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Northwestern Mutual, the nation’s 7th largest independent broker-dealer by total-revenue, announced Wednesday it has hired more than 1,100 financial representatives so far this year, and nearly 3,000 financial representative interns.

The acquisition comes just nine days after United Capital acquired an Atlanta wealth manager and is the latest example of the firm’s aggressive, Starbucks-inspired expansion strategy.

Sanctuary Wealth Services, a San Francisco-based platform provider and services support firm for wealth managers, has snagged a Morgan Stanley breakaway team specializing in proprietary asset management.

F-Squared Investments has appointed Paul Gamble as head of F-Squared Retirement Solutions, responsible for F-Squared's customized and private labeled target date strategies and funds, collective trust funds and sub-advisory partnerships in the retirement market.

Nuveen Asset Management’s Chief Equity Strategist and Senior Portfolio Manager Bob Doll is taking on a new slate of funds including traditional, specialty, and alternative funds.

iShares has expanded its suite of iSharesBonds with four new corporate term exchange-traded funds, including the iSharesBond 2016 Corporate Term ETF (IBDA), iSharesBond 2018 Corporate Term ETF (IBDB), iSharesBond 2020 Corporate Term ETF (IBDC) and the iSharesBond 2023 Corporate Term ETF (IBDD).

Massachusetts sent subpoenas to 15 brokerages including units of Bank of America Corp., Morgan Stanley and Wells Fargo & Co. as it investigates alternative- investment sales to seniors.

Mutual funds experienced outflows of $4.89 billion for week ended Tuesday, July 2, according to the Investment Company Institute.

In June, U.S. exchange-traded fund outflows topped $10 billion, as investors withdrew $6.2 billion from fixed income ETFs and $6 billion from emerging market ETFs, according to State Street Global Advisor’s latest ETF Snapshot report.

The Deloitte Center for Financial Services has added Lynette DeWitt as a research manager, focused on asset management.

A FINRA panel ruled Wells Fargo’s lack of supervision allowed a third party to syphon funds from a client account.

Francis Picarelli has been promoted from vice president to senior vice president at consulting shop Segal RogerCasey.

Banks could boost the profitability of their wealth management programs if they integrated their private banking, trust and brokerage businesses.

Three new reports suggest that the wealth management industry still needs improvement — and hint at a slowdown after recent growth.

One key element separates the fastest-growing RIA firms from their peers, according to a new Schwab report.

One expert predicts that at least half of the top 30 U.S. banks will move advisors to a salary-based compensation system in the next two to three years.

Advisors remain very bullish on U.S. equities and plan to allocate a greater percentage of their clients’ portfolios to the asset class over the next six months, according to a new survey by Aberdeen Asset Management.

The Vanguard Group had its first monthly redemptions in almost 20 years in June as investors sold bond funds in anticipation of the Federal Reserve scaling back its asset purchases.

The Boston company said it is realigning to better serve advisors in the independent, bank, broker-dealer and family office channels.