Career moves

More than two dozen teams managing $1 billion or more in client assets switched firms this year. See where they landed.

The new recruits moved over to the independent side of the wirehouse.

After losing dozens of advisors who managed billions in client assets to UBS, scorned Credit Suisse strikes back with legal challenge.

A father and son along with their team leave the independent broker-dealer to join the employee side at Ameriprise.

David Sawyer will lead a team dedicated to developing and executing strategies to grow BMO's trust business in Delaware.

Credit Suisse lost another advisor, this time to rival boutique J.P. Morgan Securities.

Morgan Stanley recruited two advisors who oversaw nearly $120 million in client assets.

The recruit and his brother form a team at the wirehouse to revive their retired father's advisor group.

Thomas Melcher, managing executive of PNC's ultrahigh-net-worth wealth management unit, will assume his new role on Jan. 1, succeeding James Dunigan, who retires next year.

The wirehouse added several new recruits to the firm's offices in Boston, Chicago and Cincinnati.