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Leadership positions at the firm have been filled to balance its recent wave of RIA recruitments.

Four advisors left the wirehouse to join regional broker-dealer Benjamin F. Edwards.

The firm said wealth management profits rose to $509 million for the third quarter, boosted by lower compensation expenses.

SunTrust's chief risk officer will lead the Consumer Banking and Private Wealth Management business.

An advisor who had been at Merrill Lynch for 20 years left the wirehouse to join UBS.

An advisor who moved to a wirehouse from a boutique offers guidance on finding a firm that will offer greater job satisfaction and also benefit clients.

If you take only one message from a rather tumultuous 2015, you might want to consider this: Build your practice with a firm where retail wealth management is a core business.

HD Vest will marry its data mining capabilities and lineup of advisors to Blucora's free online tax preparation platform, but CEO Roger Ochs won’t call it a robo.

Barclays lost a team to RBC, the latest defection since the British-owned firm agreed to sell its brokerage unit to Stifel. This is the first to go to a regional brokerage instead of a wirehouse or high-profile boutique.

Jim Weddle, managing partner of Edward Jones, says the firm hasn't been finding as many quality recruits as it would like.