Regional BDs

The move occurred just days before UBS said it would exit the Broker Protocol.

A massive acquisition, the possible end of the Broker Protocol and other issues will shape the industry in 2018.

The regional firm pulled its latest hires from Wells Fargo and Merrill Lynch.

Morgan Stanley alone lost 11 teams managing about $7 billion after its abrupt exit from the protocol pact, according to recent hiring announcements.

"Real diversity and inclusion is when we achieve gender parity and adequate representation of ethnic backgrounds," says Monica Giuseffi, principal of financial advisor inclusion and diversity at the firm.

The firm has cast a wide recruitment net, luring practices large and small.

The firm previously accused its former employee of using company stationery to continue to pass herself off as an Ameriprise advisor.

The group is the second team to join the Tucson branch in two weeks.

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The duo is part of an ongoing exodus of wirehouse advisors to smaller regional firms and independent brokerages