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19Mar

Five habits of highly successful millennial advisors

By Louis Diamond An aging advisor population has highlighted the need to increase the ranks of next-generation (‘next-gen’) advisor talent.…

11Mar

Wells Fargo Advisors sweetens the pot for both older and younger advisers

Louis Diamond Quoted By Bruce Kelly After bleeding advisers for more than two years, Wells Fargo Advisors is changing its…

07Mar

Wells Fargo Will Give FAs Bigger Rewards for a Warm Hand-Off

Barbara Herman Quoted By Miriam Rozen To boost its recruiting and retention efforts, Wells Fargo Advisors has announced that, effective April 1,…

05Mar

What Makes a Financial Advisor a “True” Fiduciary?

By Mindy Diamond While wirehouse advisors may have every intention of acting as a fiduciary and making decisions with their…

25Feb

Are Wirehouses Paving Their Own Pathway to Independence?

By Mindy Diamond Wirehouse advisors seeking independence may not have to break away. They can operate as “captive independents” within…

22Feb

Equitize Your Exit: How to Make Your Remaining Years Count

Webinar featuring Louis Diamond Many financial advisors don't have a succession plan for themselves. Louis Diamond joins host Chris Holman (Executive…

22Feb

Will Wirehouses Thwart FA Flight to Independence by Less Grid Tinkering?

Barbara Herman Quoted By Miriam Rozen Last October, almost three weeks before Merrill Lynch Wealth Management’s Andy Sieg disclosed that his wirehouse’s 2019…

20Feb

Will Wells Fargo’s RIA Offering Cannibalize its Advisor Ranks?

Barbara Herman Quoted By Miriam Rozen Wirehouse Wells Fargo recently unveiled the identities of the first two advisors to join its new…

19Feb

Shirl Penney flies south, taking Dynasty Financial Partners to St. Petersburg in advance of a hiring spree, but won’t kiss-off the Big Apple just yet

Louis Diamond Quoted By Brooke Southall If you can make it in the Big Apple, you can really kill it…

06Feb

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

Louis Diamond Quoted By Lisa Shidler LPL Financial stock soared to an all-time of $77 a share, Feb. 5, on a resounding Wall…

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Lisa Van Walleghem MAXIMAI - Mindy Diamond on Independence for Financial Advisors

Independence for Advisors with an Offshore Client Base

Merrill breakaway Lisa Van Walleghem of MAXIMAI shares why leaving the once “great school of experience” with a globally diverse book to form her own independent firm was the best way to serve her UHNW offshore clients and grow her business. Listen…