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LPL video about private equity looks like a swipe at Cetera

18:59 22 September in In the News by rafferty

September 21, 2018 By Bruce Kelly, Investment News Recruiting video warns about potential consequences for advisers when a PE firm buys a broker-dealer LPL Financial appears to be dissing its rivals, including Cetera Financial Group, in a video that is making the rounds of social media sites such as LinkedIn with the title, "How Financial Advisers Can Be Impacted by Private Equity Ownership." LPL, which formerly was owned by private-equity firms, is now oddly warning of the dire consequences for financial advisers if their broker-dealer is bought by such investors. The timing of LPL's video, which is almost four minutes long and makes no direct mention of Cetera or other firms, is curious. While private-equity manager have bought a variety of broker-dealer over the years, Cetera Financial Group, a network of six independent broker-dealers with about...

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As Scandals Keep Coming, Wells Fargo Names New FiNet Managers

16:57 28 August in In the News by rafferty

August 27, 2018 By Janet Levaux, ThinkAdvisor Wells Fargo will likely face recruiting difficulties “until the bad news is flushed out,” recruiter Jon Henschen says.   As departures continue at Wells Fargo Advisors in the wake of scandals at its parent company and within its own operations, the unit is reworking some of the leadership at its independent advisor channel — WFA Financial Network, or FiNet. On Monday, FiNet named Tim Boostrom — the former head of national recruiting for the indie channel — as the regional head of FiNet’s Southeast operations. Joe Gianino, who led FiNet’s business development group for nearly five years, was tapped as regional head of the Great Lakes. According to Wells Fargo, the ex-head of FiNet in the Southeast — Charles Cornett — left for another firm. But the former Great Lakes...

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Cambridge Investment Research bags mid-sized broker-dealer

16:47 21 August in In the News by rafferty

August 20, 2018 By Bruce Kelly, Investment News Broker Dealer Financial Services, an IBD with 150 reps and advisers, and $3.5 billion in assets, will become a Cambridge OSJ   The consolidation of the brokerage industry continues, and in the latest deal Cambridge Investment Research Inc., one of the largest independent contractor firms, said on Monday it had acquired Broker Dealer Financial Services Corp., a mid-sized firm with about 150 reps and advisers, $3.5 billion in assets and $20 million in annual revenues. Broker Dealer Financial Services, or BDFS, will become an enterprise branch, called a "super OSJ" for office of supervisory jurisdiction, of Cambridge, according to a letter sent Monday to Cambridge's 3,956 reps and advisers from the firm's senior management. Both firms are based in Iowa. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Independent brokers...

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The Tragic Decline of Music Literacy (and Quality)

17:35 20 August in Articles Written by Jon Henschen by rafferty

By Jon Henschen August 16, 2018, Intellectual Takeout Throughout grade school and high school, I was fortunate to participate in quality music programs. Our high school had a top Illinois state jazz band; I also participated in symphonic band, which gave me a greater appreciation for classical music. It wasn’t enough to just read music. You would need to sight read, meaning you are given a difficult composition to play cold, without any prior practice. Sight reading would quickly reveal how fine-tuned playing “chops” really were. In college I continued in a jazz band and also took a music theory class. The experience gave me the ability to visualize music (If you play by ear only, you will never have that same depth of understanding music construct.) Both jazz and classical art forms require not...