Mutual Service Corp.

• MSC Boosts Assets; Commonwealth Recognized by Pubs

  By Janet Levaux, AdvisorOne  |  August 1, 2007

  Mutual Service Corporation (MSC) reports that it has increased its advisory assets under management by more than 20 percent, from $5.1 billion in August 2006...

• 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...

• 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...

• LPL to Buy Three PacLife BDs and Near the 10,000-FA Mark

  By Janet Levaux, AdvisorOne  |  April 1, 2007

  After months of speculation, LPL Financial Services says it has reached a deal to acquire three of Pacific Life Insurance Company's broker-dealers: Mutual Service Corporation,...

• LPL in Deal to Acquire Three Pacific Life Broker/Dealers

  By James J. Green, AdvisorOne  |  March 2, 2007

  LPL Financial, the big independent broker/dealer, and Pacific Life Insurance Co. ended speculation about the future of Pacific Life's B/Ds by announcing a deal under which LPL would acquire three of PacLife's five B/Ds: Mutual Service Corp., based in West Palm Beach, Florida; Associated Financial Group of Los Angeles, and...

• 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...

• Longevity Risk and VAs

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

  "The longevity risk factor is an enormous one for this industry," says Art Kopf, an industry veteran who is a senior marketing services representative for...

• 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...