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Advisers who are attentive will find that they retain their books of business.

One of the recruits began his career in the late 1980s.

Young upstarts have to take a long, hard look at their business models and make key investments as the market cools off.

Plus, Wells Fargo hires a $700M team from J.P. Morgan Private Bank and helps a $587M Morgan Stanley team go independent.

A settlement with Bank of America covers 270 employees who were terminated following the wealth management firm's 2008 acquisition.

The penalty is the largest ever imposed by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

Competing in his first triathlon helped John Pierce discover the direction he needed to succeed in wealth management.

Three advisers joined the firm's Advisor Select channel, where they are employees but can make additional business-decisions for their practice.

The firm's newest recruits come from boutique brokerage J.P. Morgan.

How Todd Sacks joined an elite ranking of wealth management supervisors.

The firm's newest recruits generated $3.6 million in annual revenue.

Planners who are agile enough can easily decide on what's best for them: switching to wirehouses, other large brokerages or going independent. Also, moving quickly may help them land the best deals, says a recruiting consultant.

The group includes two recruits who began their careers in the late 1970s.

The recruit joined a practice opened by a former complex director from the same wirehouse.

The wirehouse is also reorganizing how it deploys a number of product and service consultants and technology specialists.

The wirehouse advisers generated a combined $2 million in annual revenue at the time of their departure.

The case, filed on behalf of an on-call branch office manager who works with advisers, follows similar retirement plan-related litigation recently filed against other firms, including Morgan Stanley.

Veteran Jason Miller was named to a new post as head of Wealth Planning in the U.S. He is supported by four regional leaders who are also new to their roles.

Plus, Benjamin F. Edwards and Ameriprise each add recruits with more than $600M in combined AUM, and Morgan loses a $500M group.

The advisers, one of whom is a former football coach, are among the first to join the wirehouse since UBS unveiled sweeping changes to its comp plan.