The Top-Ranked Advisor Teams in America (Research Mag)

Where Reps Would Go (Investment Advisor) - The year 2009 marked the 19th time that Investment Advisor asked its readers who are representatives of independent broker/dealers to rank their own B/Ds on 14 discrete categories, along with an overall rating.

Where Representatives Would Go (Investment Advisor)

• LPL Financial 28.8%
• Commonwealth Financial 17.3%
• Raymond James 8.5%
• Cambridge Investment Research 7.1%

Three key tips to referral-sales success (Bank Advisor Magazine)

Recruiting Games (Registered Rep) - A ten-year veteran of a large wirehouse firm says he's solicited regularly about switching firms. I pay attention to the deals. I'm curious to know what they're offering. I'm not really ready to move, but they keep trying, he says. Of course they do. With trailing 12-months production of $2 million and about $400 million in client assets under management, it's no wonder he's popular with the competition.

The List: Top 100 Wirehouse Advisors in America | Assests under management (Registered Rep)

Schapiro Message to B-D CEOs: Watch Your Recruiting Tactics (Research Mag) - Broker-dealers must fulfill their supervisory duties and compliance role as they make upfront and ongoing promises to advisors.

Advisers all a-twitter over online networking? Hardly, IN survey reveals (Investment News)

Making the grade: Investors can rate advisers on new website (InvestmentNews.com Latest Headlines)

Advisors Don't Get Services They Want (FA Mag) - Financial company executives continue to misread the types of practice management and technical support programs their advisors truly want, according to a new survey.

STREET MOVES: Merrill Lynch Hires Financial Advisers (Wealth Bulletin) Merrill Lynch Global Wealth Management, a unit of Bank of America Corp., recently recruited 11 financial advisers from competitors including Morgan Stanley Smith Barney, UBS AG and Wells Fargo & Co. On Aug. 14, John Licciardello, Charles Wharton and Joel Raskin joined Merrill Lynch's Providence, R.I., office from UBS Wealth Management US. The three advisers together had $1.6 million in annual production and managed $207 million in client assets.

Sales Assistant Gone Wild (Registered Rep) - Advisors might think twice about taking a Friday off and leaving your book in the hands of your “capable” sales assistant (or client associate—whatever firms call trusted SAs these days).