Lisa Shidler

Nicholas Schorsch explains why buying Cetera makes him a white-hat magnate in a black-hat world

Nicholas Schorsch: We don't want more product sales.

First Allied

Finetooth Consulting

Cetera Financial Group

RCS Capital

AR Capital

Ryan Shanks

Nicholas Schorsch

<p>Adherents of the hybrid RIA model seem to understand the world in the same terms as Puritan dissenters, now known as Baptists, Quakers, Presbyterians, Unitarians and Congregationalists. The members of those offshoots avoided the fate of the Puritans who believed a little too ardently that grace could not be earned, only bestowed by God. The Puritans are now extinct. More inclusive splinter sects that accommodate striving sinners, on the other hand, have gone on to survive and prosper. Hybrid RIAs espouse a new world order of accountable advice that errs on the side of inclusion of brokers despite their propensity for sin inherent in their inevitable conflicts of interest. RIA purists see this more-the-merrier mindset as too much fiduciary disharmony to throw at clients and an unsettling bifurcation when building a successful, long-haul business. RIA hybrid enthusiasts say the success of this model – and it is the fastest growing in the advisory world -- speaks for itself and that such firms house the best of the transactional brokerage business and the fee business under one roof. Moreover, these evangelists see the hybrid model as a means of bridging the gap between a whole generation financial advisors by leading captive wirehouse brokers to a model that offers more objective, open- architecture advice. Whatever side a reader falls on this dynamic topic certainly deserves a reader section for itself and we are proud to present it.</p>

Hybrid RIA

The RCS chairman says the whole purpose of buying IBDs is to diversify away from product sales

Nicholas Schorsch explains why buying Cetera makes him a white-hat magnate in a black-hat world

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