Keys? √ Wallet? √ Phone? √ Other Phone? √   That’ll be the new routine for more than 14,000 Merrill Lynch brokers later this year as AdvisorHub is reporting that the legacy BD has decided to issue each of them

UBS leadership may be extolling the virtues of a smaller broker force and potentially higher profits, but we’d wager this wasn’t necessarily part of the Powerpoint presentation. In fact, there may be a head or two that could roll in

The headline might seem obvious, but the day to day walking out of Merrill Lynch as an ancillary division of Bank of America gets uglier every week. This past week it was the revelation that Merrill Edge advisors will no

In a move that should send chills down the spine of every JP Morgan Securities advisor, bank brass has decided to fold the traditional wealth management arm into the banks ‘private banking’ arm. We’ve seen this particular movie before, and

Stifel has been the clubhouse leader in the wealth management recruiting space for better than two years. And they aren’t using massive upfront payments and an outsized recruiting deal to do so. Advisors say that culture matters and the Stifel

In a serious legal claim that  raised eyebrows everywhere, a long-tenured UBS advisor has accused the firm of skimming commission-based fees from retirement accounts that he manages. In fact, he believes that those funds have not only been skimmed but