The relationship between advisors and clients is changing and it is important that advisors not only understand the current playing field but prepare for the new game ahead. Recent statistics reported by the Wall Street Journal show that advisor fees are dipping below 1%, driven primarily by emerging technology and millennial customers.
Wells Fargo is under siege from every angle and it is easy to understand why. The mountain of corporate missteps, questionable ethics, and outright fraud have resulted in a series of investigations and fines for the once storied wirehouse, the ramifications of which have yet to be fully realized.
LPL Financial wants to have it all and that, as it turns out, just may be its Achilles heel. The missteps by the nation’s number one broker dealer have their roots in 2017.
Raymond James welcomed financial advisors Thomas O’Neill, Jessica O’Neill, CFP®, and Thomas O’Neill Jr. to Raymond James & Associates (RJA) – the firm’s traditional employee broker/dealer – in Mount Laurel, New Jersey, according to Tom Galvin, Northeast regional director for RJA.
The financial services industry is constantly evolving and the firms committed to being successful within it must be equally change resilient.
The financial services industry is changing, as evidenced by numerous data points released in the 2018 FINRA Industry Snapshot. Among the report’s statistical highlights, industry-wide topline growth rose a remarkable 14% over the past two years to $309 billion.
