Career moves

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.

Two advisors with $136 million in client assets left the wirehouse to join the regional B-D.

The new recruits join from Wells Fargo and Oppenheimer.

It’s rare that advisors leave the Christian-oriented independent firm, a spokeswoman says.

The wirehouse recruited the mega team from UBS.

A father and his two sons switch from one independent broker-dealer to another.

The recruit previously generated $1.3 million in annual revenue.

Snowden Lane's newest wirehouse recruits opened a California office for the independent firm.

The wirehouse's newest hires come from Credit Suisse, which is looking to exit the U.S. wealth management market.