Independent BDs

Carolyn Clancy, head of the BD segment, says its 200 client firms need more tools and capabilities in a new era of wealth management.

Joseph Mazzucco and at least two dozen other advisors affiliated with the No. 1 IBD in eight moves over a seven-week span.

Beyond eye-popping prices and assets changing hands, record M&A is altering the structure of the industry.

Billy Ricketts is most likely the elder stateswoman of wealth management — but she and her grandson believed it was time for something new.

Blucora’s Avantax Wealth Management combines two firms that took competing approaches to serving tax professionals branching into wealth management.

The IBD’s corporate RIA didn’t require about 350 banks to provide clients the terms of its arrangement.

Triad Hybrid Solutions has added 31 advisors and $1.3 billion in AUM since the beginning of last year.

CEO James Poer seeks a different approach from rivals under the IBD’s new ownership.

The breakaways join 72 others who moved their practices to the firm in the second quarter.

Atria Wealth Solutions firm Sorrento Pacific recruited a half dozen new advisors in the acquisition and succession-fueled move.