Recruiting

Sean Kaligh dropped Wells Fargo for LPL, as more planners leave wirehouses during the pandemic.

The RIA consolidator poached the founding advisor’s practice only about a year after the enterprise closed its BD in its prior move.

After topping $1 billion in client assets, Crewe Advisors completed the first step in its growth strategy.

The practice led by two brothers is the 10th to join Dynasty’s platform in 2021, as more wirehouse teams go independent.

Morgan Stanley, Raymond James, Charles Schwab and Truist aim to fuel long-term shifts in advisor recruitment and retention through a series of new programs.

Fed up with the traditional brokerage training programs, financial advisors are opening more doors right into independent practices.

Cresset added five more advisors to the previous 10 that the megabank claims a founding partner recruited in violation of the terms of his resignation.

Kuttin Wealth Management is four years into an ambitious strategy to build offices nationwide using the model of its founder’s practice.

Penn Mutual-owned Hornor, Townsend & Kent has completed an executive shakeup after its advisor headcount fell by 10% last year.

The wirehouse’s decision to drop foreign business earlier this year has created a recruiting opportunity for its rivals.

Concurrent is having its best recruiting year ever, and the firm’s new managing director of business development aims to boost its expansion even more.

The wealth manager has opened more ways to affiliate with the firm by starting to tap M&A deals with a sizeable pipeline for more in the future.

Financial advisor Alan Kodama’s team aligned with the No. 1 IBD as it reeled in $35 billion in recruited client assets in the second quarter.

Despite fewer incoming advisors, CEO Ron Kruszewski says the company’s pipeline is strong and extending to the independent channel.

The nation’s largest independent broker-dealer aims to boost expansion even more, and it’s not ruling out launching its own bank.

In a session at the industry trade group’s conference, planner Lazetta Rainey Braxton connected racial and financial literacy.

To meet the needs of the swelling ranks of women investors, Wall Street needs to grow our own female advisors, writes Judy Morrill.

The company is making a bid to compete for growing ranks of America’s multi-millionaires and billionaires.

A roundup of this week's news includes advisors on the move, new hires

A new high in loan volume and a notable influx of advisory AUM drove the wirehouse’s business to more than half a billion dollars in second-quarter net income.