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Morgan Stanley picked up five advisors managing more than $650 million in combined assets from its rivals, according to a spokesperson for the wirehouse.

Wedbush advisor Mark Heiden talks about what drives him: “I want to keep growing and develop the business so my family can carry on the legacy started by my father in the 1950s.”

D.A. Davidson Companies announced that Jim Kerr would replace Bill Johnstone as CEO effective January 2015.

A wirehouse advisor team managing about $400 million in assets has left UBS to join Snowden Lane Partners, an independent firm.

Here are some smart ways to avoid the stress of juggling multiple responsibilities in your practice.

Advisors have trusted the "Bond King" for years, but with Bill Gross's abrupt departure from PIMCO, the firm he founded 43 years ago, the playing field has changed. Here's what you need to know before the dust settles.

Four Wells Fargo advisors have left the wirehouse to join Benjamin Edwards, opening the regional broker-dealer's 49th office.

Two advisors with $80 million in AUM leave Wells Fargo for RBC Wealth Management.

Chad Ragland decided to go into the Army during the Vietnam War instead of teaching English in Tahiti with the Peace Corps (an option that was open). And he's never regretted it.

Female executives from U.S. Trust and Goldman Sachs join New York-based Dynasty Financial Partners.

Schorsch makes big changes to the firm's executive team with a new CEO as well as the hiring of longtime LPL exec Bill Dwyer.

Barclays hired Akshaya Bhargava as chief executive officer of its wealth and investment management business to replace Peter Horrell, who stepped down.

Since taking over in 2010, Moynihan has been negotiator-in-chief. Now he faces an equally daunting challenge: nudging the nation’s second-largest bank back to growth.

Darrel Hackett will be responsible for BMO Financial Group's personal wealth management businesses throughout the United States.

Two former advisors from Fifth Third Private Bank are joining LPL's broker-dealer and custodial platforms as an independent hybrid firm, StreamSong Advisors.

Morgan Stanley hired a team with $4.5 billion in AUM – the second multi-billion-dollar team plucked from Merrill Lynch this month.

Washington Wealth crests $1 billion in AUM by adding Martucci Adams Wealth Advisors of Salt Lake City.

Wells Fargo continues recruiting from UBS, hiring advisors with a combined $410 million in AUM.

A veteran Merrill Lynch advisor with $1.5 million in production joins RBC Wealth Management.

Independent Financial Partners, an LPL firm, tapped a financial services veteran to recruit advisors from the wirehouse channel.