Wirehouses

The new recruits come from Morgan Stanley and UBS.

The fast-growing, private wealth management firm has partnered with a new team, TC Wealth Management.

What does it take to make the list? The industry's biggest young producers talk about their paths to success.

Morgan Stanley fired an employee it said stole data, including account numbers, for as many as 350,000 wealth management clients and posted some of the information online.

Cerulli predicts that market share gains in the RIA and dually registered channels will likely come at the expense of wirehouses and independent broker-dealers.

The firm recruits a team with advisors from Wells Fargo and JP Morgan.

The Bogart Group was previously with RBC Wealth Management-U.S., managing client assets of more than $600 million.

Winthrop H. Smith Jr., son of Merrill Lynch pioneer Win Smith, gives his take on "Mother Merrill," and how the firm's old culture impacts the present.

Merrill's newest recruit managed more than $185 million in client assets while at UBS.

Margaret Towle was most recently a partner and managing director with HighTower Advisors. She's also editor-in-chief of The Journal of Investment Consulting.

An attorney for Jorge Posada and Jose Contreras says ballplayers were "victims of fraud, taken advantage of at every turn."

Regulators penalized both the independent and employee channels of Wells Fargo for failing to properly screen over 200,000 customer accounts.

Raymond James' independent broker dealer lured away two advisors producing $1.85 million from Morgan Stanley.

Wells Fargo Advisors is increasing several advisor bonus awards, while its core payout grid will remain unchanged next year.

An advisor joined BB&T Scott & Stringfellow to become the firm's latest wirehouse recruit.

With nearly 16,000 firms managing $2.4 trillion in assets, Cerulli predicts the RIA industry will capture 28% of retail investor assets by 2018.

The wirehouse named former football pro and advisor William Thomas to head the firm's San Francisco complex.

UBS advisors with growing practices may earn more money in 2015.

An advisor managing $181 million in assets left Morgan Stanley for the Swiss firm.

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