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The advisor, a former employee, has been soliciting more than two dozen clients at the bank, JPMorgan says.

Bill Hamm’s Independent Financial Partners has grown more than fivefold in 10 years with the No. 1 IBD.

Advisors should conduct a comprehensive suitability analysis before initiating 1035 exchanges.

The WiseBanyan platform currently has $153 million in assets under management and 32,000 clients.

Like other broker-dealers, the firm is far from achieving a ratio of 50/50 men-and-women planners.

Many advisors feel like they don't have a compelling personal story, but they probably do — they just have to discover it.

Chances are, you’ve never used it — or even noticed it.

Firms seeking to recruit high-level talent will have to be creative.

The firm was defined by a culture of “no, no, no,” a top headhunter says as part of On Wall Street’s annual recruiters roundtable.

The $263 million practice’s new IBD reported record recruiting for 2017, helped in part by the movement of advisors following LPL’s massive acquisition.