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Cetera Shuttering Broker-Dealer, Pushing Out Some Reps

17:47 31 July in In the News by rafferty

July 30, 2015 By Janet Levaux, ThinkAdvisor   Recruiter says about half of the J.P. Turner advisors have been invited to join Summit Brokerage Cetera Financial Group says it has moved to close an independent broker-dealer it acquired in 2014, mainly due to issues regarding its main clearing partner. “Cetera Financial Group is winding down J.P. Turner in order to enable advisors at that firm to more rapidly access the full range of services and support our network offers through Pershing,” said CEO Larry Roth in a statement shared with ThinkAdvisor late Thursday. When it became clear that Pershing would not add J.P. Turner to its clearing platform, advisors decided it made sense for the roughly 300 J.P. Turner reps to move to Summit Brokerage Services, another BD acquired last year by Cetera’s parent firm, RCS Capital (RCAP). According...

Cetera closing J.P. Turner, offering some brokers jobs at Summit

20:10 30 July in In the News by rafferty

July 30, 2015 Bruce Kelly, Investment News   CEO Larry Roth claims move is not part of any widespread consolidation Cetera Financial Group is closing down one of its broker-dealers, J.P. Turner & Co., and inviting select advisers to join another of its firms. Over the past few weeks, about half of the 300 advisers at J.P. Turner & Co. have been invited to move to Summit Brokerage Services Inc., another Cetera broker-dealer, according to several brokerage executives and industry recruiters. The remainder of the J.P. Turner reps not going to Summit are scattering across the industry, industry executives and recruiters said. RCS Capital Corp., or RCAP, acquired J.P. Turner and Summit in 2014, placing them under the Cetera umbrella. Both acquisitions were part of a buying binge of independent broker-dealers led by Nicholas Schorsch, RCAP's largest...

Head of Lincoln’s IBD Steps Down to Lead ProEquities

19:55 29 July in In the News by rafferty

July 28, 2015 By Diana Britton, WealthManagement.com   Christopher Flint has stepped down from his role as president of Lincoln Financial’s independent broker/dealer arm to serve as ProEquities’ new president and CEO. ProEquities, an independent b/d in Birmingham, Ala., has about 1,000 advisors and is owned by Protective Life Corporation. Flint has been with Lincoln for the last nine years, most recently as head of Lincoln Financial Securities and head of Lincoln Financial Network’s advisor recruitment and acquisition strategies. Prior to that, he served as senior vice president of branch office development at Securities America. Earlier this year, Protective Life was acquired by The Dai-ichi Life Insurance Company, a Japan-based private sector life insurer.    ...

LPL Financial Pays to Bring Assets Over

20:16 15 June in In the News by rafferty

June 2015 issue of Rep Magazine By Megan Leonhardt   The independent broker/dealer is taking steps to boost its fee-based and advisory business. LPL Financial is offering its hybrid advisors up to $100,000 to shift their assets held elsewhere to LPL’s advisory platforms, according to an internal communication. The firm is rolling out a new Off Platform Asset Conversion Program, which aims to assist dually registered, or hybrid, advisors—defined as those that operate an independent RIA and use the broker/dealer–in transitioning their assets held at other custodians and third-party investment advisor, such as AssetMark and Envestnet, to the firm’s advisory platforms. “We feel LPL has the best custody platform in the industry, and we are proud that our advisors custody the majority of their client assets with LPL,” the firm said in a statement. “Many RIA firms are...