RIAs

Snowden Capital Advisors has added two advisor teams, the DiCiaccio Group and the LaMothe-Gonzalez Group.

Symmetry Partners, a registered investment advisory based in Glastonbury, Conn., announced the release of a new mobile application for its financial advisor clients on Tuesday.

To help its advisors grow their businesses, Cetera Financial Group is bringing on a fleet of new advisory and product sales consultants. The added manpower is intended to give each consultant and sales manager more time to provide in-person and virtual support to advisors as the firm re-engineers its advisor support regions, according to Cetera.

Securities and advisory firm, Multi-Financial Securities Corporation, announced today the signing of two new advisors, Dave Strunc and Nicholas Russell, founders of Sunrise Wealth Advisors, an Orlando, FL, based advisory firm.

The RIA channel is growing rapidly as firms with more than $1 billion in assets continues to drive growth, according to a report from Cerulli & Associates.

National Advisors Trust has launched an upgraded version of AdvisorDesk, the firm’s proprietary multi-custodian technology platform.

Securities America announced Thursday that managing partner of Kelley & Mullis Wealth Management, Michael Mullis, has become a registered representative with the independent broker-dealer firm.

Winners of Charles Schwab’s seventh annual Impact Awards were announced Thursday at Schwab’s Impact conference in Chicago. Walter Bettinger, Schwab president and chief executive officer, and Bernie Clark, executive vice president and head of Schwab Advisor Services, took the stage to present the three awards.

Charles Schwab's Advisor Services group is planning to launch an internship program next year to help registered investment advisory firms develop and find new talent.

The Schwab IMPACT 2012 Conference opened Tuesday in Chicago. The annual gathering of independent investment advisors, now in its 21st year, will go on through Friday bringing together the industry’s best and brightest advisors.