Independent BDs

This is the first career move by Angie Messer and Greg Rust, who worked at the regional BD for 10 and 27 years, respectively.

Private Advisor Group is “cautiously optimistic” it could recruit a dozen teams with about $500 million in AUM each this year, an executive says.

Talent appears to be pouring from the wirehouse as more planners exit.

The LearnVest founder left the insurance giant and No. 6 IBD, in her latest surprise move after the firm shut down the startup’s online planning services.

The deal for Next Financial would grow the firm's portfolio in the sector to nearly 2,000 reps.

The No. 1 IBD is marshaling transition assistance, technology and other resources toward recruiting success across the firm and its bank channel.

Investigators say the onetime FiNet branch manager preyed on “particularly vulnerable” clients, including several with dementia.

The decision by Carson Group’s CEO came after a two-year examination of the business revealed some changes that needed to be made.

The IBD network’s parent repurchased the majority of Dr. Phillip Frost’s shares just before the SEC filed proposed settlements of its pump-and-dump case.

In this circus of an industry, what chance does an average investor have of finding somebody who will actually work on his or her behalf?

The advisors joined the firm’s employee and independent broker-dealer units.

In an internal memo, CEO James Poer pledges that any change to the firm’s capital structure "would be made with your business in mind first."

“I don’t want to call a helpline, I want a partnership,” the advisor says of her move to the firm, which expects to hit record gross recruited production.

The program could connect 4.9 million brokerage accounts to firms selected for the advisor network.

The No. 1 IBD’s advisory AUM flows show results from the company’s efforts to reward advisors for choosing its custody instead of outside firms.

Former Securities America rep Hector May carried out a 20-year scam through his outside RIA, according to prosecutors

The 50 largest teams and OSJs to change their affiliations show both the threat to incumbent firms posed by RIAs and the scale afforded by acquisitions.

The IBD and its subsidiaries’ 2,300 advisors appear to be facing a sale by its parent, with bidding reported to be starting as soon as next week.

Evan Guido is looking to partner more closely with CPAs.

Independent Advisor Alliance and Private Advisor Group — two of the firm’s largest hybrid RIAs — say they’ve added billions in clients assets from IFP.