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Are you a wirehouse advisor with at least $93 million in assets under management? Then you are the kind of advisor asset management distributors most want to reach.

Wall Street has contributed less than 2% of New York City’s job growth since the recession ended as cost-cutting efforts have led banks to replace fewer positions than other businesses.

Morgan Stanley Wealth Management has tapped rival wirehouses UBS and Wells Fargo for four advisor hiress with $475 million in client assets under management and $4.5 million in production.

Art Tambaro, president and CEO of Royal Alliance Associates, (left) one of four independent broker-dealers owned by AIG’s Advisor Group, will retire at the end of the year. He will be replaced by Dmitry Goldin, a member of Royal’s senior leadership team for the last decade.

After more than four years with LPL, veteran independent broker-dealer marketing executive Marissa Fox Foley has joined First Allied Securities in a newly created role as senior managing director of marketing.

“There’s a huge shift this year from last year in overall optimism from the advisors,” says Mark Schoenbeck, senior vice president of marketing for Curian Capital, the asset management firm that conducted the 2013 Curian Capital Survey. “It was a pretty big swing.”

The Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., wealth management firm announced Monday it will acquire Silver Bridge Advisors of Boston, forming a $3.4 billion RIA to join the growing list of independent advisory firms hoping to establish a national footprint.

Financial advisors are setting aside their doubts and embracing the recovery.

Like any good advisor, Dave Grant has some tasks he is happy to handle, and other things he needs to outsource. How do you determine one from the other?

The firm appointed Alynn Eubanks, who will be responsible for overseeing the advisory platforms.