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Naureen Hassan is back on the 'digital' Wall Street brokerage track after a year as a bank executive.

UBS bets its 'wealth' future on ex-Schwabbie Naureen Hassan, a corporate digital A-lister, who analysts give a fighting chance to transcend PaineWebber's ossified culture

Still a $2-billion cash-flow cow, the Swiss bank's 6,000-broker, US-based wirehouse is milking aging broker relationships with aging investors but needs a new kind of human presence, empathy, mindset and smarts to draw in Gen Z.

July 16, 2022 at 1:35 AM

Ryan Parker: I want to say in the clearest way possible that there's nothing driving me away from LPL

Edelman Financial gets its CEO from LPL but the chief executive's job description isn't exactly what the old one was

The $16-billion-AUM RIA's poach of Ryan Parker gives Ric Edelman the bandwidth to exert more of his people power

May 31, 2016 at 8:47 PM

Tom Gooley: You need to continue to evolve system and service platforms to make sure you're keeping up.

LPL taps the man who saved Morgan Stanley's bacon to take service to a Schwab RIA-level echelon

Tom Gooley sacrificed 36 weekends and a happy home life in Larchmont to smooth the way for 15,000 stockbrokers in the biggest wirehouse merger ever

June 29, 2015 at 6:33 PM

Schwab is hoping Terri Kallsen's stint at USAA will equip her lead the crusade to capture high-end investors.

Schwab promotes relative newcomer Terri Kallsen to head retail, with John Clendening getting the golden parachute and Andy Gill transitioned

The hire from USAA is a nod to that firm's success inspiring loyalty but Kallsen will need to break the streak of short-lived tenures in that position

January 16, 2015 at 5:28 PM

Kevin Corbett: For me, it was picking my favorite client and spending more time with them.

In two-part deal, Fidelity sacrifices a top talent to its top RIA client then fills the gap with an impressive hire from Schwab

Mariner's Marty Bicknell nabs Kevin Corbett and Fidelity's Bob Oros in turn snaps up Catherine Davies

July 16, 2014 at 6:22 PM

Bill Chetney: I went to Mark Casady and Robert Moore and said: This is my natural habitat. I'd like to lead but from this format.

Bill Chetney is back to compete with LPL (among others) and Mark Casady is very much on board

His new $40-billion OSJ start-up will use the LPL hybrid platform and get a hand from the broker-dealer in procuring a right-to-recruit agreement and software

July 9, 2014 at 3:21 AM

Racquel Oden is tasked with RIA-ifying the training program and infusing new blood into the starchy Merrill advisor force.

Is Merrill Lynch taking its more RIA-like training program another step forward with Racquel Oden's promotion?

The new head of training breaks stereotypes and may break new ground for the industry -- or not

March 10, 2014 at 1:31 AM

Rajeev Sharan: I function as a market ‘shock absorber’ for clients.

Two 'super RIAs' -- Aspiriant and Salient -- hire risk officers in a sign of what clients value post-2008-'09, post-Madoff

In the post-Madoff era, explicit downside is becoming more important -- and lets Aspiriant justify its $7,500 planning fee better

November 24, 2013 at 8:45 PM

Greg Mech: Increasingly, there's an overemphasis on cross-selling and a lack of transparency in [the wirehouse] space.

How a $2.5 billion Boise RIA will use Merrill Lynch's former SoCal overseer to win the over-sunned of The OC

The former Bank of America market president stepped back into the industry after a two-year hiatus following an epiphany and will be recruiting families, not his former flock of brokers

September 9, 2013 at 5:10 PM

Cecile Munoz: Trying to be like a man diminishes our natural advantages.

Top RIA business executive recruiter chides 180 women gathered in a New York ballroom for second-guessing themselves

The make-no-excuses female headhunter, Cecile Munoz, says men claim the power after women 'self-select out'

June 20, 2013 at 4:10 AM

Victor Fetter will be the face of LPL's technological skunkworks in North Carolina

LPL poaches top Dell exec to rewire outsourcing and head hundreds in new technology 'town'

Victor Fetter is reporting directly to Mark Casady and will help hire 60 techies in the next 45 days

December 14, 2012 at 5:57 AM

Dwight Mathis: By the time they graduate after 43 months it'll put clear blue sky between us and our competition.

Merrill Lynch makes bold moves to train new recruits for an RIA-centric future

The rethought training program suits up new advisors -- many of them career changers -- for independence as well as for the wirehouse path

November 21, 2012 at 4:35 PM

Rob Francais: I knew they were cut from the same cloth.

Why Deloite Touche talent is such a coveted building block at some esteemed RIAs

The changing challenge of serving the ultra-affluent is demanding skills that look more like Big Four accounting than the four wirehouses

August 16, 2012 at 6:35 AM

Kent Smetters: One of the pain points of a TAMP is that it takes so long to put together a plan.

LPL Financial rolls up an unusual RIA to use as a cornerstone of its TAMP-like mass-market venture

The big broker-dealer is buying Veritat Advisors, renaming it NestWise, and using a Wharton professor's technology to crack the case of managing multi-hundred-client practices

July 10, 2012 at 2:32 PM

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

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