While private equity investors have an unquenchable thirst for wealth management, the public markets haven't always been kind to wealth management companies.
Last year was an unusually productive one for Morgan Stanley and its close to 16,000 financial advisers, who brought in record net new assets for the year.
Merrill Lynch, an industry bellwether, reports a host of new highs in 2021, ranging from revenue to assets and net new ultra-high-net-worth clients.
The three advisers, who will operate as The HarborView Group in St. Petersburg, previously were affiliated with Morgan Stanley.
While the company hasn't staunched the bleeding of its financial advisers completely, the three months ending in December saw the rate of decline slow a bit, while the average revenue per adviser continued to increase.
The former UBS chief was named co-chair of recently rebranded NewEdge Capital Group.
Despite last year’s riot at the Capitol and a variety of lethal Covid-19 variants, the broad stock market roared, which is always good news for financial advisers and their firms.
Morgan Stanley allegedly learned of the breach when it was contacted by a man who said he had purchased used IT equipment from an internet vendor that came with access to sensitive customer data.
Brett Moore will work in the firm’s Beverly Hills, California, office.
'I really think that our financial advisers are going to be happy about this,' one Wells Fargo executive said.
A duo from LPL and two Wells Fargo reps are affiliating with the firm’s independent unit.
Humanity Wealth Advisors sets up shop in California’s Bay Area.
Finra found that for 17 years, the firm failed to store 13 million customer records in the required format.
The bank has launched a number of new credit cards this year, including a low-interest-rate card, and plans a rewards-card line next year.
A group of advisers based in Miami are moving to the Raymond James unit.
The Clauss & Ellison Group, a three-person team from Merrill Lynch, is joining the firm’s employee adviser channel.
The former president of Morgan Stanley will stand for election to succeed Axel Weber at the Swiss bank's annual meeting in April.
The firm is announcing an initiative, the Equity Collective, in which wealth and asset management firms commit to working with career-focused community organizations to reach young people from more diverse backgrounds.
The prevailing trend of advisers going independent has only gathered steam, according to third-quarter Advisers on the Move data.
Two advisers from Truist and a trio from Merrill Lynch are moving to the firm's employee channel.
