Multi-Financial Securities

• Cetera Financial Adding Managers, Re-Grouping FAs

  By Janet Levaux, AdvisorOne  |  October 1, 2010

  Cetera Financial Group, the former ING Advisors Network, is hiring more executives for its wealth-management team. Alex Kaye, formerly of Wilshire Associates and UBS, is...

• Cetera, Former ING Advisor Group, Adds to Exec Team

  By Janet Levaux, AdvisorOne  |  September 9, 2010

  Cetera Financial Group, the former ING Advisors Network, said Tuesday, September 7, that it hired two more executives for its wealth-management team.

• Former ING Advisor Group Adds to Exec Team

  By Janet Levaux, AdvisorOne  |  September 9, 2010

  As Cetera Financial Group adds managers, including recruiters, it may also shed advisors to focus on high-performing FAs.

• Cetera, Former ING Advisor Group, Hires Second Schwab Executive

  By Janet Levaux, AdvisorOne  |  August 30, 2010

  Cetera Financial Group, formerly ING Advisors Network, said Monday it had hired Mark Palmer as the firm's national sales manager.

• Former ING Advisor Group Hires Second Schwab Exec

  By Janet Levaux, AdvisorOne  |  August 30, 2010

  Cetera Financial Group, formerly ING Advisors Network, said it has hired Mark Palmer as the firm's national sales manager after tapping Barnaby Grist in February.

• B/D Briefing: Alignment Time

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

  In late September 2009, Patrick McEvoy changed jobs, moving from the presidency of Multi-Financial Securities, part of the ING broker/dealer network, to become president and...

• NEWS & PRODUCTS, OCTOBER 2008

  By Staff Writer  |  October 1, 2008

  The SEC announced September 11 that it had brought an enforcement action against LPL Financial Corp., saying the largest independent broker/dealer had failed to safeguard...

• Reorganization at ING Broker/Dealer Unit

  By James J. Green, AdvisorOne  |  August 19, 2008

  ING Advisors Network announced a reorganization August 13 under which the presidents of its four constituent broker/dealers--Financial Network Investment Corporation, ING Financial Partners, Multi-Financial Securities, and PrimeVest Financial Services--will now report to John Simmers, CEO of ING Advisors Network.

• NEWS & PRODUCTS, June 2007

  By Kara P. Stapleton  |  June 1, 2007

  NASD has fined two Fidelity broker/dealers for preparing and distributing misleading sales literature promoting Fidelity's Destiny I and II Systematic Investment Plans, which were sold...

• A Few Good Reps

  By Marlene Y. Satter, AdvisorOne  |  January 1, 2003

  George Diachok is no stranger to the broker/dealer business. In fact, he retired from it in 2001 after selling the firm, Multi Financial Securities, that...