Independent BDs

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.