OSJs

Bill Hamm’s Independent Financial Partners has grown more than fivefold in 10 years with the No. 1 IBD.

The Advisor Group IBD added three new teams, but state regulators required enhanced oversight of one new recruit.

The deal is only the first step in a major growth plan, according to the acquiring firm’s founder.

The No. 9 IBD has emerged as one of the major players in a tough recruiting fight after the massive acquisition.

An advisor who is a former ballplayer set ambitious goals for 2021 with an alternate take on the hybrid strategy.

A FINRA arbitration panel concluded that the No. 1 IBD made false and defamatory statements in its U5 filings.

The firm is tapping a pool estimated by LPL to be as large as 1,200 brokers with $35 billion in client assets.

Pole-vaulting advisor Mark Cortazzo’s practice marked at least the second hybrid in three months to leave the firm for Mutual Securities.

The practice’s managing director blamed the No. 1 IBD in part for its move to Securities America.

The fourth largest IBD added a super OSJ with $650 million in AUM.

The firm has signed four big recruiting deals in the past three months.

The Arizona-based firm serves as a super OSJ, supporting advisors who work for 13 affiliated credit unions as either employees or independent financial advisors.

Implementation of fiduciary rule could drive more IBDs to seek safe harbor with large partners.

Here's what smaller firms hoping to get out of the broker-dealer business need to know.

Two of its Royal Alliance firms form a $2.5 billion powerhouse.

The nation's largest IBD vows to take a “proactive approach” to the fiduciary rule.

The firm says it "terminated" its relationship with the large OSJ. It’s the third large split in two months.

Regional directors are “sorry to see Doug go," a Cetera adviser says. Tom Taylor, now COO, will take his place.

Too much growth has led to a slowdown in business efficiencies. Smart firms need to fix their operating models.

Casady provides both consistency and a fresh approach, leaders of the firm's OSJs say.