June 1999

Dealers’ Report Card

<i>Planners look to alternate compensation methods </i>

<i>They don’t have formal training — and don’t think they need it</i>

<i>It’s got to be both the messenger and the message</i>

<i>What you get in one area you give up in another</i>

<i>The advisors who participated in our first annual Planners’ Report Card are as diverse as...</i>

<i>Philosophy at odds with rivals</i>

</i>Executed properly, it can mean instant recognition</i>

<i>What’s at stake in how the planners rank their firms</i>