Recruiting

The new recruits are opening a new office for the independent firm.

The branch is staffed by 22 advisers, most of whom are recent recruits from Credit Suisse.

The UBS Americas president explains why he thinks the industry's pursuit of top talent has gone too far.

The Gryphon Group generated $1.3 million in production before leaving the wirehouse.

Firms that want to grow put each employee to work around that goal. In time, the culture will become one that prizes new initiatives.

Analysts and industry insiders are divided as to what impact the wirehouse's revamped plan may have on rival firms and breakaway advisers.

Hiring young planners is one thing but keeping them happy is another.

President Tom Naratil says the firm will recruit less, spend more on advisers already at the firm and give additional power to branch managers.

The recruit was overseeing 100 advisers responsible for $15 billion in client assets before joining the breakaway firm.

Prior to her financial services career, the recruit was a U.S. Army reservist working as a Russian linguist.

Converging movements – fiduciary, technological and demographic – mean new realities for how a planner will act like a professional.

The adviser, who has more than 30 years of industry experience, left to join Noyes.

The wirehouse's latest recruit generated about $1.9 million in production.

The recruit had $1.8 million in annual production before making the move, the regional BD said.

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The firm's newest recruit is a veteran broker from Morgan Stanley.

The new recruits joined the wirehouse from Merrill Lynch and UBS.

Two veteran advisers joined the independent firm, which is affiliated with Raymond James.

Yet that wasn't Merrill's only recruiting success, as the wirehouse also picked up a team overseeing more than $500 million in client assets.

The firm's latest acquisition is MacDougall MacDougall & MacTier, known as 3Macs, and which was founded in 1849.