Victoria Zhuang is the professional development reporter at Financial Planning. She has a bachelor's degree in comparative literature from Harvard University and a master's degree in journalism from Columbia Journalism School. Before joining FP, she freelanced as an arts and culture writer while working in the Boston nonprofit world for several years. She also completed a Dow Jones News Fund business reporting internship at American Banker. Victoria covers how wealth management firms maintain their competitive edge and how financial advisors can achieve excellence serving clients of all wealth levels. She is a native of New York City.
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As the regional firm aims to serve more high net worth clients, it plans to hire 60 experienced advisors this year.
January 10 -
The firm is rolling out team affiliations and internal career pathways into advisor roles, while looking to siphon off veterans from wirehouses by continuing a popular no-strings-attached transition offer.
December 21 -
A report from the bank's asset management division shows that American women are financially ill-equipped for retirement and suggested how employers can help.
December 21 -
The largest U.S. bank's new digital money coach, embedded in its Chase app, has a referral feature designed to capture more business for wealth managers and contribute to attracting talent.
December 19 -
Crypto isn't going away, and neither is client interest. But the conversations around it are changing. Here's what the industry took away from 2022 and what's around the corner.
December 15 -
Here's why unplugging from your devices during the upcoming holidays can help your career, and four other insights from Emma Seppälä, a happiness researcher at Yale.
December 13 -
The giant investment bank announced cuts across the board, but its reported sparing of financial advisors suggests that wealth careers may be recession-proof in 2023.
December 8 -
Estate planning experts at JP Morgan, Bank of America, UBS, Morgan Stanley, Wells Fargo and other firms weigh in on how client needs and interests, as well as industry practices, have changed.
December 4 -
The bank hired a nonprofit exec with a background in impact investing and expanded the roles of two other executives as part of its ESG wealth push.
November 24 -
In her historic year, Kamila Elliott planted many seeds for improving diversity within, access to and awareness of the financial planning profession, but she says it has a long way to go.
November 21 -
The new employee model, appealing to high net worth advisors, is a step in the independent broker-dealer king's plans to scale up to ultra-high net worth clients.
November 18 -
The loss is one of many for Citi to Merrill in recent months, and reflects the wirehouse's recruiting advantages despite its own talent outflows to rivals.
November 17 -
The program offers veterans who face complex benefits systems help tailored to their unique needs.
November 14 -
Women board members affiliated with Wells Fargo, S&P Global and Moelis shared advice for getting onto boards successfully at American Banker's Most Powerful Women in Banking conference.
November 11 -
It's more common for teams to seek partial independence through affiliation when they leave wirehouses, but Roy and David Gutierrez took around a decade to go all the way. Here's what advisors can learn from their approach.
November 10 -
Titi Cole of Citi, Ellen Patterson of Wells Fargo and Ernie Johannson of BMO swapped tales and tips on being mentors and mentoring others, at American Banker's Most Powerful Women in Banking conference.
November 8 -
UBS is growing its advisor headcount in the U.S., but it lost four advisors today and five last week to rival firms. The Wells team is a breakaway half from a powerhouse UHNW group that split in the move.
November 4 -
The wirehouse is adding pay bumps for advisors with positive net new assets to encourage business growth in a time of shrinking client assets.
November 1 -
Despite a 21% fall in profits, the Saint Louis-based brokerage pulled in new advisors in both employee and independent channels as its wealth revenue continues to climb.
October 31 -
The behemoth wealth firm said it recently brought in its largest recruited groups ever, a strategy that paid off as it contributed to record net revenue for the third quarter.
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