Financial institutions

Regional brokerages and firms that assist breakaway advisors have been picking off top talent at the wirehouses.

The regional broker-dealer added four new advisors to the 32 recruits picked up this year alone.

The regional firm has been a recruiting tear, picking up a number of ex-wirehouse teams.

In the last month, RBC has hired six teams from wirehouses and other regional firms.

One advisor says the fiduciary rule prompted the latest wirehouse exit to an RIA.

Three quarters of the firm’s 57 new recruits have come from the largest firms.

The regional broker-dealer adds another team to its roster while wirehouses continue to scale back on recruiting.

With these latest additions, the regional firm furthers its Southeast expansion.

The new hires are the latest recruits to join the regional firm.

Smaller brokerages are benefiting in big ways from cutbacks at three of the four largest firms.

Phil Shaffer says changes in the business necessitated a career change if he was to maintain an edge in serving clients.

The broker claims in filings that he was harassed by the bank, culminating in his firing in February of last year.

The mishandling of the two former employees’ complaints, detailed in documents and by former OSHA officials, raises questions about the government’s treatment of whistleblowers throughout the financial services industry.

Two of the groups joined the regional firm from Morgan Stanley.

Dan Rothenberg of UBS says it's given his team an "easier hurdle to be beat rather than a benchmark."

"You know the industry that we're in, it's very much word-of-mouth," says Morgan Stanley's Fulvio Urbinati.

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