Mark Elzweig Company

• BDs Share Latest FA

  By Janet Levaux  |  April 29, 2013

  In early April, Baird said it recruited a team of seven employee advisors with about $770 million in client assets from Wells Fargo in Houston, while Royal Alliance announced that it added two independent teams in Chicago and Salt Lake City with combined assets of more than $400 million and...

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  Morgan Stanley Adds 9 Merrill, Wells & JPMorgan Advisors

  By Janet Levaux, AdvisorOne  |  April 8, 2013

  In addition, the wirehouse says it has picked up 10 UBS reps in past 5 weeks.

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  Where Are the New Advisors?

  By Jane Wollman Rusoff  |  February 24, 2012

  Where in the world are the industry’s new financial advisors coming from?

• LPL Financial's IPO: The Competitive Equation

  By Janet Levaux, AdvisorOne  |  June 7, 2010

  LPL Financial, which filed an S-1 statement with the SEC on June 4, to go public with a stock offering, had 11,950 affiliated representatives as of April 1, 2010, a self-reported number gathered as part of Investment Advisor's broker/dealer survey.

• LPL Financial's IPO & Its Impact: Beating the Brokerage Competition

  By Janet Levaux, AdvisorOne  |  June 7, 2010

  With 12,026 advisors, LPL Financial is the fifth-largest U.S. broker-dealer. Its IPO and growth plans could allow it to surpass its larger publicly traded wirehouse rivals (Morgan Stanley, Merrill Lynch and Wells Fargo) within a year or two, experts say.

• The Right Staff

  By Jane Wollman Rusoff  |  February 1, 2009

  Though Rex C. Whiteside has forsaken a fancy sushi palace for a less pricey Japanese spot when buying his staff lunch, and has cut a...

• The Matchmaker

  By Jane Wollman Rusoff  |  July 1, 2008

  Tennessee Williams wrote the famed line for tragic character Blanche DuBois in his play, "A Streetcar Named Desire." But veteran executive recruiter Mark Elzweig says...

• The Future of Fee-Based Accounts

  By Ellen Uzelac  |  October 1, 2007

  A collision of regulatory events has given a boost to the industry's move toward a fee-based business model -- with some pundits predicting dramatic change...