Wirehouses

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.

Two advisors have left J.P. Morgan Private Bank to join Barclays' wealth management division in Palm Beach, Fla.

Raymond James & Associates lured away one advisor who generated $2 million in production.

The wirehouse is set to increase deferred comp for its advisors in 2015.

Janet Robinson is the first woman to join the 8-member board of the independent firm founded by wirehouse managers and affiliated with Raymond James Financial Services.

Worries about a tidal wave of retiring advisors may be overblown, say some wealth management executives.

The St. Louis-based firm said that Reed, Gates, Strait Wealth Management Group has joined the company with an office in Lexington, Ky.

RBC enticed away a Merrill Lynch team managing $103 million in assets.

Frank Campanale, CEO of Lebenthal Wealth Advisors and a former executive at Smith Barney, spells out the key elements in firm's growth plans and recruiting strategy: brand, equity stakes and passion.

Washington Wealth Management lured away an advisor managing $100 million in assets and who had been at the wirehouse for three decades.

RBC Wealth Management lured away a wirehouse advisor managing $116 million in assets from Wells Fargo Advisors.