Lorie Konish

The Investment Management Consultants Association has hired Jim Dobbs as director of education following his six-year stint as a certification consultant and program director for its Certified Private Wealth Advisor certification program.

Robert W. Baird & Co. has snapped up 12 financial advisors with a total of $1.93 billion in client assets under management.

RBC Wealth Management has established a new office in Raleigh, N.C., staffed with a six-member team of financial advisors and associates.

UBS Wealth Management Americas has snapped up several financial advisor teams and four individual financial advisors previously working with more than $1.7 billion in client assets.

Bank of America Merrill Lynch has added new global physical cash concentration features to its technology platform for liquidity management for corporate and commercial clients.

Royal Bank of Canada has acquired Mesirow Financial’s correspondent clearing and custody business in a transaction aimed at boosting its own correspondent services and advisor services divisions.

Once a year, financial advisor Geri Eisenman Pell sits down with her team to analyze which clients are jiving most with her practice.

After Kathleen Rehl’s husband died in 2007, the fact that she was a Certified Financial Planner did not save her from the financial confusion that affects most widows.

Ahead of yesterday’s Women Advisors Forum in Boca Raton, Fla., we caught up with Eleanor Blayney, president of Directions for Women, on why attracting female clients is crucial.

Ameriprise Financial has lured in two new advisor teams boasting more than $204 million in client assets from Merrill Lynch and Lincoln Financial.

Robert W. Baird & Co. has hired Morgan Stanley Smith Barney executive Mark T. Stevanovic to open the firm’s first wealth management office in Maine.

Citi Private Bank has hired two executives from Wells Fargo to serve as law firm group private banker and foreign exchange investment specialist.

An arbitration panel shot down a claimant’s request for up to $2.9 million for allegedly botched investments tied to private placements and Ponzi schemes last week, and instead ordered her to pay almost $136,000 in costs and expert witness fees.

Wells Fargo has promoted Dean Junkans to the role of chief investment officer of Wells Fargo Advisors and Wells Fargo Private Bank.

Former Morgan Stanley Smith Barney financial advisor Victor Manuel Rivera Jr. pled guilty in a New Jersey federal court to stealing more than $90,000 from the accounts of his clients.

UBS Wealth Management Americas has snapped up a three-member Wells Fargo financial advisor team in Northbrook, Ill.

Financial services firm Janney Montgomery Scott has promoted Steven Rivera to the position of satellite branch manager based out of the firm’s Hauppauge, N.Y., office.

Raymond James has snagged a four-member financial advisor team with $853 million in client assets from Merrill Lynch.

Wells Fargo picked up two new financial advisors this week with the hiring of Jennifer Suleman from Morgan Stanley Smith Barney and Randal Keeth from Raymond James & Associates.

RBC Wealth Management continues to bulk up its Paramus, N.J., force with the hiring of financial advisor John Ebanietti from Oppenheimer & Co.