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The action in federal court alleges the exiting advisors received an incentive package worth as much as $70 million for joining RBC.

The RIA president says he and his colleagues will spend the next few weeks figuring out how the Personal Financial Management unit's office can fit in with its new owner.

From boat cruises to wine bottles to equity compensation, here's what successful recruiting for advisors looks like in 2023.

A new book by Harvard Law School professor and former SEC official John Coates warns of "a deep tension" threatening the American economy and politics.

Raymond James had scored the big team in May, before Securian's sale of its retail wealth business to Cetera closed.

The planned sale marks another step for the Wall Street giant away from previous plans to work more with retail customers.

The company is paying $75 million in penalties and restitution in connection with SEC allegations that its investment advisory arm overcharged customers it inherited in its Wachovia acquisition in 2008. The settlement is said to show the importance of conducting extensive compliance checks in a rapidly consolidating industry.

Mario Rivero pleaded guilty in February to swindling five clients out of more than $600,000.

The federal regulator reopens the comment period for its rule on safeguarding client assets in response to its new auditing requirement for private funds.

World Insurance's Pensionmark unveiled a giant deal following the insurer's private equity agreement for $1 billion in financing at a valuation of $3.4 billion.