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INDEPENDENT BROKER DEALERS AUG 31, 2010
MaxxTrade the latest B-D to go belly-up

Another small broker-dealer has been shut down, with this one owing $1.2 million in damages and legal fees imposed on it in a recent arbitration decision.

By Bruce Kelly
INDEPENDENT BROKER DEALERS AUG 26, 2010
Advisers on the Move: Raymond James recruits $1M producers from Wells Fargo

Steve Jones and Seth Gunderson have formed Tenacity Investment Group in Longmont, Colo.

By Mark Bruno
INDEPENDENT BROKER DEALERS AUG 05, 2010
LPL picks bad time to go public

If LPL decides to launch anytime soon — as of yet, no date has been set — it will be doing so smack dab in the middle of an incredibly difficult market for IPOs in general and financial services stocks in particular.

By Bruce Kelly
INDEPENDENT BROKER DEALERS AUG 02, 2010
High-profile HighTower attracts controversy as well as brokers

When HighTower Advisors LLC was launched in 2008, its pedigree and promise caught the industry's attention and the interest of a number of highly successful advisers.

By Bruce Kelly
INDEPENDENT BROKER DEALERS JUL 28, 2010
Charles Goldman to leave Fidelity

Recruited from Charles Schwab Corp., Mr. Goldman will be leaving Fidelity after just one year.

By Jed Horowitz
INDEPENDENT BROKER DEALERS JUL 22, 2010
Penson buys Ridge clearing business for $35 million

The deal adds about 100 Ridge clients to Penson's base of 297 brokerage firms, making it the second largest correspondent clearing firm in the securities industry.

By Bloomberg
INDEPENDENT BROKER DEALERS JUL 22, 2010
What LPL's IPO reveals about indie broker-dealers

When it comes to controlling client assets, LPL Investment Holdings Inc.'s recent IPO registration offers clear proof that the remaining four wirehouse broker-dealers still dwarf the more diverse galaxy of independent broker-dealers.

By Bruce Kelly
LPL's Mark Casady: Five more years
INDEPENDENT BROKER DEALERS JUL 22, 2010
LPL's Mark Casady: Five more years

LPL Investment Holdings Inc. today said it has sealed the deal with the executive who has overseen the company's growth and its march to an IPO.

By Bruce Kelly
INDEPENDENT BROKER DEALERS JUL 19, 2010
Advisers on the Move: $700M ING team moves to Triad

Gitterman & Associates, a 10-person team in Georgia, has found a new home.

By Mark Bruno
INDEPENDENT BROKER DEALERS JUN 29, 2010
Lightyear wraps up purchase of ING B-Ds, re-brands group Cetera

Private-equity firm Lightyear Capital LLC today announced that it has completed its acquisition of three ING Groep NV broker-dealers.

By John Goff
Another indie broker-dealer is closing up shop
INDEPENDENT BROKER DEALERS JUN 28, 2010
Another indie broker-dealer is closing up shop

Another independent broker-dealer is shutting down — this time, so its parent company can refocus on its insurance business.

By Bruce Kelly
INDEPENDENT BROKER DEALERS JUN 20, 2010
LPL's Mark Casady: Five more years

LPL Investment Holdings Inc. last week said that it has sealed the deal with the executive who has overseen the company's growth and its march to an IPO.

By Bruce Kelly
INDEPENDENT BROKER DEALERS JUN 15, 2010
LPL hit with class action over broker's sale of annuities

A pair of Nebraska investors have filed a class-action lawsuit against LPL Financial, saying that one of the company's brokers misled them about the costs and benefits of annuities.

By Associated Press
Broker-dealers dumbfounded by private-placement subpoenas
INDEPENDENT BROKER DEALERS JUN 09, 2010
Broker-dealers dumbfounded by private-placement subpoenas

Earlier this week, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth William Galvin sent subpoenas to six firms, requesting info on high-risk offerings. Execs at several of the firms still aren't exactly sure why they were contacted

By Bruce Kelly
INDEPENDENT BROKER DEALERS JUN 08, 2010
Ex-Raymond James exec sues, says he was fired after chemo

A former executive at Raymond James & Associates Inc. sued the company for $6 million, claiming he was fired after falling asleep as a result of chemotherapy.

By Bloomberg
INDEPENDENT BROKER DEALERS JUN 03, 2010
Indie B-D lures top reps — with a twist

Plying a path that sometimes has proven perilous, DeWaay Financial is staking its claim in the marketplace by offering financial advisers and their wealthy clients access to high-stakes private-equity, venture-capital and investment-banking deals.

By Bruce Kelly
INDEPENDENT BROKER DEALERS MAY 27, 2010
Top wirehouse brokers snub indie broker-dealers

Despite all the hoopla about breakaway brokers, most of the wirehouse representatives going to independent broker-dealers are relatively low producers who fit the B-Ds' packaged-product and fee-based model.

By Dan Jamieson
INDEPENDENT BROKER DEALERS MAY 27, 2010
Broker recruiting gets 'rational'

Big brokerage firms appear to have taken a break from their costly musical-chairs game of broker recruitment, according to executives and headhunters.

By Jed Horowitz and Hilary Johnson
INDEPENDENT BROKER DEALERS MAY 21, 2010
DeWaay lands another top indie rep

Upstart independent broker-dealer DeWaay Financial Network LLC has landed another top independent registered rep.

By Bruce Kelly
INDEPENDENT BROKER DEALERS MAY 11, 2010
Regal Financial and its 100 advisers bolt from AIG's SagePoint

In a huge blow to SagePoint Financial Inc., one of three broker-dealers that make up the AIG Advisor Group Inc., its largest group of reps and advisers is walking out the door following a bitter dispute over group's role and future at SagePoint.

By Bruce Kelly