Dan is a business journalist who previously worked for various local newspapers and industry publications. He also worked for two years in Beijing as an editor at China Daily. A graduate of the University of Missouri-Columbia, he has written about banking, local governments and the legal profession, among other subjects. He now covers how politics, policy and regulation affect the financial planning industry.
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The mammoth coup far outpaces other recruiting deals of recent memory.
May 10 -
Despite the apparent decline, the independent broker-dealer giant remains one of the leaders in advisor recruiting and merger and acquisition deals.
May 10 -
The federal banking regulator agrees that the former employees' claims against the failed regional bank don't belong in FINRA arbitration.
May 9 -
Arbitration panels and courts have already shown openness to arguments that deferred compensation is protected under federal retirement law.
May 8 -
Sixteen advisors argue the megabank owes them more than $270 million over false promises they were made when being recruited.
May 7 -
Executives at the Zurich-based bank say $27B in net new assets for the first quarter put the firm well on its way to its wealth management goals.
May 7 -
Industry experts who track comings and goings at large firms say the advisor staff figures often obscure more than they reveal.
May 4 -
Citizens has been on a recruiting and acquisition tear in recent years. Tom Metzger, the recently appointed head of the bank's private wealth unit, says it's just the beginning.
May 3 -
Nearly one out of three advisors at independent broker-dealers has thought about going solo in the past year, a new survey finds.
May 2 -
Here's what advisors at the $2 million production level can expect to earn at large and regional firms
May 2
