Breakaway brokers find a surprisingly bullish market

Breakaway brokers are gaining a lot of momentum, according to the Reformed Broker. One driver of the movement is the beating the bigger Wall Street houses took in the financial crisis, which has made investors wary of the large corporate firms.

By Joshua M. Brown,?Guest blogger / July 19, 2012

Mark Prather an ERA broker, poses for a portrait in Yorba Linda, Calif. in this June 2012 file photo. Across the country, breakway brokers, realtors and builders, many of whom are small businesses, are seeing a sales comeback.

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The breakaway broker trend is still full steam ahead according to TD's head of RIA biz Tom Nally (full disclosure, TD Ameritrade Institutional is my firm's primary custodian for client accounts.)

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The firm attracted a record 120 breakaway brokers to the RIA model and the custodian platform last quarter. That's almost 50% more than the same period in 2011. For fiscal 2012 ? TD's year-end is in September ? the company has signed up 324 breakaway brokers, a 23% gain over last year's first three quarters.

?The RIA is now the aspirational model for brokers,? said Mr. Nally, who was previously TD's managing director of institutional sales. ?We don't see the trend slowing down. We have more brokers actively engaging us all the time.?

One major driver of the movement is the beating big Wall Street houses took in the financial crisis, according to Mr. Nally. ?People are just not as enamored with the old brands as they used to be,? he said.

I myself broke away in 2010 and dropped my series 7 finally last year.? The markets are tough but I can't remember ever feeling this good about how I'm able to manage client accounts now.

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