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The group includes two recruits who began their careers in the late 1970s.

The recruit joined a practice opened by a former complex director from the same wirehouse.

Edward Wedbush allegedly failed to supervise mandated regulatory filings.

For one strategy, clients should create income streams that have built-in protection, such as Social Security and long-term insurance.

The wirehouse is also reorganizing how it deploys a number of product and service consultants and technology specialists.

The wirehouse advisers generated a combined $2 million in annual revenue at the time of their departure.

Established firms have an edge as the M&A market moves toward another record year.

The country's largest independent broker-dealer says compliance with the new fiduciary rule will offer competitive advantages.

The case, filed on behalf of an on-call branch office manager who works with advisers, follows similar retirement plan-related litigation recently filed against other firms, including Morgan Stanley.

The veteran supervisor got his start at Merrill Lynch in the early 1980s.