Industry

FINRA arbitration panel sides with a former Commonwealth Financial Network client who claims he lost his retirement savings due to bad retirement planning advice.

A group of ultrawealthy Citigroup clients clamoring for big returns on U.S. real estate have entered into funding commitments for a new commercial and multifamily development on Sunset Boulevard in West Hollywood, Calif. It is one of several co-investment projects the firm is offering through its private bank.

Janet Robinson is the first woman to join the 8-member board of the independent firm founded by wirehouse managers and affiliated with Raymond James Financial Services.

Worries about a tidal wave of retiring advisors may be overblown, say some wealth management executives.

The St. Louis-based firm said that Reed, Gates, Strait Wealth Management Group has joined the company with an office in Lexington, Ky.

A deal with Strategic Wealth Partners, outside Chicago, was Focus's sixth of the year, bringing in $1.4 billion.

RBC enticed away a Merrill Lynch team managing $103 million in assets.

Frank Campanale, CEO of Lebenthal Wealth Advisors and a former executive at Smith Barney, spells out the key elements in firm's growth plans and recruiting strategy: brand, equity stakes and passion.

Washington Wealth Management lured away an advisor managing $100 million in assets and who had been at the wirehouse for three decades.

RCS executive says it “will take some time” to restore normalcy to his embattled firms.