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Banking products and lending services helped boost the firm's bottom line even as advisor headcount continued to fall.

Will the trickle of advisors leaving Barclays for rival firms turn into a flood?

The advisor managed nearly half a billion dollars in client assets while at Barclays.

With the addition of the new recruits, Faubourg Private Wealth Advisors now has seven former J.P. Morgan advisors.

The advisors managed a combined $278 million in client assets.

Even as a first step for clients seeking information on advisors, BrokerCheck is under scrutiny by advocacy groups.

Regulators have cracked down on LPL advisors in Massachusetts for using terms like "Retirement Specialist" and "Retirement Income Planning Specialist" -- while its planners use them elsewhere.

Two UBS advisors left the Swiss-owned wirehouse to rejoin Merrill Lynch.

Though the firm's revenue growth was tepid, the advisor ranks at the wirehouse expanded by 187 advisors, according to Bank of America which reported second quarter earnings for its wealth management unit.

Advisors failed to win FINRA arbitration case for compensatory damages in excess of $5 million for a number of grievances.

After announcing 11% growth in net income for the wirehouse's brokerage unit, Wells Fargo executives told analysts that they are thinking of launching a robo advisor.

Barclays lost another team, this time to Morgan Stanley, while its deal to sell its U.S. wealth management operations to Stifel is pending.

Which independent broker-dealers have the most female advisors?

The wirehouse rolled out a new advertising campaign aiming to bolster its image in the eyes of clients as a goals-based wealth management firm.

Which independent broker-dealers have the most female advisors?

LPL aims to serve retirement plan assets of large RIAs, some of its strongest competitors in non-retirement plan advisory work.

Tash Elwyn, president of Raymond James & Associates, says recent recruiting milestones have "triggered a number of inquiries" from advisors thinking of making a move.

The nation's seventh largest credit union moved its investment program to CUSO Financial Services drawn in part by its technology systems and accessibility.

The moves represent another blow to Barclays, which lost five advisors in advance of a pending deal to sell its U.S. wealth management operations to Stifel.

These independent broker-dealers reported the highest portion of top-shelf advisors.