Broker Protocol

The move marks the fifth new office added by the hybrid RIA this year.

Hilliard Lyons, not traditionally known for big recruiting pushes, is expanding.

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A client's alleged complaint sparked a dispute between the wirehouse and its former advisors.

If wirehouses decided to adopt a salary-plus-bonus compensation model, how would they do it?

The trickle of brokers leaving wirehouses for greater independence is quietly becoming a flood.

The 2004 industrywide accord is rocked by changes its founders did not foresee.

Jim Chahine spent the bulk of his 26-year career at Merrill Lynch and Credit Suisse.

Move is the latest in a recruiting streak for the regional broker dealer.

All systems go for more transactions — but the stock market is a wild card.

Advisors may be upset due to the high-handed attitudes of the larger firms, but pulling down six zeroes a year can offset a lot of irritation, says On Wall Street’s annual recruiters roundtable.

"If our profession truly cares about the well-being of our clients to the extent that the profession professes, then we need to swing this pendulum in the other direction," Elwyn says.

The firm pulled in 11 new advisors in the first quarter of 2018, building on the 65 brokers hired last year.

The advisor, a former employee, has been soliciting more than two dozen clients at the bank, JPMorgan says.

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Dean Hoover is the latest advisor to join the Raymond James-affiliated independent firm.

The move comes more than three months after Morgan Stanley and UBS quit the agreement.

It's a sign the firm is still selectively hiring despite leaving the Broker Protocol last year.

"We've been waiting for the finicky sellers and now they're here," says Echelon Partners CEO Dan Seivert.

After both firms exited the Broker Protocol, their attempts to browbeat advisors have largely failed, one recruiter argues.