C-suite

For its annual NOVA awards, NICSA recognized asset managers and executives for operational excellence and product development.

Blucora’s Avantax Wealth Management combines two firms that took competing approaches to serving tax professionals branching into wealth management.

Martin Gilbert helped build Aberdeen Asset Management through dozens of acquisitions starting in the early 1980s.

Charlie Scharf’s most immediate priorities include mending fences with regulators and getting the bank out from under a Fed-imposed asset cap.

Charles Scharf will replace interim chief Allen Parker at the bank.

"Asset managers, like many businesses today, are being asked to do more with less," an executive says.

Internal hire Chuck Hastings will make the move from the firm's asset management division.

The insurer lost four prominent female executives earlier this year in departures CEO John Schlifske called “a step backward.”

After a year marred by huge legal fines, questions about succession planning and a deepening slump in share prices, CEO Sergio Ermotti unveiled a revitalized board and replaced wealth management co-head Martin Blessing.

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The bank's performance puts it behind its largest U.S. competitors this year, signaling frustration in the market over the board’s quiet search.

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Danny Ludeman had worked at the wirehouse from 1999 to 2014.

Reorganization includes the departure of one of the company’s highest paid executives.

Profitability is improving and all divisions, except the firm’s biggest — wealth management — surprised the market on the upside.

The executive's sudden announcement raises questions about whether the company’s retail brokerage platform will compete with advisors.

The exit wasn’t due to any “one thing,” Tim Hockey said.

Analysts and advisors expressed surprise at the announcement.

The interim CEO told analysts Tuesday that the company remains committed to hiring an outsider who isn't connected to its scandals of recent years.

Cathy Bessant is among executives who remain in talks with Wells Fargo, while JPMorgan Chase’s Gordon Smith won’t be taking the job, according to people with knowledge of the situation.