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Also this month in our disciplinary digest, a frequent CNBC analyst is sentenced to five years in prison for defrauding investors, and a former Fidelity advisor faced charges after borrowing millions from clients.

The group of rapidly expanding firms includes mainstays like LPL Financial, but also smaller upstarts that are enlarging their footprints at a notable clip.

Fueled by the rise of artificial intelligence and its associated infrastructure, many technology ETFs have experienced phenomenal growth.

Modern Wealth also takes on $1B in AUM through two acquisitions, and LPL hires a chief data, AI officer from JPMorgan.

Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon joined JPMorgan's Jamie Dimon in a tie atop the executive compensation rankings for the industry's largest publicly traded firms.

In a big week for industry recruiting, Stifel lands practices managing $2.9 billion at Merrill, Merrill recruits a $1.9 billion team from Raymond James and Rockefeller pulls part of a $2.3 billion team from UBS.

UBS and RBC lowered their payout rates for advisors on the low end of the revenue production scale.

UBS and Janney Montgomery Scott both made changes to compensation for advisors producing at the $600,000 level.

See which firms are paying advisors with $1 million in annual revenue the most.

In our final installment on broker compensation in 2025, learn which firms are paying advisors with $2 million in annual revenue the most.