Wirehouses

Merrill Lynch compensation remains mostly the same next year, with some tweaks to smaller accounts.

Mega teams spend months, sometimes years, in the effort to find a new home and transition their oversized books.

The wirehouse brought over five advisors from UBS and Citi Personal Wealth Management.

The team, known as Madison Street Financial Group, generated $3.5 million in annual revenue.

HighTower recruited a Merrill Lynch advisor to join a group that broke away from the wirehouse earlier this year.

Wells Fargo Advisors recruited a veteran advisor generating more than $1 million in annual revenue.

Celebrities are the types of clients many advisors only dream of working with. At one firm, these clients -- and the advisors who serve them -- are getting increased attention.

Legal experts explain what made an advisor's arbitration victory against Morgan Stanley an unusual victory.

A FINRA arbitration panel found Morgan Stanley liable for "causing humiliation" when terminating an advisor's employment at the wirehouse.

The industry regulator closes the comment period for its controversial data-reporting initiative as brokerage trade groups warn of privacy concerns and compliance costs.

Merrill Lynch lost a group of advisors managing $535 million in assets to Raymond James & Associates.

"Ultimately, the challenge is how to most effectively translate clients' qualitative thoughts and feelings into quantitative approaches," says Merrill's Michael Liersch.

UBS sought damages for breach of employment contract; an ex-UBS advisor countered that he brought in $20 million in net new assets.

A Merrill Lynch advisor has left the wirehouse to join UBS Private Wealth Management.

Advisors from Morgan Stanley, with combined assets of more than $387 million, made the move to Merrill Lynch.

Advisors from Merrill Lynch and Wells Fargo were elected to IMCA's board of directors.

Stifel Financial hired a new branch manager who previously worked for Merrill Lynch.

A Morgan Stanley branch manager left the wirehouse to join Raymond James & Associates and help with the firm's expansion plans.

A FINRA arbitration panel ordered an ex-Merrill Lynch advisor to pay his former employer more than $400,000 in damages.

The wirehouse said it scooped up two advisors from rivals Raymond James and J.P. Morgan.