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Robert "RJ"  Moore: [LPL is] a partner and a solution -  not the partner and the solution.

Robert Moore's first big move as chief executive and stakeholder at $49-billion AUA LPL OSJ is to strip LPL of its exclusivity as broker-dealer

The Ex-LPL executive just upped the 'coopetition' stakes by pulling Private Advisor Group closer to custodians like Fidelity and Schwab and broker-dealers like Triad Advisors.

June 3, 2021 at 2:28 AM

Dan Arnold: This will allow our advisors to spend more time with their clients and grow their business.

LPL Financial pushes toward full-service-on-tap model with its 'virtual' play -- running some real risks in the process

With virtual, digital and OSJ firms making headway, CEO Dan Arnold's move may amend LPL business model or, one recruiter says, be a sop to Wall Street analysts hungering for a new angle

February 20, 2018 at 8:58 PM

Shirl Penney (2nd from r., flanked by Rich Gill, Marty Bicknell and John Furey): ​Breakaways should expect to 'pay a 25% settlement fee moving forward.'

An RIABiz advertising exec derives hard meanings from soft comments made by big shots at MarketCounsel Summit

Post-TD Tom Bradley, post-refinanced Elliot Weissbluth, post-divorce David Bach and Ric Edelman, post-protocol Shirl Penney and post-windfall Marty Bicknell were among execs who tipped their hands and hearts about where they are headed

December 12, 2017 at 2:18 PM

Jim O'Shaughnessy: LPL will allow us to give recommendations but you've got to make sure you're fully working in the RIA with compliance, supervision and that product recommendations are all under that umbrella.

LPL Financial's DOL-rule memo to reps implies deeper message: Become an RIA or stand down on giving rollover advice

The 'deep-pocketed' broker-dealer puts its Series-7 brokers on notice to forget about suggesting a rollover even as it gives its hybrid RIAs a strict protocol to stay out of trouble

July 5, 2017 at 8:02 PM

Dan Arnold: As an entrepreneur at heart, I am constantly inspired and energized by the work of our advisors and institutions.

LPL takes selling off the table and takes out boisterous Mark Casady at CEO in favor of quiet Dan Arnold

The firm's future as an independent public company is assured for now but the abrupt shift in management style poses new questions

December 6, 2016 at 12:52 AM

Doug Flynn: New management brings in its own coaches.

LPL Financial share price tumbles to pre-hostile bid levels in atmosphere of eerie calm

LPL reps shrug their shoulders over a possible sale and investors seem in no hurry to buy but experts say the B-D has what PE loves -- lousy growth but terrific cash flow

October 21, 2016 at 6:57 PM

Scott Smith: I don't think the goal for them is to fight Wealthfront.

With BlackRock ahead and blue ocean behind, LPL finds its robo comfort zone

With the 150 basis-point-plus price of Guided Wealth Portfolios, LPL's robo plan doesn't look so robo, except for the onboarding

April 15, 2016 at 7:59 PM

John Hyland: You'll see a complete reversal and the brokerage will shrink and the advisory will increase.

The RIA-ification intrinsic to LPL's preemptive DOL policy changes -- yet how tightly to revenue sharing in IRAs it is hanging

LPL's super-clients like Private Advisor Group see a clear 'advisory' future but LPL is walking a more shrub-choked hybrid path

March 22, 2016 at 9:30 PM

Abby Salameh: When we hunger for realness, how can a technology solution deliver the touchy-feely sentiments that a human can?

What cheap lessons Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders are teaching RIAs about the dangers of trying to institutionalize their practices

As the financial advice business goes robo, goes 'branded' and goes virtual -- with backing of 'smart' money and 'professional' managers -- the risk of backlash is real

October 20, 2015 at 10:01 PM

Sara Botkin [with father Les and brother Lester]: We learned that it became a fireable offense to refer clients to other banks.

This father-daughter-son team survived 9/11 but divorced Wall Street altogether 14 years later

The trigger was a demand by Morgan Stanley to sign a bank contract but there was much more that led the practice to LPL OSJ, Private Advisor Group

April 7, 2015 at 5:17 PM

Robert Moore leaves LPL after steadying the firm.

Robert Moore walks from LPL Financial president role for new gig, but Dan Arnold softens the blow by filling the void

Mark Casady's second-in-command was hired as CFO from a bank early in the 2008 crisis but Arnold is known as entrepreneurial soul who can 'do' corporate

March 3, 2015 at 9:04 PM

John Hyland pictured yesterday at his chemo session: I have every intention of coming out the other end.

How the industry is rallying to help John Hyland as his cancer returns and why the New Jersey advisor seems impervious to fear

The only path to survival for the owner of a $17-billion AUA OSJ is a bone marrow transplant and advisors are getting swabbed to improve his odds of finding an elusive match

January 14, 2015 at 6:19 PM

Bill Morrissey epitomizes LPL's ability to grow rapidly.
April 14, 2014 at 6:52 PM

Bob Oros: This is what cell phone companies do. They bring us in with a low entry fee and when it comes time, the switching costs don't seem worth it.

Fidelity counsels RIAs to suck it up and go after 'millionaires of tomorrow' but with a strict discipline

RIAs need to chop fees, stop counting pennies and, yes, babysit a bit to wrest these financial tweeners from discount brokers

January 24, 2014 at 6:36 PM

Matt Enyedi: Anytime we do something at LPL, it's under the lens of how can we do this for RIAs. Five years ago, if we'd rolled this out, it would have been only for LPL corporate firms.

LPL Financial gets beyond the halfway-house model to compete with Schwab, Fidelity for advisors that are wholly RIAs

The big broker-dealer is making moves that do not discriminate against, may in fact favor, pure RIAs, but hybrid habits die hard, skeptics say

December 17, 2013 at 9:55 PM

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