Recruiting

The firm typically trains its own advisors in lieu of recruiting talent from the competition.

The recruits include a father-son duo from UBS.

The advisor switched firms only to see his new employer close shop 18 months later.

Planners — and RIAs that want to hire them — have faced hurdles tied to client solicitation rules.

The regional broker-dealer is among the industry’s most aggressive recruiters.

Rivals will be waiting to seize on any changes that may irk some 4,400 representatives poised to operate under a new parent IBD network.

The record level of transactions — as well as long-term industry shifts — often prompt advisors and other wealth management professionals to assess their options.

The advisors left Wells Fargo, signaling Stifel’s recruiting push will extend into 2020.

Among the new recruits is an 11-person team.

More often than not, wirehouses were on the losing side of these moves.