Recruiting

John Hicks, the chief marketing officer of Ausdal Financial Partners, sees his firm's lack of private equity ownership as a big part of its appeal.

The president of the firm's Private Client Group also discusses why advisor headcounts don't mean much anymore and how private equity owners of wealth management firms may have trouble realizing their value propositions.

Also this week, Cetera closes on its purchase of Concourse Financial Group, and Raymond James appoints a head of AI.

U.S. District Judge Susan Brnovich found Ameriprise failed to furnish evidence that data taken by a recently recruited advisory team was going to be used to solicit their clients to LPL.

Also this week, LPL pulls a big team from Raymond James, Merrill from Morgan Stanley and Dynasty from CIBC.

Affiliated Advisors aims to recruit, retain and advance wealth management professionals with resources aimed at three different career stages.

In a legal response, LPL contends it has been sued at least seven times in the past year after recruiting advisors from industry rival Ameriprise.

The RIA aggregators Prime Capital and Corient also made their marks with big acquisitions.

The next CEO of Raymond James talks about how private equity ownership has made for some difficult marriages in wealth management, while a Morgan Stanley exec says asset outflows were unusually high last year.

Cary Carbonaro provided a blueprint for wealth management firms and investors ahead of the looming transfer of tens of trillions of dollars in assets.