Wirehouses

The group includes two recruits who began their careers in the late 1970s.

The recruit joined a practice opened by a former complex director from the same wirehouse.

The wirehouse is also reorganizing how it deploys a number of product and service consultants and technology specialists.

The wirehouse advisers generated a combined $2 million in annual revenue at the time of their departure.

The case, filed on behalf of an on-call branch office manager who works with advisers, follows similar retirement plan-related litigation recently filed against other firms, including Morgan Stanley.

Plus, Benjamin F. Edwards and Ameriprise each add recruits with more than $600M in combined AUM, and Morgan loses a $500M group.

The advisers, one of whom is a former football coach, are among the first to join the wirehouse since UBS unveiled sweeping changes to its comp plan.

The veteran wirehouse recruit has 34 years of industry experience.

ValueAct likes Morgan Stanley’s shift to asset-light, fee-based businesses such as wealth and investment management, and said CEO James Gorman has shifted the bank to “growing fee streams that do not require much equity capital to grow.”

Paul Morris is one of a growing number of recruits that the wirehouse has rehired after they had previously left the firm.