Articles tagged "LPL Financial"
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LPL Financial jumps into the full-service brokerage business via acquisition -- with help from Raymond James' Silver Lane Advisors
The San Diego-based independent broker-dealer will pilot captive model with purchase of $3-billion, 30-broker Allen & Co. as launching pad
May 22, 2019 at 2:31 AM
LPL shares skyrocket 13% to record gain, topping out at $83.60, after CEO proclaims 'cultural' revolution, reveals plan to squeeze ETF providers and gets $30B of recruited assets 'digitally'
LPL Financial adds near $1B in market cap after Dan Arnold says ETF commissions will drop 80% with revenue made up by selling shelf space to ETF makers
May 6, 2019 at 3:56 PM
CEO Robert Moore's abrupt departure from Cetera for 'health reasons' throws dark clouds over ambitious expansion plans for star-crossed broker-dealer
The official version is health concerns but people close to the firm cite Moore cross swords with Genstar; ex-Schwabbie Ben Brigeman steps in as CEO search launches
February 20, 2019 at 7:24 PM
LPL Financial shares zoom to all-time high of $77, after new CEO lets brokers sell like hell, and RIA custody and OSJ contracts achieve new balance
Dan Arnold steers Fort Mill, S.C. IBD giant on walk-and-chew-gum course that allows for juicing annuity sales, rebuilding RIA fee platform and squeezing more profits from less revenue
February 7, 2019 at 12:13 AM
LPL Financial's $28 million cash purchase of AdvisoryWorld solves one big problem: Now it can make sure the proposal software includes annuities in its proposals
The Fort Mill, S.C.-based IBD is the No. 1 annuity distributor in the United States but it still cranks out proposals focused on stock/bond allocations
December 4, 2018 at 10:46 PM
With his CEO hell-bent for election, Bronfman Rothschild president Michael LaMena reunites Fortigent's terrible two with a key poach
Neal Simon is running for U.S. Senate as an independent, an unusual risk; he also took precautions to make sure his $6.1B RIA roll-up finds its feet regardless of the mood of the Maryland electorate
November 5, 2018 at 8:06 PM
LPL Financial markets itself as a savior to reps at 14 IBD firms under the 'precarious' spell of private equity investors, despite its own private equity past
Recruiters pan rhetoric of the Fort Mill, S.C.-based independent broker-dealer for willfully talking past the heavy hand of private equity in their pre-IPO years -- and their own retention and service challenges
October 1, 2018 at 6:20 AM
LPL Financial hires new 'digital' head of recruiting -- IBM exec Scott Posner -- after the old school approach was leaking oil
Pre-IBM, Scott Posner spent 17 years at BNY Mellon where he rose to executive vice president leading the company’s strategic Initiatives group, reporting to the President
September 26, 2018 at 5:25 PM
After RIA private equity hot-shot Genstar's $1.7 billion purchase of ugly duckling Cetera, Robert Moore plans to take on LPL--not with acquisitions, but a recruitment storm
Genstar bought a majority share in Cetera in July for a rumored $1.7 billion; now Genstar MD Tony Salewski and ex-LPL President and Cetera CEO Robert Moore have put ramping up the rep count front-and-center in their plans to turn the long-troubled IBD ugly duckling into a market giant at LPL's expense.
August 15, 2018 at 12:35 AM
LPL issues urgent warning to RIAs: The SEC wolf blew down its home-office door and is combing through records for evidence of mutual fund share class misuse
Andy Kalbaugh emailed a letter to LPL advisors that file their own ADVs as a sort of fair-warning heads up
July 25, 2018 at 10:37 PM
LPL Financial is latest to go the 'risk number' route by signing deal with LifeYield, which signed a Riskalyze deal in February
The Fort Mill, S.C.-based IBD will use the software to help advisors arbitrage between taxable and non-taxable accounts to minimize the bite of the IRS
May 30, 2018 at 8:14 PM
LPL shares skyrocket near to $72 after signaling to Wall Street a cheaper, better way to lure assets and advisors
The Fort Mill, S.C.-based firm may cut salaries and commissions to recruiters and give advisors more benefits directly
May 22, 2018 at 4:12 PM
Derek Bruton joins Keith Gregg as Chalice Wealth Partners makes urgent Dynasty-lite bid bolstered by $4.5 million and Aaron Schumm
The two San Diegans of LPL and First Allied fame are hungry for success and redemption after a few stop-and-go years
May 4, 2018 at 10:30 PM
LPL Financial pulls pricing lever after Bill Hamm moves to yank $12 billion and 500 advisors off the IBD's line
The CEO of Independent Financial Partners will take 12 months move the asset trove to his own broker-dealer giving LPL time to woo reps looking for the door
May 3, 2018 at 10:01 PM
LPL Financial wages 'war' on Cetera, Securities America and Kestra after they pounced on NPH advisors in wake of sale
Unheard-of packages, tight targeting and unusual timing rock recruiters who marvel at the competitive behavior that has Bill Morrissey escalating an epic battle
