Financial institutions

Two Merrill Lynch advisors left the wirehouse for independent firm Snowden Lane Partners.

An advisor at RBC has been promoted and will oversee six wealth managers.

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But while quarterly earnings at the company's wealth management unit dropped 7% from the previous quarter, they were up 30% year-over-year.

The seven-member group left Morgan Stanley to join Wells Fargo.

Raymond James lured away a Morgan Stanley advisor managing more than $85 million in client assets.

Client assets top $2 trillion, although representative head count is down 2.3% on the year.

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Two advisors left Wells Fargo to join Stifel.

Net income for Bank of America's wealth management division slid to $706 million for the fourth quarter from $778 million for the year ago period.

An advisor managing more than $188 million in client assets joined Raymond James & Associates.

Net income for the unit hit $514 million for the fourth quarter, helping boost overall earnings, the firm reported.

Raymond James lured away a UBS advisor managing more than $120 million in assets.

Anastasios "Tommy" Belesis, the former head of John Thomas Financial, was barred from the brokerage industry for life by FINRA for trading ahead of clients' orders.

An Edward Jones advisor managing more than $114 million in client assets joined the Raymond James independent channel.

Two advisors left RBC to join Raymond James' employee channel.

Advisors in the Midwest and on the West Coast noticed information from their accounts on Pastebin, a website notoriously used for posting hacked or leaked information.

Stifel Nicolaus lured away a 36-year veteran advisor from RBC.

U.S. Capital Advisors recruited a veteran Wells Fargo advisor who previously managed $550 million in assets as part of a three-person team.