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Schwab's unsuccessful $15 million claim against Morgan Stanley for poaching brokers shows real animosity between the firms, experts say.

Two Merrill Lynch advisors managing $227 million in assets have left to join Wells Fargo Advisors.

Raymond James recruited a former Merrill Lynch executive to head one its newest branch offices.

Firm switches to LPL to help it attract "overlooked" wirehouse advisors with $250,000 or more in revenues.

Most advisors won't get the price they want from selling their practices -- and don't really want to sell anyway, one study finds.

David Lau, the longtime COO at Jefferson National Life Insurance -- which specializes in Monument Advisor, a flat-fee variable annuity sold to RIAs and fee-based advisors -- has left the company.

While one prominent advisor calls the board's demand 'woefully overreaching,' a securities lawyer calls it a 'good, aggressive' tactic.

Q&A with Benjamin F. "Tad" Edwards IV, CEO and President of Benjamin F. Edwards & Co., on how he built up his firm to have 180 advisors in 24 states.

A paper that Hopewell published introduced stochastic modeling -- including the use of Monte Carlo simulations -- to the profession for the first time.

Regional firm Benjamin F. Edwards picked up a Wells Fargo advisor team.