National Financial

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  Fidelity Introduces Personal Trust Services for Broker Workstation

  By Marlene Y. Satter, AdvisorOne  |  May 24, 2012

  National Financial workstation offers suite as brokers vie for $3 trillion in assets.

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  Small Broker-Dealers Under Fire but Confident: FSI OneVoice 2012

  By John Sullivan, Advisorone  |  January 24, 2012

  Fee compression, new regulation and industry consolidation are threatening the independent broker-dealer business, especially smaller firms, experts say, leading some to openly question whether these firms will survive.

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  Advisors Are From Mars, Clients Are From Venus

  By William H. Byrnes, Esq., Robert Bloink, Esq., LL.M.  |  July 12, 2011

  Fidelity survey finds a surprise: Wealthy clients are more likely to want to use technology to communicate with advisors than vice-versa.

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  Indie Advisors’ Growing Pains

  By Ellen Uzelac  |  June 1, 2011

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  Independent Business Model Offers Best Earnings Potential: Fidelity Survey

  By John Sullivan, Advisorone  |  April 7, 2011

  The majority of brokers and advisors see the independent model as more attractive today and offering the greatest earnings potential, according to Fidelity Investments’ latest Broker and Advisor Sentiment Index survey.

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  National Financial’s Mirchandani on Fidelity’s Strategy, Advisor Challenges

  By James J. Green, AdvisorOne  |  February 10, 2011

  Two years after being named to run second-largest clearing firm for IBDs, Mirchandani discusses challenges posed by risk-shy investors and an aging advisor workforce.

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  Fidelity Announces Upgrades for National Financial’s StreetScape

  By James J. Green, AdvisorOne  |  February 10, 2011

  Sanjiv Mirchandani, president of National Financial, said upgrades being rolled out during 2011 include redesign, trading and account management enhancements.

• Fidelity Sees Big Uptick in Brokers Moving to Independence

  By Michael S. Fischer  |  July 29, 2010

  Fidelity Investments helped some 95 individual brokers and teams, with nearly $7 billion in assets under management, transition to independence in the first half of 2010, the firm announced Wednesday, July 28.

• Fidelity Says Investors Stuck by Their Advisors after Market Bottom

  By Michael S. Fischer  |  June 16, 2010

  Advisors expect higher taxes and regulations to change their way of doing business.

• Fidelity Says Investors Stuck by Their Advisors After Market Bottom

  By Michael S. Fischer  |  June 16, 2010

  Investors remained loyal to their advisors and brokers after the financial crisis bottomed out in March 2009, according to the 2010 Fidelity and National Financial survey released by Fidelity Investments on Tuesday, June 15.