We provide business owners and brokers with flexible options for listing their business online.
They know I run the administrative side of our business and my brokers do the other.
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Meanwhile, an entirely new class of competitor has entered the business: online brokers who cater to the smallest investor.
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Any manager who determines in his judgment that achievement of the minority brokerage goals is not consistent with his best execution duty may simply refuse to do business with minority brokers.
"Applying for financial assistance is also a complicated business, and brokers don't have a lot of experience with that, " said Tricia Brooks, a research assistant professor at the Georgetown University Health Policy Institute.
In the end anything that creates market inefficiency, whether tipping off favored clients or wild parties that throw business to inefficient brokers, comes out of the pockets of people who provide capital to Wall Street, like pensioners and taxpayers.
It takes more than a new wrapper on an old business to win over brokers.
It harnesses the Web to automate the old American Machinist Supply-way of doing business that required 20 brokers on the phone.
It harnesses the web to automate the old American Machinist Supply way of doing business that required 20 brokers on the phone.
As the Wall Street Journal reported, Morgan Stanley claims to have netted more business from recruiting Merrill brokers than it has lost this year.
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"Everybody is out there trying to replace the former function of the floor broker, " says Steve Sanders, a managing director and head of business development at Interactive Brokers.
One has to wonder how many investors would not do business with managers and brokers, or would risk less of their assets, if full disclosure were the rule.
It is closing its stand-alone home lending offices and its business of lending to mortgage brokers.
It is the manic day-traders, however, who make up most of the brokers' new business.
That company operates another large subprime mortgage business that sells through independent brokers.
Moreover, an end to soft commissions would put some agency brokers out of business, so reducing diversity in the market.
"It is simply not enough to rely on prime brokers and other business partners of hedge funds to police for abuses, " Galvin said Wednesday.
David writes about the good and the bad in the financial services industry (hint: some brokers in that business are actually like vampires).
The CFTC blocks foreign banks and brokers from doing business with Americans unless they follow the U.S. regulations and register with the appropriate US regulator.
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Since then Ertel has hired a roomful of brokers to develop the business.
The first time my husband and I researched health insurance plans, we had several health insurance brokers clamoring for our business.
About 80% of that business is done directly or through brokers.
Nici Audhlam-Gardiner, head of mortgages at Abbey, Britain's second-largest mortgage lender, says that brokers who previously steered business to now-defunct or struggling players are now turning her way.
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Business has been good even for brokers in China, where markets were mired in the red almost all of last year, until a December rally that pushed trading volume higher.
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Even so, the experience of Korea's online brokers is worrying for the business elsewhere.
Garban's boss, Michael Spencer, believes that exchanges and brokers are in the same business: providing pools of liquidity.
If the CFTC has extraterritorial powers on retail forex, then foreign-based brokers will probably not do business with non-qualified American participants.
In future many clients may just instruct their brokers to divide up the business even more and sort out the resulting complexity.
Citigroup and Legg Mason are said to be discussing a swap of the latter's broking operation for most of the former's asset-management business, because having the two compromises brokers' duty to their clients.
Brokers already take big bits of business and split them between individual companies, Lloyd's and other markets such as Bermuda (where rather than using a subscription model, the lead insurer often subcontracts risk to peers).
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