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SunTrust's chief risk officer will lead the Consumer Banking and Private Wealth Management business.

An advisor who had been at Merrill Lynch for 20 years left the wirehouse to join UBS.

An advisor who moved to a wirehouse from a boutique offers guidance on finding a firm that will offer greater job satisfaction and also benefit clients.

Barclays lost a team to RBC, the latest defection since the British-owned firm agreed to sell its brokerage unit to Stifel. This is the first to go to a regional brokerage instead of a wirehouse or high-profile boutique.

The new recruits will work in the firm's philanthropic solutions office.

The rep was ejected for failing to cooperate with a FINRA investigation into allegations that she stole money from a retail bank customer.

John Brynjolfsson, after creating an $80 billion asset management business at Pimco and a $1 billion hedge fund on his own, will downsize to a $16 million mutual fund during the next stage of his career.

Credit Suisse's losses include a three-member team that generated $7.2 million in annual revenue, which joined UBS.

Planner Brittney Castro takes an unorthodox route to prospecting young clients and if you don't like it, she's like, you know, cool with that.

John Brynjolfsson, the chief investment officer of Armored Wolf, said he is closing the money management firm to outside investors and converting it into a family office.

A recruit from M.J. Whitman heads to the regional broker's employee channel.

The bank's wealth management group is gearing up for more business in Nevada now that it has the ability to deliver trust services in the state.

A longtime wirehouse advisor with $48 million in AUM has joined regional broker-dealer Wunderlich.

"We can shuffle women from one firm to the next all day long, but we're still going to be at that 15%," says Michelle Lynch, director of Raymond James' Network for Women Advisors.

The group of 5 advisors will be opening a new office for the regional broker.

The team made the move in part to be able to grow in new directions, says senior financial advisor Tommy Boyd.

The team left the wirehouse to form their own independent firm, representing one of the largest groups that Dynasty has helped go independent.

The OAKS Wealth Management Group has a combined $3.2 million in production.

The discussion of what happens to an advisor’s book is parallel to the conversations that advisors should be having with their clients: Prepare for the future and the unexpected, says recruiter Elizabeth McCourt.

"It's like being Superman and Clark Kent," says Michael H. Jacobs, a producing branch manager at RBC.