Industry

The team, known as Madison Street Financial Group, generated $3.5 million in annual revenue.

HighTower recruited a Merrill Lynch advisor to join a group that broke away from the wirehouse earlier this year.

The resignation comes in the wake of the apparent suicide in October of David Zier, Convergent's chief executive.

An advisor team generating $6.7 million in annual revenue has left J.P. Morgan Securities for Raymond James & Associates.

An ex-Ameriprise franchise advisor was fined and suspended by FINRA for allegedly copying and pasting client signatures onto documents.

A new addition to Raymond James & Associates helps further the firm's growth plans.

Two Raymond James advisors joined Ameriprise; one went to the employee channel, the other moved to the firm's independent side.

Members of the Financial Planning Coalition fire back at lawmakers' call for the SEC to shuffle existing resources and tap a third party to increase examinations of advisors.

The industry saw dollar hedge demand strong among ETFs, another insurer acquiring an asset manager and the second ETF provider to offer U.S. investors access to China's onshore bond market.

Wells Fargo Advisors recruited a veteran advisor generating more than $1 million in annual revenue.