Eric Meyers

• 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...

• Editor's Note: What If You Held a Party for 3,000 People and Everyone Showed?

  By John Sullivan, AdvisorOne  |  September 1, 2010

  Summer doldrums? Hardly. We were busy all last month collecting beer and bubbly for our dual anniversaries in the September issue. The first marks Investment...

• Is Consolidation Finally Here?

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

  In what could be further evidence of consolidation in the independent broker/dealer space--or of the enhanced value that winning Investment Advisor's Broker/Dealer of the Year...

• Securian to Acquire Capital Financial Group/H. Beck

  By James J. Green, AdvisorOne  |  September 11, 2008

  In what could be further evidence of consolidation in the independent broker/dealer space--or of the enhanced value that winning Investment Advisor's Broker/Dealer of the Year brings to honorees--another mid-sized independent B/D has been acquired by one of its larger brethren.

• Independents' Optimism

  By Kathleen McBride, AdvisorOne  |  June 1, 2008

  Since the leaders of the Investment Advisor Broker/Dealers of the Year last met with the IA editorial team for an intense roundtable, in August 2007,...

• Around the Table

  By Kathleen McBride, AdvisorOne  |  September 1, 2007

  It's no surprise that regulation remains the greatest challenge for leaders of the 2007 Investment Advisor Broker/Dealers of the Year, flanked by recruiting, transitioning to...

• Leading the Way

  By James J. Green, AdvisorOne  |  September 1, 2007

  The representatives of independent broker/dealers are fiercely independent people who utterly reject the drawbacks (and benefits) of the wirehouse employee broker model. As independent reps,...

• A Great Business to Be In

  By James J. Green, AdvisorOne  |  September 1, 2007

  If there was an overriding theme voiced by the leaders of the 2007 Broker/Dealers of the Year in an editorial roundtable discussion in Chicago on...