Wirehouses

Planners who are agile enough can easily decide on what's best for them: switching to wirehouses, other large brokerages or going independent. Also, moving quickly may help them land the best deals, says a recruiting consultant.

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.

Arbitrators for the regulator also awarded an expungement to Dale Cebert, who claimed a campaign to damage his reputation followed his termination from the wirehouse.

David Kowach oversaw approximately 11,000 advisers as head of the Private Client Group.

Revenue continues to fall for the industry's largest brokerages, but lending remains strong.

A Triad executive says the firm aims to work with more advisers who want to go independent but who need help dealing with increasing regulatory burdens.

Entering his fourth year in the business, Evan Savarick explains why joining his father’s team was the right move.

WealthSource Partners joins regional broker-deal’s Investment Advisors Division.

A former Morgan Stanley adviser and medalist in swimming offers tips for keeping long-term objectives on course.

The recruit switched wirehouses again after 7 years.

Four elite advisers who left the independent channel to launch their own RIA deliver blow to Wells Fargo's target of a best-ever recruiting year.