Regional Broker-Dealers are Making a Comeback
From the Desk of Jim Eccleston at Eccleston Law LLC:
Once overlooked compared to the registered investment adviser and the independent broker-dealer market, regional brokerage firms quietly are making comeback due to recruiting gains at the expense of wirehouses.
However, as wirehouses such as Morgan Stanley, UBS Financial and Merrill Lynch have reduced their recruiting efforts, and Wells Fargo Advisors deals with a series of scandals at its parent bank, regional firms have been aggressively hiring wirehouses brokers by offering attractive signing bonuses and competitive compensation packages.
Comparing growth rates from 2007 through 2017, the four wirehouses have had a compound annual growth rate of 3% of client assets, whereas regional firms have been more successful. For instance, during that same time period, Stifel posted a growth rate of 17%.
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