Cetera Financial Group

The independent wealth management firm made its third significant deal with an insurance firm exiting the industry in the past four years.

The group of 70 financial advisors left Advisor Group's Securities America to focus on expansion with the help of a rival to its prior firm.

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.

The joint project with one of the largest advisory practices in the firm's tax-focused brokerage displays how wealth management firms are backing their OSJs.

Consumer advocates cheered the outcome of the case and the regulator's enforcement push in recent years. Commonwealth's case is still pending.

Private Advisor Group is going through a CEO succession, while $2.5B firm CCR secured financing from the parent of its longtime brokerage.

These are the largest firms with financial advisors who work with broker-dealers but aren't their employees.

A 38-year veteran financial advisor won a significant award in FINRA arbitration after a brokerage claimed he made unauthorized trades.

Teams are taking longer to switch brokerages as the pandemic recedes and advisors return to the office, according to John Pierce, the firm’s head recruiter.