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A former Morgan Stanley advisor must pay the firm nearly $200,000 in owed bonuses, FINRA ruled.

Halé Behzadi will oversee the bank's offices in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, Orange County, Palo Alto, Phoenix, San Francisco and Seattle.

Raymond James & Associates recruited a wirehouse advisor who generated over $1 million in revenue, managing more than $120 million in assets.

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

Wunderlich Securities is growing, picking up Dominick & Dominick, a New York-based brokerage firm with a long history on Wall Street.

The profitability of alts for investment managers and product originators promises that the deluge of alternative investment opportunities will continue.

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

A FINRA arbitration panel ruled a broker caught in an insider trading scandal must pay back over $3 million to Morgan Stanley.

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

FINRA has issued a long-awaited regulatory notice outlining the proposal for a controversial data-sharing system known as CARDS, asking for comments from the industry and other stakeholders.

At an advisor summit, the industry group urges members to reach out individually to lawmakers to fight regulatory plans.

Bank of America agreed to pay $7.65 million to settle U.S. regulatory claims that it overstated its capital by billions of dollars after failing to report losses tied to its 2009 purchase of Merrill Lynch & Co.

Raymond James' annual Women's Symposium, to be held Oct. 8, is due to feature leading women in the financial services industry, including Sallie Krawcheck.

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

Alternative investments have been growing rapidly in popularity in recent years as new funds have been mushrooming and money has been flowing in. Andy Saperstein, Morgan Stanley’s head of investment products and services, explains the wirehouse’s history of working with alts and Morgan’s current approach to leveraging them in client portfolios.

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

Raymond James has landed a former UBS advisor with more than $125 million in client assets and more than $800,000 in annual fees and commissions.

Mention bankruptcy on a Form U4 and there's no erasing it, even if you settle your debts.

The SEC has initiated an administrative proceeding against an advisor who allegedly misappropriated around $2 million of investors' funds in a scheme dating to 2008.

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