Staff report

Ron Kruszewski led Stifel through a year that saw record revenue and strong advisor recruiting, but also a string of legal setbacks.

Chief Financial Officer Sharon Yeshaya says financial advisors have $400 billion in assets since 2020 from clients who first came to Morgan Stanley either through its workplace or E-Trade businesses.

In the first quarter, the firm's FiNet channel for advisors working as independent contractors recruited advisors with $9 billion in client assets.

Top executive Jane Fraser dismisses speculation Citi wants to buy a U.S. retail bank while touting surging revenues for the megabank's wealth unit and the firm as a whole.

Touchstone Wealth Partners is the fourth team with more than $1 billion in client assets to join Wells Fargo's FiNet unit this year.

The addition of Peter Laidlaw to Merrill's offices in San Francisco comes as firm executives aim to engage in "more aggressive recruiting."

Commonwealth was hit with the landmark penalty over its advisors' mutual-fund recommendations the year before its acquisition by LPL Financial. But it will pay only a fraction of that now.

A FINRA arbitration panel ordered Eileen Cure to pay back recruiting-loan debt and more after she was let over a "no Blacks" order she sent to her staff.

Snow Pine Private Wealth is the latest in a string of advisory groups to jump from UBS to Wells Fargo.

The lawsuit claims ShinyHunters, a prominent cybercrime group behind breaches at other wealth firms, exposed personal information after its ransom demands were refused.

RBC Wealth Management-U.S. sees a 12% surge in assets under administration — thanks largely to skyrocketing market gains.

Co-founder Shannon Eusey will step into the role of board chair as Matthew Cooper becomes the firm's second CEO.

Lisa Golia, now chief operating officer of the firm's U.S. wealth business, will be in charge of hiring, retaining and paying advisors.

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The addition of Prudential Financial and Atria Wealth Solutions helped boost LPL's advisor headcount to a record of nearly 29,000 by the end of last year.

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.

New chief executive Tony Miller has served as president of the large regional brokerage firm since 2023.

The regional giant reported $2.2 trillion in client assets last year, despite seeing its net new flows decline.

Regulators have handed down more than $3 billion in penalties over employees' alleged failures to record business-related messages sent on services like WhatsApp.