Recruiting

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The wirehouse's three newest recruits are all industry veterans.

Peter Danilaitis worked at Home Depot almost a dozen years ago. Building on that experience, he's become one of the top leaders in wealth management.

"The key to success in this deal was finding the right partner," says Haig Ariyan, president of the firm's new Alex. Brown division.

Set the firm’s tone through these imperatives and give a copy to employees in the final interview.

The regional firm's new recruits have experience in designing corporate equity compensation plans.

Three advisers joined the firm's Advisor Select channel, where they are employees but can make additional business-decisions for their practice.

The firm's newest recruits come from boutique brokerage J.P. Morgan.

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The firm's newest recruits generated $3.6 million in annual revenue.

Planners who are agile enough can easily decide on what's best for them: switching to wirehouses, other large brokerages or going independent. Also, moving quickly may help them land the best deals, says a recruiting consultant.

The group includes two recruits who began their careers in the late 1970s.

The recruit joined a practice opened by a former complex director from the same wirehouse.

The wirehouse advisers generated a combined $2 million in annual revenue at the time of their departure.

The veteran supervisor got his start at Merrill Lynch in the early 1980s.

Plus, Benjamin F. Edwards and Ameriprise each add recruits with more than $600M in combined AUM, and Morgan loses a $500M group.

The advisers, one of whom is a former football coach, are among the first to join the wirehouse since UBS unveiled sweeping changes to its comp plan.