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Cetera also announces the retirement of its longtime CEO at the end of the year.

A judge's opinion is likely to be cited in scores of arbitration cases in which ex-advisors say they are still owed money from big wealth management firms.

In trying to claim the title "No. 1 global wealth manager," Citi is putting a lot of stock in its ability to secure client referrals through its bank. Will it be enough?

RBC Wealth Management pulls wealth teams from Morgan Stanley, and Citi hires a wealth lending head from Goldman Sachs.

Before the injunction, Gary Carruthers is believed to have poached $24.3 million in client assets in breach of a nonsolicitation agreement.

The case is the latest example of what Ameriprise paints as LPL's systematic overstepping of bounds in its advisor recruitment.

An LPL vice president testified that 30 former Ameriprise advisors imported client information for accounts with more than $1 billion under management and $16 million in yearly revenue generation.

Modern Wealth also pushes its AUM over $6 billion with an M&A deal, and Americana Partners of Dynasty Financial gets private equity backing.

The appointment comes less than a month after the former company head, Dan Arnold, was fired for failing to maintain a respectful workplace.

James Gorman will help lead the search for a new Disney CEO to be appointed in 2026.

LPL Financial also pulls advisors from Raymond James, and Raymond James draws from Merrill. Osaic meanwhile appoints a chief financial officer.

The week also saw BlackRock, JPMorgan Asset Management and Charles Schwab take minority stakes in the advisory-support firm Dynasty.

RBC Wealth also reorganized its private client group and appointed a new division head, and UBS named a market leader for its San Francisco business.

Manish Dave, who has been with the firm for 18 years, oversaw a headcount that was formidable but stagnant in recent years.

The former Wells employee says he was basically forced to quit after a series of fumbles by the firm cost him his book of business and brought his pay down to "minimum wage level."

LPL directors terminated CEO Dan Arnold's employment after an outside law firm found comments he had made to employees had violated the firm's code of conduct.

The change, one among several at the firm's top, follows on a year that executives have deemed one of the firm's most difficult in decades.

The 17-person Canell Group joins Wells Fargo's offices in New York.

Along with the big recruiting deals, Dynasty and Gries Financial Partners shook things up at the executive level.

Kaplan rose though the municipal finance department to become one of the first handful of female partners at Goldman Sachs in 1990.