Career moves

Jim Senderling and John Robbie had been with Merrill Lynch for 27 and 25 years, respectively.

Kestra grabbed a practice from the No. 1 IBD, but it gained another one while preparing for a top executive’s departure.

Susan Elolampi will be company's latest high-level hire following a dozen appointments in recent months.

The practice has spent 22 years with the No. 1 IBD, but it will be at least the eighth practice of its type to leave amid changes to the firm’s policies.

The firm’s equity-trading business head Ted Pick, promoted to lead its division of investment bankers and traders, is one possible successor.

The wirehouse has lost at least 123 advisors managing $15.7 billion in client assets year-to-date, according to other firms’ hiring announcements.

Simple readiness strategies can insulate you from protocol fallout.

The bank recruited a former executive from Vanderbilt University’s investment office to assume a newly created post directing its third-party manager research efforts.

The firm has recruited 71 advisors so this year and opened branches in four states, according to a spokeswoman.

The No. 1 independent broker-dealer has grown beyond the wirehouses, but it added about 100 fewer advisors than expected from its major acquisition.