Financial institutions

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.

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.

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.

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

Recruits from Edward Jones, Morgan Stanley and Barclays leave for the wirehouse.

The firm's wealth management division also reported that pretax operating earnings rose 16% from a year ago.

The wirehouse picked up the Blaustein Clancy Financial Group in New York.

Both wealth managers, who left UBS, also had a combined $289 million in client assets before making the move, RBC said.

One of the advisors managed about $200 million in client assets while working for the wirehouse. The other joins a $500 million team at Janney, the firm said.

Three advisors left the wirehouse to join the independent brokerage network at Wells Fargo.

Total client assets for the wirehouse also rose to a record $2.047 trillion, edging it into the no. 1 spot past rival Merrill Lynch.

Three wirehouse advisors joined RBC to open a new branch office.

An arbitration panel granted the wirehouse's request for damages for breach of contract, but the award fell short of the original $1.4 million the firm sought.

Quartet of advisors with $175M in AUM joins Raymond James' independent operation.

Revenue from wealth and investment services dropped for the fifth consecutive quarter, swooning 10.7% to $7.9 million from $8.8 million a year ago.

Bank of America and its Merrill Lynch unit were sued by two former financial-advisor trainees who claim they weren’t paid overtime for long days and weekend work.