John Poff

• Steady at the Helm

  By Jane Wollman Rusoff  |  June 1, 2007

  As Winston Churchill crisply summed up: "The question which we must ask ourselves is not whether we like or do not like what is going...

• Retiring MSC Chief Reflects on LPL, Future of Small Broker-Dealers

  By Janet Levaux, AdvisorOne  |  May 1, 2007

  Retiring MSC Chief Reflects on LPL, Future of Small Broker-Dealers Mutual Service Corporation, the largest of the three Pacific Life broker-dealers being acquired by LPL with...

• Watch LPL Grow

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

  LPL Financial, the big independent broker/dealer, stamped its seal even more emphatically on the independent B/D universe, and ended speculation over the future of Pacific...

• An Independent Voice

  By Kathleen McBride, AdvisorOne  |  March 1, 2007

  The Financial Services Institute (FSI) kicked off its annual conference at Disney World in Orlando, Florida, on January 29 with the group's new chair, John...

• Mutual Service Corp's Poff to Retire

  By James J. Green, AdvisorOne  |  February 22, 2007

  John Poff, the president and CEO of Mutual Service Corp. and the chair in 2006 of the Financial Services Institute, has announced his retirement from the broker/dealer.

• Growing in Numbers and Influence

  By James J. Green, AdvisorOne  |  January 30, 2007

  Kicking off the annual conference of the Financial Services Institute (FSI) in Orlando on Jan. 29, the new chair of the independent broker/dealer group, John Simmers of ING Advisors Group, listed the accomplishments of FSI since its inception in 2004 and under the tutelage of outgoing chairman John Poff of...

• FSI Names John Simmers of ING as Chairman

  By Staff Writer  |  January 4, 2007

  The Financial Services Institute (FSI) has announced the election of new leaders for 2007. The new Chairman is John Simmers, CEO of El Segundo, California-based ING Advisors Network. Simmers is currently an industry member of the NASD board of governors. In his role with FSI, Simmers succeeds John Poff, president...

• A New SRO's in Town

  By Kathleen McBride, AdvisorOne  |  January 1, 2007

  The move to consolidate two broker/dealer self-regulatory organizations--NASD and the NYSE--and their corresponding and sometimes conflicting sets of rules into one unified SRO has picked...

• Fast Start for the FSI

  By James J. Green, AdvisorOne  |  March 1, 2006

  Greeting attendees at the second annual Financial Services Institute's Broker-Dealer Conference on January 23, conference chair Jeff Montgomery noted that FSI "got here as fast...

• Fast Start for the FSI

  By James J. Green, AdvisorOne  |  January 24, 2006

  Broker/dealer group has made great strides in short amount of time