2011 Broker Dealers of the Year

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  2011 Broker-Dealers of the Year: Take Charge—Video

  By John Sullivan, AdvisorOne  |  August 25, 2011

  Our Broker-Dealer of the Year survey is entering its third decade, and a more challenging time for independent broker-dealers and advisors—volatile markets, regulation, fee compression, a hyper-charged political environment—is difficult to remember.

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  What Reps Want From Their Independent BDs

  By John Sullivan, AdvisorOne, James J. Green, AdvisorOne  |  August 24, 2011

  In Investment Advisor's 21st annual readers' poll, the products and services that reps wish their BDs would provide.

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  Where Would Reps Go if They Were to Leave Their Current BD?

  By John Sullivan, AdvisorOne, James J. Green, AdvisorOne  |  August 24, 2011

  If reps could affiliate with another broker-dealer, the 453 voters who answered the ballot question said they would go to:

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  2011 Broker-Dealers of the Year: The Runners Up

  By John Sullivan, AdvisorOne, James J. Green, AdvisorOne  |  August 24, 2011

  More than 5,000 valid votes were cast in this year's Broker-Dealer of the Year balloting. Here are the second- and third-place BDs in our annual readers' poll.

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  Take Charge: The 2011 Broker-Dealers of the Year

  By John Sullivan, AdvisorOne  |  August 24, 2011

  Announcing the 21st annual Investment Advisor Broker-Dealers of the Year, with insights from the leaders of 2011's winning BDs.

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  2011 Broker-Dealers of the Year—Slideshow

  By John Sullivan, AdvisorOne, James J. Green, AdvisorOne  |  August 18, 2011

  Get to know the winners of the 2011 Broker-Dealers of the Year

• Optimists: The 20th Annual Broker/Dealers of the Year

  By James J. Green, AdvisorOne, John Sullivan, AdvisorOne  |  September 1, 2010

  Our Broker/Dealer of the Year survey has come of age. Twenty years of change, innovation, regulation, boom, bust (and boom again) in the independent...

• Chosen: 2009 Broker/Dealers of the Year

  By James J. Green, AdvisorOne  |  September 1, 2009

  These are interesting times. If you think you have it tough as an independent advisor, imagine for a moment that you are running an independent...

• You're the Tops—2008 Broker-Dealers of the Year

  By James J. Green, AdvisorOne  |  September 1, 2008

  In this, the 18th year that Investment Advisor readers have chosen Broker/Dealers of the Year, it's not easy to be any kind of broker/dealer. On...