Regional banks

A Stifel advisor team that managed almost $200 million in assets has left the firm to join Raymond James & Associates.

An advisor team managing more than $170 million in client assets has left UBS to join Stifel, Nicolaus.

Sterne Agee Group's former chief executive officer faces a U.S. probe into whether he misused company assets such as airplanes, boats, hunting clubs and condominiums, a person with knowledge of the matter said.

Two former RBC advisors managing about $230 million in combined assets jumped to Baird.

A trio of former Raymond James advisors has moved to Stifel, Nicolaus, the traditional employee broker-dealer of Stifel Financial.

A UBS advisor team managing $430 million in assets has left the wirehouse to join regional broker-dealer First Kentucky Securities.

A former UBS Advisor with more than $130 million in assets and $1.2 million in annual production made a move to RBC Wealth Management-U.S.

UBS, Switzerland's biggest bank, leapfrogged Morgan Stanley and Bank of America to become the world's largest wealth manager by client assets, according to a ranking compiled by PAM Insight SA.

RBC Wealth Management-U.S. has recruited a former Morgan Stanley executive director to help with the firm's growth plans.

U.S. Capital Advisors, a small regional firm in Texas, has recruited five former UBS and J.P. Morgan advisors who managed more than $500 million in combined client assets.

Regional wealth manager D.A. Davidson is launching a new training program aimed at bringing recent college graduates into the financial advisor profession.

A former J.P Morgan advisor team that managed $1.5 billion in client assets has left the firm to join Wells Fargo Advisors.

Two former UBS advisors are moving over to Stifel.

On Wall Street unveils the top ten branch managers of the year.

Across the industry, branch management faces increasing demands and fewer resources to mentor and recruit advsiors. Firms like Wells Fargo, Raymond James and Merrill Lynch are taking steps to provide relief.

Raymond James & Associates lured away an advisor team from Wells Fargo Advisors that generated annual revenue of about $2 million.

Benjamin F. Edwards snapped up four advisors from Wells Fargo and opened a new office in Pensacola, Fla.

Two Merrill Lynch veterans who generated about $1.6 million have left the wirehouse for Raymond James & Associates.

Raymond James has recruited a veteran advisor from Morgan Stanley where he managed more than $360 million.

Stifel, Nicolaus & Company picked up two wirehouse teams that managed more than $1 billion in combined AUM, boosting the St. Louis-based firm's presence in the Carolinas to 18 offices from 15.