LPL

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  LPL Names David Akellian of Century Securities to Head Custom Clearing Unit

  By James J. Green, AdvisorOne  |  June 2, 2011

  Veteran clearing and broker-dealer executive will execute against LPL's strategy to grow its clearing and custody business among insurance, bank and other BDs.

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  LPL IPO: Trading Comes as Deals Flood the Market

  By Joyce Hanson, AdvisorOne  |  November 18, 2010

  In the week that LPL Financial has launched its IPO, the financial services IPO market has returned to a position of strength after passing through an unwelcoming summer period.

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  LPL Assumes IPO Price of $28.50 Per Share

  By James J. Green, AdvisorOne, Janet Levaux, AdvisorOne  |  November 4, 2010

  LPL Financial, the largest independent broker-dealer, filed an amended Form S-1 with the SEC on Wednesday that assumed an IPO price of $28.50 per share for 17,176,195 shares of common stock, though it did not set a date for its much-anticipated IPO.

• Thirty for Thirty

  By Staff Writer  |  May 1, 2010

  We present for your consideration 30 individuals who over the past 30 years--the period in which Investment Advisor has been serving independent and independent-minded advisors--have...

• RIA Growth at LPL

  By James J. Green, AdvisorOne  |  March 1, 2010

  The biggest independent broker/dealer is growing rapidly in another way: as a custodian for advisors that use LPL Financial as the custodian for their RIA...

• LPL Shifts 1,700 Reps Onto Its Own Clearing Platform

  By James J. Green, AdvisorOne  |  July 15, 2009

  Moves advisors from three broker/dealers away from Pershing

• MARKET GONE SOUR? MAKE LEMONADE!

  By Nancy R. Mandell  |  December 1, 2008

  For high-net-worth clients, year-end tax harvesting used to be confined primarily to finding ways to ease the burdens of capital gains. Not this year--which may...

• LPL Names Chief Financial Officer

  By James J. Green, AdvisorOne  |  August 28, 2008

  LPL Financial, the largest independent broker/dealer with over 11,000 representatives, has named Robert Moore as CFO, succeeding Bill Maher.

• Power of the Platform

  By Kara P. Stapleton  |  June 1, 2008

  Schwab, Fidelity, and Pershing have a new competitor, now that LPL Financial has taken what many consider to be the next logical step as the...

• More than Just Clearing

  By Jane Wollman Rusoff  |  April 1, 2008

  Financial advisors are quick to call theirs a people-to-people business; and since they're out on the front lines, that's completely correct. But now some traditionally backstage...