Independent BDs

St. Louis-based Buckingham Asset Management has added JWA Financial Group of Dallas in its latest acquisition.

To continue its expansion in Atlanta, United Capital announced Monday it bought the majority of the assets of Atlanta-based PPA Advisors.

The nation’s largest independent broker-dealer is partnering up to enhance its recently launched online retirement planning services platform.

Industry veteran Steve Dunlap, who previously held two top jobs at Bank of New York Mellon, is joining Cetera Financial Group as executive vice president, wealth management.

FINRA has censured Securities America and fined it $100,000 for making inaccurate and misleading statements to clients via emails.

LPL Financial hired an ex-SEC official as its new general counsel as the firm continues to restructure its management team.

After seven years with another independent broker-dealer, an Omaha, Neb,. team has returned to Securities America.

LPL Financial, the nation’s largest independent broker-dealer, has reached $50 billion in total RIA assets under custody, doubling its year-ago total.

Less than a week after landing another Morgan Stanley advisor, Raymond James has lured a Midwestern group with over $240 million in assets under management from Morgan Stanley to its independent-broker dealer.

RCAP CEO Nick Schorsch says the deal could be a "tipping point" in a new wave of private equity investment in independent broker-dealers.

First Allied Holdings, an independent broker-dealer, is set to be acquired by RCAP Holdings.

John Hancock Financial Network is picking up another 280 registered representatives?with the acquisition of Symetra Investment Services.

Industry leaders will gather in Palm Beach, Fla., for TD Ameritrade's advisor conference to discuss wealth management trends and the future of financial advice regulation.

A National Financial Partners Corp. shareholder sued to block the firm’s $1.3 billion sale to Madison Dearborn Partners LLC’s, a Chicago-based private equity firm.

Commonwealth Financial Network, the nation’s largest privately held independent broker-dealer, named Rich Hunter president and chief operating officer on Friday and also announced new affiliation models for its nearly 1,500 financial advisors.

Payden & Rygel is looking to tap into the broker dealer channel with a new partnership.

Financial Planning released its annual list of the largest independent broker-dealers in June. Here's a list of the top 28 smaller firms based on revenue.

LPL hired Michelle Oroschakoff as chief risk officer and managing director.

Art Tambaro, president and CEO of Royal Alliance Associates, (left) one of four independent broker-dealers owned by AIG’s Advisor Group, will retire at the end of the year. He will be replaced by Dmitry Goldin, a member of Royal’s senior leadership team for the last decade.

After more than four years with LPL, veteran independent broker-dealer marketing executive Marissa Fox Foley has joined First Allied Securities in a newly created role as senior managing director of marketing.