RIAs

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The RIA boosts its platform, loses top execs and faces wary advisors.

Advisor "reaped substantial profits" from 65 clients by using block accounts, the regulator says.

The Raymond James affiliated firm has been aggressively recruiting from wirehouses in recent months.

The products seek risk and return objectives through factor exposures such as minimum volatility, value, momentum, liquidity and quality.

The brokers previously worked at Wells Fargo, which has suffered from attrition to smaller rivals over the past year.

“Serving the investment needs and opportunities unique to clients who reside outside of the U.S. has become increasingly complex,” the firm said.

As investment management becomes a supporting service, software providers are facing disruption.

“We’re going from a Civic to a Cadillac,” advisor says of the move.

The high-net-worth and ultrahigh-net-worth segments are growing globally “faster than we can grow advisors to cover them.”