Wirehouse advisors

Six of the top 10 advisor recruits — managing roughly $13.2 billion in client assets — have walked out of the wirehouse so far this year.

These mega brokers managed $18 billion in assets at their previous firms.

Wirehouse policy changes are bearing fruit and leaving advisor career options in flux.

To convince advisors to try its platform, Capitect took a number of steps, including partnering with XY Planning Network to provide its tools to members without cost.

Here’s what the two seemingly contradictory trends mean for advisors.

The recruits oversaw more than $200 million in client assets.

Jim Senderling and John Robbie had been with Merrill Lynch for 27 and 25 years, respectively.

The firm’s FA ranks at 14,820 were down by only nine brokers from the previous quarter.

Total broker head count dropped by 173 from the prior quarter, according to the wirehouse.

Bruce Keebeck Lee has repeatedly been ranked as a top advisor by both Barron’s and The Financial Times, but he was fired in April for a failure to file compliance paperwork.