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Janet Robinson is the first woman to join the 8-member board of the independent firm founded by wirehouse managers and affiliated with Raymond James Financial Services.

Worries about a tidal wave of retiring advisors may be overblown, say some wealth management executives.

The St. Louis-based firm said that Reed, Gates, Strait Wealth Management Group has joined the company with an office in Lexington, Ky.

RBC enticed away a Merrill Lynch team managing $103 million in assets.

Frank Campanale, CEO of Lebenthal Wealth Advisors and a former executive at Smith Barney, spells out the key elements in firm's growth plans and recruiting strategy: brand, equity stakes and passion.

Worldwide, the number of people with $30 million or more to invest -- the kind of folks who would hire a family office -- rose 15.6% to 128,300 in 2013. See which firms manage the most assets.

Washington Wealth Management lured away an advisor managing $100 million in assets and who had been at the wirehouse for three decades.

RCS executive says it “will take some time” to restore normalcy to his embattled firms.

LPL says it has indefinitely suspended sales of investment products sponsored by American Realty Capital and RCS Capital.

RBC Wealth Management lured away a wirehouse advisor managing $116 million in assets from Wells Fargo Advisors.

Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management grabbed a financial advisor from rival Barclays.

Lebenthal Wealth Advisors has recruited a former wirehouse branch manager and two independent advisors to fulfill its growth plans.

An independent advisor managing $165 million has joined Ameriprise's employee channel.

Alex Vicencio, a financial advisor at Wells Fargo, says that building a business one client at a time was the biggest challenge he faced as an advisor in his 20s.

The Denver-based association announced Friday that it has grown in 2014 to more than 10,000 members and certificates worldwide.

Profits are up at wealth management firms, and executives are taking stock of their priorities and goals.

The changing nature of retirement for clients is an opportunity for firms. "They’re still going to need advice, but the advice is going to take on a different form," says Merrill Lynch's John Thiel. "It is moving from investment advice to life advice."

Keith Banks, president of U.S. Trust, is searching for new talent in a unique place: within his own firm.

Stifel has been busy building its business with little public profile. The firm wants to change that, says President and CEO Ronald Kruszewski, who acknowledges that the lack of attention thus far has probably been a good thing. "You want to be famous; you don’t want to be infamous."

In an exclusive set of interviews with On Wall Street, the industry's leading executives talk about how clients' needs are changing, technology is evolving and how firms can keep growing the bottom line.