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Five financial advisors left Lakeland Bank and Raymond James for Affinity Federal Credit Union prior to the $1.3 billion acquisition of their prior institution.

Morgan Stanley supplanted JPMorgan Chase atop the rankings of the biggest compensation for head executives across wealth management.

Level Four Group recruited a wealth program from its onetime brokerage as it made progress on its goal of doubling in size by 2025.

BMO's acquisition of Bank of the West is delivering the firm its seventh recruiting or M&A move of at least $1 billion in 2023.

Only Charles Schwab out of a dozen major wealth management firms answered a series of questions about their clients' increasingly important liquid assets.

CG Advisor Network leaves Geneos Wealth and changes its primary custodian from Schwab's TD Ameritrade.

The case offered the latest example of a serious prison term for financial exploitation of older adults — a problem experts say is even bigger than the sobering statistics.

Five financial advisors with $1.45 billion in client assets and seven support staff members moved to the independent brokerage's breakaway channel.

The largest independent brokerage's four-year-old Services Group generates a level of business comparable to many midsize wealth management firms.

FINRA arbitrators approved the expungement of client complaints that had already led to significant payments as the SEC considers a new rule reforming the process.

The current share of 84% of the industry's holdings at Charles Schwab, Fidelity, Pershing and LPL may not stay so big forever, according to Cerulli Associates.

Wealthcare Advisory, an LPL hybrid RIA, deployed its private equity capital and planning technology to reach record levels of client assets and financial advisors.

The largest independent broker-dealer is also "on a journey" to reach more high net worth clients through new tools under development, CEO Dan Arnold said.

The mother-daughter team sold their practice to SageView Advisory after deciding that they needed to shed some tasks in order to spend more time with customers.

The former broker's last-ditch effort to convince a former friend and victim that his money was secretly invested and doing well only led to more charges.

The recruiting and M&A transactions bring another record year to the finish line ahead of an expected slowdown in 2023.

Advisor Group surpassed LPL at the top of the list, but consolidation, complexity and change remained the key themes in a highly competitive channel in 2022.

Advisor Group, Ameriprise, Cetera, Commonwealth, LPL and Raymond James are getting bigger and streamlining a crowded field of business as they go.

After helping to build up the largest IBD over more than a dozen years each with the firm, they've landed in recruiting and financial advisor support roles.

The incoming recruits from midsize rival LaSalle St. come as the top IBD sets headcount records and acquires the $40-billion asset Financial Resources Group.