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James Gorman: This is a historic day for Morgan Stanley.

What 'historic' deal James Gorman really closed by paying Citigroup to release its tentacles from Smith Barney?

The implicit mission of Morgan Stanley in hiring the ex-Merrill Lynch brokerage chief was to switch market positions with Merrill -- and perhaps thats just happened?

June 24, 2013 at 6:02 PM

Patrick Burns: Is there really that much of difference between their branch manager's encouraging them to join a new firm versus a recruiter at a Protocol member firm's doing the same?

Why MSSB's legal hardball in Idaho could bring overdue change to the Broker Protocol

As the Broker Protocol nears its 10th birthday, the author argues that branch managers who jump ship and then recruit others deserve legal cover

June 12, 2013 at 5:05 AM

Michael Hull: There's no question we were going to be together.

Brothers reunite as a $3.8 billion ex-Graystone team forms its own RIA

Morgan Stanley Smith Barney's elite consulting unit pushed out the older brother based on alleged wrongdoing and his younger brother spearheaded a breakaway to rejoin him

July 11, 2012 at 3:27 PM

Charles Shapiro: We're not trying to cannibalize LPL's business ... We're trying to build a great hybrid model.

Three MSSB brokers gravitate to a $4.5 billion LPL hybrid with a hefty RIA platform -- and a sub-channel appears to be nearing critical mass

Ohio-based Stratos offers cozy and profitable setup that stands between the biggest IBD and the advisors who ultimately consume its services

June 27, 2012 at 6:10 AM

Rene' Nourse: Creating the brochure, I wanted to make sure there were women and people of color represented.

Seeing her small clients take Morgan Stanley's brunt, a 12-year Smith Barney vet decamps with $100 million after meeting with Schwab

Rene' Nourse joins CONCERT to avoid telling smaller clients that MSSB benefits were being taken away and to create a brand aimed at middle class urbanites

June 22, 2012 at 5:13 AM

Steven Stahlberg: I think we have a great stage to build something.

Three RIA items of interest

BHWM hires Morgan Stanley, RW Baird vet; FallLine brings on third partner to focus on tech; preliminary injunction filed against Matthew Hutcheson

June 19, 2012 at 4:00 AM

Monique Miller knows alternative investments from her days with Caxton Associates.

Dynasty Financial hires an expert to help it build an alternative-investments inventory

Monique Miller brings her Caxton expertise and Dynasty is also poaching Austin Philbin, overseer of 100-plus MSSB advisors,

June 1, 2012 at 4:12 AM

Iconiq's San Francisco offices are little more than a receptionist's desk and a row of trading screens -- but it's more than enough to manage the assets of Facebook's billionaires.

How the Facebook IPO is creating the mother of all RIAs, Iconiq, and what an in-your-face it is for Wall Street

Breakaway out of Morgan Stanley, Divesh Makan, attracts the Mark Zuckerbergs and Sheryl Sandbergs of the world with his pedigree and presence

May 18, 2012 at 4:08 AM

E. F. Hutton may need to listen harder than ever to become the fifth wirehouse in an RIA world.

What the reincarnation of E.F. Hutton says about the pace at which RIA business is moving

It's the latest in a series of recent ventures marked by infectious enthusiasm by founders -- and few details about their business plans

April 24, 2012 at 6:18 AM

Joan Khoury: We have flexibility of delivering advice to a broader range of investors.

LPL lures top execs away from Merrill Lynch, MSSB

Such defections from the wirehouse world to the IBD arena would not have happened even 10 years ago, recruiters say

March 5, 2012 at 4:59 AM

Larry King: No one owns us...It's really the best of all worlds.

Dynasty adds Larry King, a cornerstone advisor of legacy Smith Barney's family wealth unit

At Morgan Stanley Smith Barney, the Saratoga Springs team had about $1.2 billion

February 6, 2012 at 5:33 PM

Chip Roame: They can offer a traditional payout of 40% or so and pay for personnel, rent, technolog or they can pay a higher payout.

Wirehouses will create their own independent models, Tiburon report says

WIll 2012 be the year that wirehouse 'halfway houses' catch fire?

January 19, 2012 at 6:28 AM

 Leonard Reinhart: What really intrigues me about what he's doing is he's bringing Wall Street back to Main Street.

Why exactly Dave Loeper and a Smith Barney/E.F Hutton legend are teaming up

Leonard Reinhart has ideas about how to market the Richmond, Va.-based firm's patented technology - and alleviate strain

October 26, 2011 at 4:55 AM

What if the free markets, the SEC and the Department of Labor all drive in different directions?

Advisor vs. Advisor: Two RIAs and two brokers advocate [a total of] four different ways of earning fees and caring for clients

Comment boards: Advisors argue separately for principles-based care, non-principles-based care, 12(b)-1 fees and their eradication

August 19, 2010 at 4:19 AM

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