Ladenburg Thalmann Financial Services

The firm has a particular focus on female clients and empowering women to better control their finances.

The two firms' boosts came amid equity headwinds — and both wealth management units now have nearly 4,400 financial advisors.

Evolution Financial Advisors has grown to 86 advisors with $2.6 billion in client assets under Securities America.

An upcoming integration with AdvicePay marks the first step in a series of changes to recruiting and service at KMS under Erinn Ford.

The Ladenburg IBD failed to spot the red flags of a barred ex-advisor who later pleaded guilty to fraud, former clients say.

Ladenburg Thalmann’s largest IBD also says it recruited more than 300 advisors with $2 billion in AUM in 2018.

Commissions and cash-sweep revenue jumped by more than a combined $100 million in 2018 — even as the parent firm’s longtime chairman left the company.

The group with $175 million in client assets opted for a Ladenburg IBD they think is less likely to change hands in the future, the OSJ manager says.

The network’s parent disclosed the results of its first year under a new accounting standard affecting the top line at many large U.S. businesses.

Securities Service Network is pitching advisors on its tax offerings, access to management and parent-firm resources.

Firms who resist or fail to understand advisors’ needs will lose the game, according to a panel of executives.

The network’s largest subsidiary will support fee-only advisors, and one of its smaller firms is targeting five times its level of recruitment from 2018.

The retirement plan-focused group’s new OSJ had left the No. 1 IBD in 2017 and will grow to 160 advisors under the move.

The IBD network’s parent repurchased the majority of Dr. Phillip Frost’s shares just before the SEC filed proposed settlements of its pump-and-dump case.

Former Securities America rep Hector May carried out a 20-year scam through his outside RIA, according to prosecutors

The 4,300-advisor network is investing in insurance distribution after benefiting from rising interest rates and record client assets.

The group opted to join the corporate RIA at the Ladenburg IBD with an eye toward greater independence with some outsourced tasks.

Dick Lampen says the SEC charges against Dr. Phillip Frost, the firm’s primary shareholder, won’t affect its “significant” other resources.

Dr. Phillip Frost, the principal shareholder of the IBD network’s parent firm, has stepped down, giving way to CEO Richard Lampen.

The agency says the biotech magnate and nine others made $27 million pumping up penny stocks.