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Management is pushing advisors in new directions, implementing more behavioral bonuses and restricting payouts on small household accounts.

The new recruits generated an estimated $1.4 million in combined annual revenue while at Merrill Lynch.

Two wirehouse advisors who oversaw $140 million in assets joined the super regional's employee advisory ranks.

Advisors should understand the personality styles of their branch managers for financial success, job satisfaction and comfort within their own firm.

LPL's net income dropped 4.6%, as the firm recorded $11 million in regulatory and legal bill for the first quarter.

A D.A. Davidson advisor is inspired by his father to join the wealth management business.

The U.S. Senator says she is, "concerned that these incentives present a conflict of interest for agents and financial advisors."

"The bar of expectations among advisors has been raised by their experience with a best-in-class website," says the author of a new report in which advisors ranked fund managers.

After several annual losses and FINRA fines, call center magnate John Sykes to sell JHS Capital to the country's second-largest IBD.

Collectively, the new recruits from Wells Fargo, Morgan Stanley and A.G. Edwards managed a total of $600 million in assets before joining the firm.

A recent coaching seminar has me recalibrating my understanding of practice management. You may need to adjust yours, too.

These leaders are finding it more difficult to keep a balance between advisors and their firms.

Three advisors were stripped of their CFP designations, 13 were suspended and seven were publicly admonished for technical infractions.

After 20 years with UBS, the nearly 40-year industry veteran will now head a Baird branch in the Midwest.

An advisor's move to HighTower sheds light on an issue that bedevils those making the transition: Whether to risk losing partners -- and possibly clients.

The recruit oversaw $160 million in client assets while at Merrill, according to a UBS spokesman.

The group was responsible for about $425 million in client assets.

Better technology, cultural differences and bigger deals have enabled regional firms to recruit more competitively and keep up the momentum.

CEOs, when questioned in recent earnings calls, offered first impressions of the impacts the proposal may have on the industry.

The company's Private Client Group reported a 2% decline in quarterly profits as the firm continued to ramp up its advisor recruiting.