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Published Tuesday, April 01, 2008

The market may be ugly, and the economy may be teetering, but the major wirehouse firms aren't cutting back on the dough they're throwing at new recruits. In fact, the deals offered by the Wall Street majors have only gotten bigger, reaching a new high over the past six months. In part, that's because firms know that the biggest brokers are especially vulnerable right now: Brokerage stocks are in the toilet, damaging the retirement plans of advisors with a lot of stock options. Some firms are dishing out packages approximating 250 percent of trailing 12-months production for the ...

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