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The dispute reflects a growing strain on the protocol as many firms are moving to set stricter in-house rules.

Compensation, top producers, elite branch managers, investments trends -- it's all here in a roundup of the 10 most-viewed photo galleries from 2015.

The new recruit moved to the employee side of the regional broker-dealer.

Planners who remain in a position of control, whether employed at the wirehouses or regional broker-dealers, or operating as independents, can maintain client loyalty in troubled times, says recruiter Mark Elzweig.

Raymond James' Judson Potter says he learned a lot about perseverance by watching his mother go through medical school.

Vineer Bhansali is leaving Pimco, where he was a managing director specializing in quantitative portfolios, to start his own investment firm.

Anthony Percora, a former SEC attorney, will develop all policies and procedures related to the firm's compliance program.

A former wirehouse advisor has been building a new firm from the ground up.

The fast-growing financial firm acquired an RIA and pulled over a wirehouse team.

More than two dozen teams managing $1 billion or more in client assets switched firms this year. See where they landed.

The new recruits moved over to the independent side of the wirehouse.

After losing dozens of advisors who managed billions in client assets to UBS, scorned Credit Suisse strikes back with legal challenge.

A father and son along with their team leave the independent broker-dealer to join the employee side at Ameriprise.

David Sawyer will lead a team dedicated to developing and executing strategies to grow BMO's trust business in Delaware.

Credit Suisse lost another advisor, this time to rival boutique J.P. Morgan Securities.

Morgan Stanley recruited two advisors who oversaw nearly $120 million in client assets.

The recruit and his brother form a team at the wirehouse to revive their retired father's advisor group.

Thomas Melcher, managing executive of PNC's ultrahigh-net-worth wealth management unit, will assume his new role on Jan. 1, succeeding James Dunigan, who retires next year.

The wirehouse added several new recruits to the firm's offices in Boston, Chicago and Cincinnati.

Two advisors with $136 million in client assets left the wirehouse to join the regional B-D.