Recruiting

It’s the second biggest move in 2019, and includes an advisor featured in On Wall Street’s Top 40 Under 40.

On the losing side of this exchange: Wells Fargo, UBS and Merrill Lynch.

The ex-Northwestern Mutual advisors dropped their broker registrations, selecting the TAMP and platform’s services in the process.

The firm's top recruiter explained its approach to helping advisors keep up with a rapidly changing profession.

Judge temporarily barred the advisor from soliciting former clients ahead of a FINRA arbitration hearing.

The new hires come from rivals Merrill Lynch, Wells Fargo and RBC.

Integrated Partners added a family office practice eyeing wirehouse breakaways as part of a dozen recruiting grabs for the No. 1 IBD and its OSJs.

The wirehouse brought on 10 advisors from several rivals.

Wells Fargo welcomed 22 active duty members to its corporate office as part of a corporate fellowship program.

The IBD’s head of practice management says more planners should explore becoming ensembles, and she also divulged the firm’s “secret sauce.”

The firm also opened a new branch office to house its recruits.

The firm hasn’t made any decisions about advisor retention bonuses, but some top shareholders will earn tens of millions of dollars once the deal closes.

The firm has picked up 19 advisors and opened six offices this year.

The new hires came at the expense of Merrill Lynch and Wells Fargo.

Washington Trust warned that it could lose $3 million in annual revenue after two top advisers left to join a brokerage firm. Other banks are facing similar hits.

Fresh off rebranding its wealth management business to Avantax, the firm aims to support its smaller but more productive force.

The regional BD has been picking off talent from its largest wirehouse rivals on its recent hiring streak.

Advisors keep fleeing the wirehouses but given a fair deal, established RIAs make a good landing pad, observers say.

The bank has filed similar lawsuits this year over alleged non-solicitation violations against advisors who departed for competitors.

The advisors opened Stifel's 17th new branch office this year.