Wirehouses

The firm's headcount has steadily declined since the bogus account scandal came to light last year.

"With 15,000 financial advisors, it's hard to change financial planning software. It's hard to change the day-to-day stuff," adviser Jim Denholm III says.

Naureen Hassan says tools in development will make advisers "faster and smarter" in serving clients.

The deciding factor might be ruthlessness.

The four advisers had spent their entire careers at Merrill before making the switch.

Concerns about management dragged down job satisfaction ratings in J.D. Power’s annual survey.

His move is also something of a reunion, as Steward Partners CEO Jim Gold once served as his manager at Smith Barney.

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The regional brokerage firm recruited its second wirehouse group this week.

The team includes identical twin brothers and an industry veteran of nearly 30 years.

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Demographics and competitive forces are destined to weaken the determination to avoid expensive recruiting packages.

The regional firm continues to snatch multi-million dollar teams from the wirehouses.

The group says it wanted to offer clients greater transparency.

The wirehouse pullback on recruiting is seen as an opportunity for regional firms, a recruiter says.

The regional firm has been trying to recruit more advisers, particularly those from wirehouses.

They left to have more freedom in how they work with their clients, one of the new hires says.

The wirehouse said recently it plans to stop recruiting experienced advisers, but made an exception if talks with recruits started before June 1.

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The new hires joined Merrill from Morgan Stanley.