How hedge fund control and E*Trade's former CFO helped Mark Casady see that making LPL a blue chip was a fool's errand
Matthew Audette concedes that he came to LPL lured by its potential for higher leverage
Stephen Winks
Audette connotes the maturing of the independent b/d model. The race begins on who best supports the advisor in the consumer’s best interest. LPL does not have the heavy OSJ and product distribution overhead of our largest wirehouses and is poised to out execute major firms at lower cost in its support of advisory services—the only thing that really counts in the free market.
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Wall Street analysts publicly endorsed the 50 year-old executive; LPL chief financial officer Matt Audette passed over for CEO, but he rises to president while maintaining his CFO title
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