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Adam Honoré: The reason you’d want Merrill Lynch is that you’d want access to their advisors and to their training.

Why the launch of Merrill Edge may be a shrewder move by BoA than it first appears

Success will depend on how closely BoA/Merrill Lynch can tie the new online brokerage to its full-service offering

June 21, 2010 at 6:19 AM

Alois Pirker: Wirehouses are watching the breakaway movement slowly and are likely to adapt. "They're not stupid."

Study: Breakaway trend may slow as wirehouse mergers start to click

To keep brokers, some wirehouses may offer more independent platforms

June 1, 2010 at 5:27 AM

Craig Gordon: We have 2,400 in-house advisors. It would be very different if I told you it was 24,000. The commitment in that channel would be too big to disrupt..

Royal Bank of Canada is hustling to become an RIA custody force

RBC Advisor Services weaves together RIA businesses of old Dain Rauscher and old Bear Stearns

May 24, 2010 at 5:50 AM

The breakaway team held conference calls with LPL in David Armstrong's car.

Two years later, a Merrill Lynch breakaway team has no regrets

No one took a pay cut, no one is answering to a manager anymore, and there's never a question about buying a stapler

May 21, 2010 at 4:40 AM

Mindy Diamond: The biggest concern seems to be that Goldman has been described as 'betting against ... (clients).' Those words are not what a client wants to associate with the firm that manages their investments.

Goldman Sachs' wealth managers are taking recruiters' phone calls amid concerns over scandal fallout

The 'betting-against' allegations have some brokers fearful about their ability to attract new prospects

May 3, 2010 at 6:13 AM

Bill Whitney: Everybody at a wirehouse has reached a gag threshold and is looking for an exit with few exceptions.

UBS brokers break away Mississippi style and a bass-fishing ex-Merrill broker comes out of retirement

Leaving the wirehouse was made easier by a truism of the folksy state: clients would be offended not to be asked to follow

April 28, 2010 at 6:09 AM

Barron's Top 100 advisors paid for their own Ritz-Carlton rooms but didn't seem to mind

Enthusiasm simmers in the wake of the by-invite-only Barron's Top 100 conference

The purity of the all-independent crowd was palpable, powerful for attendees

April 26, 2010 at 5:15 AM

Red Goldstein: All we have ever known in the financial business is folks leaving one wirehouse to go to another wirehouse.

This Merrill Lynch team leader broke away for fear of what might happen under Bank of America

Red Goldstein loved Merrill Lynch but he deemed any chance of increased restrictions too risky to his business model

April 20, 2010 at 7:38 AM

Fred Tomczyk told Reuters: E*Trade 'is on a better footing today than they were a year or two ago, no question.

Analysts issue opinions on Merrill Lynch and TD Ameritrade based on new information

Merrill Lynch or another wirehouse, not a discount broker, should acquire E*Trade, researcher says

April 19, 2010 at 7:26 AM

Carol Fabbri: We tell clients if the want to chase the next big thing, they should take 10% of their money and go to Vegas.

Breakaway spotlight: Former Merrill Lynch broker uses just-the-facts approach to win business of scientists, engineers

Two MIT grads do the math for clients, including numbers that show 401(k)s lacking

March 24, 2010 at 5:10 AM

David Hou and Mark Sear  believe cold calls have a place at an RIA.

Hou-Sear team applies Goldman Sachs marketing approach in second year as RIAs

Luminous Capital uses intensive cold-calling and a breakaway strategy to augment giant referral flow

February 16, 2010 at 5:01 PM

Chet Helck: We are still attracting top-tier advisors

Raymond James wins breakaway brokers that are 'pragmatists'

With the get-me-out-of-here mentality mostly gone, a breakaway of a more deliberate stripe steps forward, recruiter says

February 13, 2010 at 6:20 AM

Frank Shull: Our pipeline is very full.

Focus Financial looks more like a consolidator-of-consolidators as its partner firms go on buying sprees

Lara, Shull pulls off five deals to nearly double its assets in a year

February 9, 2010 at 5:36 AM

Brooke Southall: The Custody Project has grown to do justice to the scope and quality of the material it covers

Asset Custody Project rolls forward

The scope of the RIABiz plan for 2009 recaps and 2010 outlooks of RIA custodians took on a life of its own

February 1, 2010 at 6:09 AM

Patrick J. Burns: I'm not sure the SEC or FINRA has the stomach for a return to the days of heavy litigation.

Broker Protocol may be endangered by complexities as membership starts to explode

Merrill Lynch, LPL and Ameriprise create addendums to once-sacred truce; they may spark an unfavorable trend

January 29, 2010 at 4:59 AM

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