Wirehouse advisors

Also this week, LPL pulls a big team from Raymond James, Merrill from Morgan Stanley and Dynasty from CIBC.

In an industry with too few advisors, many say the failure rate for newcomers remains disconcertingly high. But brokers on Financial Planning's top 40 under 40 list say they wouldn't be where they are without early career training.

Financial Planning announces its 2025 class of the top 40 most productive employee wealth management brokers under age 40.

The RIA aggregators Prime Capital and Corient also made their marks with big acquisitions.

Citi's head of wealth said the firm is already working with a quarter of the billionaires in the world through its private bank. Now it just needs them to entrust it with managing more of their money.

The tide is beginning to shift toward the wirehouse in its contentions that deferred pay is not protected by federal retirement law.

Mercer Global Advisors and EP Wealth also extend their reach into the Nashville, Tennessee area with RIA acquisitions.

Former UBS employee Cody Rice acknowledges that his politics and personal traits made him an outlier in the ESG world. But that, he says in a lawsuit, was no excuse for the treatment he received.

The Zurich-based bank is in the midst of overhauling its U.S. wealth business with a greater priority on mass affluent clients and lower costs.

JPMorgan also builds out the ranks of its private advisory group with execs poached from Goldman Sachs, Wells Fargo and Ernst & Young.

The big payday comes after a year in which the bank made progress toward the removal of a federally imposed asset cap.

Rodney Halvorson says he agreed to join Morgan Stanley only if he could take two wealthy Mexican clients with him. But his transfers were blocked amid heightened money-laundering scrutiny.

The team of three advisors have started a firm called T6 Wealth Management, which will operate out of Morgan Stanley's new offices in Midtown Manhattan.

Citi also announced it had hired Christian Zeinler from UBS to be the head of strategy for Citi Wealth and head of business execution for the private bank.

Citizens meanwhile extends its presence in Florida with a $750 million team from RBC and Envestnet hires a new CEO.

Raymond James also recruited from Charles Schwab, and LPL from Raymond James and Merrill

Regulators took the wirehouses to task for not having policies directing advisors to consider clients' best interests.

Executives say the Bank of America subsidiary likely benefited from clients in 2023 seeking a safe harbor from teetering regional banks.

The number of financial advisors at America's biggest bank dropped slightly from last quarter but was still up from last year.

The mega bank says more than half of its roughly 300,000 are already back in the office every day of the work week.