Regional banks

Total assets for the regional B-D's Individual Investor Group will reach about $40 billion after it merges with Smith Hayes.

The brokerage landed 7 recruits from Edward Jones, Ameriprise and Morgan Stanley, as well as from other wealth management firms.

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The advisor had been a member of Morgan Stanley's Chairman's Club.

The recruit will serve as a branch director for six offices.

See how the starting points for payouts compare at wirehouse and regional broker-dealers.

A mega team of three long-time industry veterans departed Merrill Lynch for Raymond James & Associates.

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The small producer is being squeezed out by the industry's focus on bigger profits and larger accounts.

An NYPD auxiliary police officer also works in wealth management.

Raymond James, Stifel, Baird and a dozen other "Main Street" firms are behind the newly created American Securities Association.

A former professional football player and his brother made the move between the two regional B-Ds.

The firm's bottom line was battered by higher expenses and weak revenue growth due in part to recent market volatility.

These advisers from our BIC Top 50 have either logged the most years in the industry (because seniority counts), or the fewest (so does cracking the top ranks at a young age.)

A fresh look at the best pay for advisors at the wirehouses and leading regional broker-dealers.

The manager, who left Raymond James after only two years, also had logged in more than two decades at Morgan Stanley and Merrill Lynch.

Janney Montgomery Scott hired six advisors, moving the firm closer to its goal of 50 new recruits this year.

Two recruits from Raymond James and Merrill Lynch made the move.

The firm hired more than a dozen recruits, mostly from wirehouses.

The wirehouse lost a veteran advisor who generated $1.5 million in annual revenue.