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AMERICA'S TOP ADVISORS

America's Top Financial Advisors

Outstanding Advisors

Registered Rep. teams up with Fortune magazine to present a look at this year’s Top 50 wirehouse advisors, Top 50 independents, and Top 50 RIAs. Rankings based on assets under management.
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Momentum Partners, LLC & Registered Rep

Momentum Partners, LLC & Registered Rep


The development and distribution of financial products has become a new world order. Momentum Partners, LLC and Registered Rep magazine have joined forces to help companies identify the opportunities created by these changes and to capitalize on them.
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Top Story

Sontag Takes McCann’s Job At Merrill

Jan 6, 2009 5:00 PM

Dan Sontag has replaced Robert McCann as head of Merrill Lynch’s brokerage unit. ...

News

Merrill’s McCann Clashed With Thain

Jan 6, 2009 4:46 PM, By John Aidan Byrne

On Monday, Bob McCann, a popular Merrill veteran who led the firm’s 16,850-person “thundering herd” of brokers, resigned. ...

Calling All Outstanding Advisors

Jan 6, 2009 3:09 PM, By David A. Geracioti

We present our annual Outstanding Advisor Awards each May, but we’re always on the lookout for charitably inclined financial advisors. ...

AIG Bailout Unconstitutional?

Dec 23, 2008 12:48 PM, By Halah Touryalai

There have been plenty of arguments against the government bailout of AIG, but religion would appear as an unlikely one. ...

Merrill Tweaks Grid; Lowers It For Smaller FAs

Dec 19, 2008 3:43 PM, By Christina Mucciolo

Merrill Lynch executives Dan Sontag, head of Americas Wealth Management, and John Hogarty, COO, released the 2009 Financial Advisor Comp Plan yesterday afternoon. ...

Have Arthur Levitt's Words Come Back to Haunt Him?

Dec 16, 2008 5:02 PM, By Bill Singer

Mark DeCambre and Kaja Whitehouse published a story today in the New York Post titled: “Ex-SEC Boss: Not My Fault,” which opened a window onto the thoughts of those charged with regulating Wall Street. ...

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Wealth Management

Are Small IBDs Next On The Chopping Block?

Dec 17, 2008 2:22 PM, By Christina Mucciolo

Some independent b/ds have already benefitted from the damage done to the reputations of wirehouses in the credit crunch by gaining assets and advisors....

Discussing Your Clients’ Frugal Future

Dec 10, 2008 11:43 AM, By John Churchill

As the market dips yet again following another fitful rally, reality has been setting in for most Americans: We’re in a recession—and the gilded age of credit-fueled lifestyles and profits is over. ...

Branch Management

Helping Advisors Talk Clients Down Off The Ledge

Oct 9, 2008 11:56 AM, By Susan Konig

After an absolutely dizzying few weeks on Wall Street—which have included a chain of bank failures and near failures, several uncertain rescue attempts and the largest one-day point drop in the Dow Jones Industrial Average ever—financial advisors and investors are exhausted. ...

Regulators’ Top Ten Problems List

Sep 12, 2008 11:52 AM, By Susan Konig

Lehman Brothers is on the ropes, and other financial firms are reeling....

Practice Management

Winning In Tough Times: Part 3 (Offense Bonus - Advisor Trust Factor On The Rise!)

Nov 20, 2008 11:14 AM, By Matt Oechsli

Dallas: "Even though I feel like we're reacting non-stop to incoming calls," says David, "It seems that every time I'm having a conversation with my better clients—and they're not usually the ones calling in—they're inquiring about how I'm doing, but not giving me any referrals."...

Winning In Tough Times: Part 2

Nov 6, 2008 10:30 AM, By Matt Oechsli

Nashville: "I'm getting killed, my fee-based revenue is way down, my deferred stock that I've been planning on retiring on is in the toilet. And, with the non-stop incoming calls, I don't have the time or energy to meet with my clients," moaned Sam. ...

TIC Directory

Only the Strong Survive

Nov 4, 2008 4:48 PM, By Beth Mattson-Teig

Financing hurdles slow tenant-in-common deals, sidelining a growing number of sponsors....



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Current Issue

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Dear Management, Thanks For Nothing.

By Christina Mucciolo
December 1, 2008

In our 18th annual Broker Report Card survey, wirehouse FAs say they are fed up with management ruining their excellent franchises and platforms. Will the great advisor diaspora begin?



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