Wirehouse advisors

Experts weigh in on the pros and cons of leaving the employee channel.

The new recruits come from from Merrill Lynch, Cetera and SagePoint Financial.

One of the recruits is an industry veteran with more than 30 years of experience.

One of the new recruits was previously affiliated with Raymond James as an independent adviser for about a decade.

Two are coming back to Mother Merrill, having worked there in the 1990s.

The advisory group decided that operating as an RIA was a better option.

The planner, who oversaw $132 million in client assets while at the wirehouse, is starting out on his own with help from Raymond James, the firm said.

One of the recruits began his career in the late 1980s.

The boutique firm focuses on ultrahigh-net-worth entrepreneurs worldwide.

Plus, Wells Fargo hires a $700M team from J.P. Morgan Private Bank and helps a $587M Morgan Stanley team go independent.

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A settlement with Bank of America covers 270 employees who were terminated following the wealth management firm's 2008 acquisition.

The wirehouse's three newest recruits are all industry veterans.

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Three advisers joined the firm's Advisor Select channel, where they are employees but can make additional business-decisions for their practice.

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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.