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What a year for broker-dealers and their advisers

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Record highs for B-Ds in profits, revenues and assets give the industry much to be cheery about.

As the pandemic enters its third year and everyday life takes on some semblance of normalcy, the InvestmentNews team looks back at the most interesting industry developments of 2021.

Wall Street and its array of outposts from Phoenix to Austin to St. Petersburg, Florida, should be popping the cha

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