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Northwest Savings Bank in Warren, Pa., has agreed to acquire a financial advisory firm and an employee benefits and consulting insurance company.

A growing number of firms are bringing on COOs & CFOs -- and looking outside the industry for help.

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HighTower has picked off $320 million New York-based Merrill Lynch team LCK Wealth Management for the partnership’s third addition in as many weeks.

An SEC advisory committee on Friday recommended that the commission appeal to Congress for authority to collect user fees from advisors to enhance its oversight of the RIA sector and enact rules to tighten regulation of broker-dealers.

The Financial Services Institute, a trade group representing independent broker-dealers and advisors, has elected two new IBD execs to its 2014 board.

Two Florida advisors have been charged with defrauding their clients, including many retirees, in an offshore fraud scam.

Why one firm scrapped its old minimum asset requirements and created a new client division.

G. Moffett Cochran, co-founder and chief executive officer of Silvercrest Asset Management Group Inc., a New York-based firm catering to wealthy families, which went public in June, has died. He was 63.