Wirehouses

HighTower has added a Merrill Lynch team with nearly $300 million in assets to its new network aimed at breakaway independents.

A former Merrill Lynch advisor team has left the wirehouse to form Quadrant Private Wealth, a new partner firm of Focus Financial Partners, according to a spokesperson.

The world’s biggest bond dealers, including JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Morgan Stanley, failed to properly report trades to the industry’s price-tracking system more than 11,000 times. JPMorgan’s penalty: About three minutes of its annual profit.

Bank of America Corp. is dismantling an electronic market-making unit created last year to serve the lender’s Merrill Lynch wealth-management division, said two people with knowledge of the decision.

Raymond James & Associates lured away an advisor team from Wells Fargo Advisors that generated annual revenue of about $2 million.

FINRA CEO Richard Ketchum praised one SEC commissioner for floating a new proposal to beef up examinations of the RIA industry independently of Congress.

The firm lures three separate teams who manage a total of more than $500 million in client assets.

UBS grabbed a former Merrill Lynch advisor who managed $500 million in client assets.

The contentious issue of harmonizing fiduciary responsibilities remains high on the agency's to-do list, though a timeframe for when a proposal might materialize is far from certain.

Benjamin F. Edwards snapped up four advisors from Wells Fargo and opened a new office in Pensacola, Fla.

Two Merrill Lynch veterans who generated about $1.6 million have left the wirehouse for Raymond James & Associates.

UBS is shaking up its wealth management executive ranks, bringing in Paul Hatch as group managing director, in a move that the brass says will better serve advisors and clients.

Morgan Stanley has lost two advisor teams that managed more than $400 million in assets.

Emboldened by a newfound sense of what their investment programs offer, more banks are turning to wirehouses for recruits.

Morgan Stanley is reshaping its executive ranks, appointing new heads for its private wealth management business and capital markets.

Hoping to catch the baby boomer retirement wave, Merrill Lynch unveils a new approach to financial planning.

Raymond James has recruited a veteran advisor from Morgan Stanley where he managed more than $360 million.

Stifel, Nicolaus & Company picked up two wirehouse teams that managed more than $1 billion in combined AUM, boosting the St. Louis-based firm's presence in the Carolinas to 18 offices from 15.

A former Morgan Stanley advisor team that managed $600 million in assets has left the wirehouse to join forces with HighTower.

Former wirehouse complex manager Tony Sirianni launches Sirianni Strategy Group, a consulting and marketing firm, to help independent firms attract wirehouse advisors.