Wirehouses

The advisors join the regional BD’s offices in Chicago and Nashville, Tennessee.

“We’ve been very focused on opening every drawer and turning over every rock in the company,” CEO Tim Sloan said.

The firm, which has faced racial discrimination allegations, is trying an alternative approach suggested by a professor at Harvard.

Regional brokerages and firms that assist breakaway advisors have been picking off top talent at the wirehouses.

The regional broker-dealer added four new advisors to the 32 recruits picked up this year alone.

The regional firm has been a recruiting tear, picking up a number of ex-wirehouse teams.

In the last month, RBC has hired six teams from wirehouses and other regional firms.

One advisor says the fiduciary rule prompted the latest wirehouse exit to an RIA.

Three quarters of the firm’s 57 new recruits have come from the largest firms.

The regional broker-dealer adds another team to its roster while wirehouses continue to scale back on recruiting.

With these latest additions, the regional firm furthers its Southeast expansion.

The new hires are the latest recruits to join the regional firm.

Smaller brokerages are benefiting in big ways from cutbacks at three of the four largest firms.

Phil Shaffer says changes in the business necessitated a career change if he was to maintain an edge in serving clients.

The broker claims in filings that he was harassed by the bank, culminating in his firing in February of last year.

Two of the groups joined the regional firm from Morgan Stanley.

Dan Rothenberg of UBS says it's given his team an "easier hurdle to be beat rather than a benchmark."

"You know the industry that we're in, it's very much word-of-mouth," says Morgan Stanley's Fulvio Urbinati.

The Northeast prevails, but there's a surprise in the rankings revealed by this interactive infographic.

Merrill Lynch's Dane Runia says he avoids outsourcing too much.