Industry

Four Wells Fargo advisors have left the wirehouse to join Benjamin Edwards, opening the regional broker-dealer's 49th office.

FSI sees the new insurance coverage as an added benefit the group hopes will help it increase membership and amplify its advocacy efforts.

Rather than fighting off digital competition, RIAs should bet on Betterment's "robo advisor" technology, says industry veteran Steve Lockshin.

Alternative investments have been growing rapidly in popularity in recent years as new funds have been mushrooming and money has been flowing in. Andy Saperstein, Morgan Stanley’s head of investment products and services, explains the wirehouse’s history of working with alts and Morgan’s current approach to leveraging them in client portfolios.

Two advisors with $80 million in AUM leave Wells Fargo for RBC Wealth Management.

Raymond James has landed a former UBS advisor with more than $125 million in client assets and more than $800,000 in annual fees and commissions.

The industry is losing about 3,000 to 4,000 advisors annually who aren’t being replaced, says Pershing CEO Mark Tibergien.

Chad Ragland decided to go into the Army during the Vietnam War instead of teaching English in Tahiti with the Peace Corps (an option that was open). And he's never regretted it.

“There’s a very low supply of advisory firms with more than $1 billion in assets under management,” says Echelon CEO Dan Seivert.

Mention bankruptcy on a Form U4 and there's no erasing it, even if you settle your debts.