Cetera Financial Group

After investing millions in new platforms and preparing thousands of advisers, executives say they've come too far to reverse course.

Regional directors are “sorry to see Doug go," a Cetera adviser says. Tom Taylor, now COO, will take his place.

Once a top-producing planner at LPL, Carson now possesses a direct line to the CEO.

The executive suite transition has been years in the making.

From regulators to technology providers to CEOs, these are the players who will remake wealth management in 2017.

The broker-dealer's digital offering will be priced "on the lower end of the spectrum," according to top company executives.

The model for financial advice "is primed and ready for change," says Cetera CEO Robert Moore.

The advisers joined the firm's independent and employee channels from rivals such as Morgan Stanley, Wells Fargo and Cetera.

The Korean-American bank will look to the firm to grow its wealth management program and adviser force.

Industry experts survey the field of potential suitors.

With LPL Financial potentially exploring a sale of itself, we look back at some of the biggest deals over the last few years.

The new recruits come from from Merrill Lynch, Cetera and SagePoint Financial.

Lincoln Investment will gain 350 advisers in its acquisition, which CEO Ed Forst foresaw 20 years ago.

See which independent broker-dealers are managing the biggest asset base for client accounts.

An ex-American Realty Capital executive allegedly overstated a key accounting metric by roughly $13 million, according to the SEC and federal prosecutors.

"Given all of the turmoil there, you need to have some consistency in leadership and [Roth] was it," one expert says.

Is Roth on his way out?

The new member of Cetera's executive committee is knee-deep in efforts to ready institutions and their advisers for the implementation of the new regulation.

The upstate New York community bank is looking to the broker-dealer to help expand its investment offerings and wealth management services.

George Merhoff poured his clients' portfolios into a handful of energy stocks that plummeted in value, ex-clients allege in arbitration cases.