Wells Fargo Advisors Financial Network

Reps recommended complex investments without restrictions, the regulator said.

The firm's advisor ranks increased slightly during the third quarter, ending three consecutive periods of decline.

Veteran advisers with $437M in AUM 'set out to find something different.'

The firm’s newest team left Wells Fargo’s independent channel.

The recruits left Morgan Stanley and UBS to go with the independent channel at Wells Fargo.

Plus: A Morgan Stanley grab totals $410 milllion in combined AUM and more than 30 other job changes.

The regulator said "significant deficiencies" affected hundreds of millions of records.

The new recruits joined from Merrill Lynch and Morgan Stanley.

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

The planners left J.P. Morgan, UBS and Merrill Lynch to go into business for themselves.

The recruits left rival firms such as UBS and J.P. Morgan to join existing practices at the independent broker-dealer.

Plus, Wells Fargo hires a $700M team from J.P. Morgan Private Bank and helps a $587M Morgan Stanley team go independent.

The group includes two recruits who began their careers in the late 1970s.

Four elite advisers who left the independent channel to launch their own RIA deliver blow to Wells Fargo's target of a best-ever recruiting year.

Also, J.P. Morgan saw a team managing $300 million in client assets go independent.

Former Edward Jones advisor says he left for the freedom to own and market his own eponymous firm as he wishes.

Concerns about the new fiduciary rule helped propel the move, along with a drop in LPL service, an adviser says.

The two veteran wirehouse advisers joined Wells Fargo's independent broker-dealer.