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The latest from our podcast series for financial advisors
A Lawyer’s Advice on How to Protect Your Business Now and Into the Future
In light of the COVID-19 crisis, attorney David Gehn shares actionable advice for advisors including how to avoid risk, manage transitions and renegotiate promissory notes/EFLs, plus challenges RIAs are facing and relief programs. 
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On Weathering the Storm
In these unprecedented and challenging times, Mindy Diamond searches for how best to add value. She found these 10 ways to refocus energy and attention helpful in moving forward on a more positive path. Listen…
In the News
The Playbook for Keeping Older Rainmakers Working
March 25, 2020 Louis Diamond Quoted By Gary Stern RIAs must do more to retain talented older advisors. The average…
Read MoreThe Ripple Effects on Independent B/Ds in the Post-COVID-19 World
March 25, 2020 By Louis Diamond Eight ways the coronavirus pandemic will change the relationship between advisors and their IBD…
Read MoreManaging Your Business Life in Uncertain Times
While there is much financial advisors cannot control about their professional trajectory at the moment, there are some important points…
Read MorePrivate Advisor Group Firm Snags $170 Million Advisor From Northwestern Mutual
Louis Diamond Quoted By Asia Martin Bleakley Financial, a firm affiliated with Private Advisor Group, an office of supervisory jurisdiction…
Read MoreAfter 52 Years at Merrill, Duo Producing $7.5 Million Goes Indie with RayJay
March 3, 2020 By Mason Braswell Two lifetime Merrill Lynch brokers in Alexandria, Virginia, who said they had been generating…
Read MoreWhich Indie B-Ds Are Winning the Recruiting Wars (And Why)
February 28, 2020 Louis Diamond Quoted By Mrinalini Krishna As advisors walk away from wirehouses, independent broker-dealers have been welcoming…
Read MoreAnywhere But Here: Why Wirehouse Advisors Jump to Other Channels
February 27, 2020 Louis Diamond Quoted By Mrinalini Krishna, Miriam Rozen Wirehouses continue to lose advisors, and the teams that…
Read MoreRising Loan Levels Reflect Big Recruiting Push At Stifel, LPL
February 26, 2020 Louis Diamond Quoted By Mrinalini Krishna Big jumps in advisor loans reported by and LPL Financial reflect concentrated recruiting efforts…
Read MoreDash to cash: Focus moves away from equity-based deals
February 25, 2020 Louis Diamond Quoted By Ian Wenik For Focus Financial Partners, money talks. In new financial data unveiled…
Read MoreSanctuary Wealth adds $250m Merrill breakaway in Houston
February 25, 2020 By Ian Wenik A $250m Merrill Lynch advisory team has broken away to set up its own…
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