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What Will Brokerage Turmoil Mean to Advisers?

dominoEach week it seems another financial giant with brokerage subsidiaries is going under and experiencing a bailout or a buyout/merger.  First there was Bear Stearns, then Lehman Brothers, and now Merrill Lynch (then possibly AIG’s brokerage division!).

So much news is released on a daily basis that it’s becoming difficult to keep up with the developments and consequences of the unprecedented actions.

What is an adviser to do?

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