Regional BDs

Nearly two dozen mega teams switched employers, but few went to a wirehouse.

The UBS advisor switched firms before his old employer officially exited the Broker Protocol.

Team of 9 advisors is latest to depart amid transition to LPL.

The beleaguered wirehouse has suffered from advisor attrition this year.

The firm also opened a new branch office in Flint, Michigan.

An industry veteran is among the crowd of talent departing firms that have exited the Broker Protocol.

Some of the new recruits joined from Morgan Stanley just prior to the firm's Broker Protocol exit.

Both advisors are attracted by Ameriprise’s technology and investment options.

Regional firms have been on a recruiting spree this year.

The wirehouse's advisor headcount, at 14,564 at the end of the third quarter, was down 3% year-over-year.

Brokers' top questions and concerns about the protocol's demise answered.

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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