the SEC handle the fiduciary standard for broker/dealers this year? John Taft: They'll propose a rule, ask for comment on that proposed rule, and they're going to do cost-benefit analysis based on that rule, and...
Advisor interest in social media is accelerating across multiple channels, new research by Registered Rep. shows. The two polls of more than 1,400 Rep. readers conducted just six months apart in September 2011 and in March 2012 showed the share of...
Richard Aneser has been hired by Lincoln Financial Distributors to serve as chief marketing officer, a newly created position. He joins from UBS, where he served as managing director and head of advisory and solutions marketing and Wealth...
Commonwealth Financial Network snagged the top spot for the second time in a row in J.D. Power and Associates’ 2012 U.S. Financial Advisor Satisfaction Study, with an overall satisfaction score of 917 out of 1,000.
It has long been debated in this industry whether commission-based advisors are doing what’s in the best interest of their clients, or simply piling them into the investments that gives them the most fees.
