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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.

Wells Fargo reported that even as profits rose, client assets for the firm's retail brokerage unit shrank 4% year-over-year.

Bleakley Financial Group is now using LPL's Private Advisor Group to provide its clients with custodial and broker-dealer services.

Bank of America said profits for its wealth management unit, which includes Merrill Lynch, fell 19% year-over-year. Meanwhile, Merrill's advisor force increased 6%.

To help decide if robo technology is right for you, understand the various capabilities that it can provide and the experience your clients will receive.

Keel Point says it will now manage $150 million in assets in Chattanooga, Tenn.