The entire concept of reverse churning continues to be a head scratcher for us. To quickly recap, first commission based accounts were bad (just ask Tom Buck) but now fee-based…
It always baffles us why advisors make some of the decisions they make. Trying to figure out why a short term cash infusion is worth flushing your career dow the…
Well, that's going to leave a mark. In a fairly innocuous article late last week, newly minted and incoming UBS Wealth Management boss, Iqbal Khan, made it clear that a…
FINRA isn't playing around with 'procedure' infractions as of late. Every "dotted i and crossed t" is to be minded if you want to remain disclosure free. Just this past…
Wells Fargo announced today that they will continue, in perpetuity, the largest recruiting deals on the street. They also reiterated their commitment to significantly reward recruiters for pushing valuable recruits…
In a recent legal decision a JP Morgan Securities advisor defeated the firm in a non-solicit action. If you are scoring at home and remember that JP Morgan just announced…
Wells Fargo continues to be hyper aggressive in its recruiting efforts, and one of their latest moves makes that abundantly clear. Snatching Cinda Collins from the ranks of the recently…
In a short but impassioned conversation with a Morgan Stanley advisor of several decades, we were struck by his understanding of both the 'arc' of the industry and the serious…
The headline might seems obvious, but the day to day walking out of Merrill Lynch as an ancillary division of Bank of America gets uglier every week. This past week…
In October nearly half of an entire UBS office in the suburbs of Columbus, Ohio walked across the street and opened a brand new Morgan Stanley location. That move, and…