The addition of Prudential Financial and Atria Wealth Solutions helped boost LPL's advisor headcount to a record of nearly 29,000 by the end of last year.

Despite only a slight increase in its headcount of financial advisors amid tough recruiting fights, the firm reeled in record productivity, assets and advisory flows.

Like other wealth managers that have ceased reporting advisor numbers every quarter, Raymond James says the figures have lost meaning.

Stifel chief executive Ron Kruszewski said surging markets have forced firms to be particularly choosy about which advisors they try to poach from rivals. That may change this year.

The Westlake, Texas-based firm called 2024 a transition year after faltering during the regional banking chaos in 2023.

Executives say the Bank of America subsidiary likely benefited from clients in 2023 seeking a safe harbor from teetering regional banks.

The investment banking giant has been the subject of regulatory probes regarding the way it vets prospective clients. So far, that's not driving away potential clients, executives say.

CEO Ted Pick said nearly half of net new assets Morgan Stanley brought in last year landed in fee-generating accounts — and that's right where he wants them.

The regional giant reported $2.2 trillion in client assets last year, despite seeing its net new flows decline.

The number of financial advisors at America's biggest bank dropped slightly from last quarter but was still up from last year.

Citi wealth head Andy Sieg told employees that net new investment assets — which surged last year — are the division's "North Star."

The BNY company unveiled an expanded custodial agreement with a large wealth management client in the fourth quarter, as asset values boosted its results.

Wells Fargo and other large wealth managers have been under scrutiny from plaintiffs' lawyers and regulators for the returns they pay on uninvested cash. It hardly mattered for Wells' bottom line last quarter.

Net income in the firm's U.S. wealth business revives following losses related to its City National subsidiary a year ago.

Edward Jones' 2024 winning streak continues. In the third quarter, the firm's advisor headcount expanded and its net revenue rose by double digits.

New CEO Rich Steinmeier depicted a firm that's conducting business as usual despite the turmoil in its upper ranks earlier in the month.

Swiss bank UBS reported a jump in wealth management revenues in the third quarter as profits soared higher than analysts expected. Still, CEO Sergio Ermotti warned of an economic soft landing and uncertainties in the U.S. presidential election.

Adjusted operating net revenues within the Minneapolis-based firm's advice and wealth management segment grew 14% to $2.7 billion in the third quarter compared to a year ago.

CEO Paul Reilly said that even if the firm is recruiting fewer advisors, the books of business it is bringing on are growing only larger.

After adding 27 advisors in the past three months, CEO Ronald Kruszewski looks at the "recruiting landscape" and likes what he sees.