Andrew Welsch

The independent firm founded by former Merrill Lynch executives hired away a recruit from the wirehouse.

A fresh look at the best pay for advisers at the wirehouses and leading regional broker-dealers.

A fresh look at the best pay for advisors at the wirehouses and leading regional broker-dealers.

Two teams, including one that managed about $300 million at Wells Fargo, left their firms to join U.S. Capital Advisors.

The manager, who left Raymond James after only two years, also had logged in more than two decades at Morgan Stanley and Merrill Lynch.

In the latest in a series of cases, an arbitration panel has sided with a client against UBS, ordering the wirehouse to pay nearly $1.5 million in damages related to UBS' sale of Puerto Rican bonds and closed-end funds.

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Janney Montgomery Scott hired six advisors, moving the firm closer to its goal of 50 new recruits this year.

Raymond James lost another advisor to Wells Fargo’s IBD, while several Morgan Stanley advisors made the jump to independence.

The wirehouse lost a veteran advisor who generated $1.5 million in annual revenue.

The departure comes two months after Deutsche Bank agreed to sell its U.S. Private Client Services unit to Raymond James.

The brokerage firm adjusted its comp plan for advisors in its employee channel, reflecting similar measures taken by Merrill Lynch.

The advisors left Credit Suisse, passing on an offer to join rival firm Wells Fargo.

The fund was purportedly a safe investment based on a computer algorithm. In fact, clients dumped millions of dollars into a fund, which later lost 80% of its value in a single month, authorities say.

It was the first major executive shake-up at the wirehouse since President Greg Fleming quit.

The nation's biggest brokerage firms took a beating last quarter.

The brokerage firm, which has been hit with millions in regulatory fines in recent years, lost another 91 FAs.

The proposal landed at the White House's Office of Budget and Management yesterday for one last review.

Depending on what is permissible under the Labor Department's forthcoming rule, "there will have to be adjustments on the part of the advisor and on the part of the firm," CEO Jim Cracchiolo says.

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