Career moves

The partners at Pilot Financial have been through only one acquisition in their firm's history — the recent sale of Lincoln Financial's wealth groups to Osaic — and they're not eager to repeat the experience.

The giant custodian, retail brokerage and asset management firm has completed the industry's largest ever conversion with TD Ameritrade. What's next after a key executive's departure?

UBS reportedly planning to appoint investment bank chief Rob Karofsky to lead its U.S. business, where he'd focus on expanding into the U.S. wealth market.

The mammoth coup far outpaces other recruiting deals of recent memory.

Citizens has been on a recruiting and acquisition tear in recent years. Tom Metzger, the recently appointed head of the bank's private wealth unit, says it's just the beginning.

Nearly one out of three advisors at independent broker-dealers has thought about going solo in the past year, a new survey finds.

Michael Nathanson will replace interim chief Dan Glaser but remain the chief of The Colony Group as the RIA aggregator consolidates its ranks out of the public eye.

Amid a busy April for big hires, compliance tech provider COMPLY and wealthtech platform TIFIN have brought on industry vets Michael Stanton and Jeannette Kuda, respectively, aiming for strategic growth.

The prohibition would be on most contract provisions meant to keep emplolyees from taking jobs with competitors.

Three advisory teams managing $10 billion in the San Francisco area are among an ongoing wave of departures from the biggest U.S. bank.