Raymond James Financial

On Wall Street honors elite young producers at the regional BDs.

Advisors have been ditching some of the larger firms for greater latitude.

The firm has appointed company veteran Doug Brigman to run the Tampa Bay complex.

Wells Fargo, Merrill Lynch, UBS and Morgan Stanley all lost talent in 2017.

The group, which oversaw approximately $300 million in client assets, joined the firm's independent broker-dealer.

The firm has been driving its expansion, pulling in talent from its competition.

Concerned about the wirehouse's "trajectory," Glen D. Smith sought out a business model his kids could join one day.

The pair was drawn to the firm’s “similarly aligned” culture.

Among FINRA’s findings, it said the broker-dealer “unreasonably excluded” some employees who were handling customer accounts from email scrutiny.

The seven new hires joined both the independent and employee channels.

The UBS advisor switched firms before his old employer officially exited the Broker Protocol.

An industry veteran is among the crowd of talent departing firms that have exited the Broker Protocol.

Some of the new recruits joined from Morgan Stanley just prior to the firm's Broker Protocol exit.

Meet the best of the best in the bank channel. Read about how they approach their jobs, how they serve clients and how they made the list.

The top advisor this year, Brock Kidd from Pinnacle Bank, focuses on well-heeled clients and many of Nashville’s high-profile musicians.

Here we conclude with the fourth and final segment of the Top 100 Bank Advisors. You can see all the other rankings (1-75) in our corresponding slideshows.

Here we present the third segment of the Top 100 Bank Advisors. You can see the top 50, as well as those who ranked 76-100, in our corresponding slideshows.

Here is the second segment of the Top 100 Bank Advisors. Check out the top 25, as well as those who ranked 51-100, in separate slideshows.

A well-rounded approach wins the day with the annual advisor ranking. No one-trick ponies allowed, as multiple metrics count toward advisors' scores, including AUM, production, growth and fee business.

Which banks and credit unions are advisors moving to? Eight recently jumped to Union Bank, Wilmington Trust and other institutions from J.P. Morgan Chase, PNC Bank, Wells Fargo and City National Bank, among others.