Recruiting

Advisor Kristin Bartlow brings a team of four managing $195 million in client assets to Journey Strategic Wealth.

The quartet of advisors picked the nation’s largest IBD out of the increasing number of suitors available to ex-employee practices.

Wells Fargo, Baird, Avantax, Kestra, Janney Montgomery Scott, IRAs, Derek Jeter and other news this week in financial advice.

The company has experienced “dramatic increases” in new customers, call and trading volumes.

What's going on at LPL, Captrust, Avantax, Pershing, Citigroup, Edelman Financial Engines, and other quick takes from around the industry.

The recruit oversaw more than $650 million in client assets while at his former employer.

The long-simmering dispute spotlights the sometimes fraught nature of advisor career moves.

The recruits come from Merrill Lynch, Wells Fargo and Morgan Stanley.

JPMorgan Chase said it plans to hire 300 additional Black and Latino wealth advisors by 2025 to serve more clients from those communities and allow employees from diverse backgrounds to advance in their careers.

Rockefeller Capital Management’s latest recruiting spate has netted it three wirehouse teams in Texas, Cincinnati and Los Angeles — one of which caters to Native American tribes.

Ancora, which previously took on Bed Bath & Beyond and Big Lots, argues the company suffers from poor leadership.

With a new brand and new leadership, the firm hopes to tap into a burgeoning wealth management sector.

The IBD network added a community bank’s investment program after exceeding the goals it set at the beginning of 2020, its head recruiter says.

Questions about job losses and real estate are adding more complexity to the usual post-deal issues involving advisor retention and company consolidation.

The firm hopes to more readily attract talent from rivals.

The quartet of financial advisors range in age from their 20s to their 90s, and are the second group to sign with Dynasty this week.

The group includes an advisor who oversaw $843 million.

Firms are on the hunt for new talent, and they are upping their offerings to find and keep it.

With planners aging and the industry’s demographics still far out of step with the country’s, wealth managers are bulking up their support for new entrants.

Part of a push by the company to open offices in underserved areas, Anthony Williams aims to make it “a pillar” of the community, he says.