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LPL Looks Beyond Indie Roots with New Employee Channel

20:20 23 May in In the News by rafferty

May 22, 2019 by Mason Braswell and Jed Horowitz, AdvisorHUB   LPL Financial, the nation’s largest independent broker-dealer, will use its acquisition of Allen & Co. of Florida to seed a new business channel of brokers who work as full-time employees, executives said on Wednesday. LPL announced its plan to buy Allen, which has about 30 brokers servicing $3 billion of client assets, after the market closed on Tuesday. It followed Wednesday with an outline of how it hopes to attract advisors from traditional firms with higher payouts, albeit fewer services, than they are used to.“This is the largest segment of the marketplace, and one we have not traditionally pursued,” LPL business development head Richard Steinmeier said at LPL’s Investor Day presentation in New York on Wednesday. Steinmeierjoined LPL last year from UBS Financial Services,...

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Advisor Group CEO Opens Up About Reverence Deal, Brown’s Departure

16:29 13 May in In the News by rafferty

May 10, 2019 By Janet Levaux, ThinkAdvisor Price talked with ThinkAdvisor about the sale and explained why Valerie Brown will leave Advisor Group. Advisor Group CEO Jamie Price had quite a week, wrapping up the sale of the 75% of the firm to private-equity group Reverence Capital Partners from Lightyear Capital, PSP Investments and others. After Thursday’s announcement, Price answered questions on Friday about the deal and shared his thoughts on what it means for the company he leads, which includes FSC Securities, Royal Alliance Associates, SagePoint Financial and Woodbury Financial Services, and what it says about the independent broker-dealer industry. Price’s conversation with ThinkAdvisor has been lightly edited for clarity. What is Advisor Group’s retention-bonus plan? “As part of this transaction, we will be working closely with Reverence Capital to launch an advisor recognition and retention program,...