The Wirehouses & Other Full-Service Brokerage Firms:
An Industry Under Threat?

Date Published: April 2011
Comprehensive PPT Deck: 495 Slides
Summary PPT Deck: 78 Slides


The purpose of this report is to provide readers with an initial understanding of the wirehouses, regional broker/dealers, & investment banks, a market that has been both rapidly evolving and consolidating. Tiburon has a separate research report that addresses the investment banking business (corporate finance; mergers & acquisitions advice; institutional sales & trading). This report specifically focused on the private client businesses of these firms firms..

This research addresses the four historical phases of the full-service brokerage firms industry, including: 
  • Historical Phase
  • Growth Phase
  • Discount Broker Competition Phase
  • Independent Advisor Competition Phase

    This research defines two distinct markets segments including:

    • Wirehouse Firms
    • Regional Broker/Dealers

This research outlines five key service providers to the full-service brokerage firms industry, including:

  • Mutual Fund Companies & Other Traditional Product Companies
  • Fee-Accounts, TAMPs, & Separate Account Managers
  • Exchange Traded Funds, Hedge Funds, & Other Investment Product Companies
  • Wealth Management & Family Office Service Product Companies
  • Technology Companies & Other Key Vendors

And this research makes the following future predictions for the full-service brokerage firms industry, including: 

  • Lack of Growth in Sale Forces, the Break-Away Broker Movements, & the Slow Decline in Market Share
  • Repositioning of Core Offers
  • Custom Recruiting & Compensation Strategies and Transformational Business Models Emerging
  • Acquisitions of Independent Broker/Dealers
  • Spin-Off of Retail Brokers

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