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NewEdge has a 1099, W-2 and RIA channel and wants to take down wirehouses -- so it hired a 17-year Morgan Stanley executive who just spent seven years at the Mark Zuckerberg RIA
Dec 10, 2025The $80-billion all-channel RIA is showing it technology seriousness by making a wirehouse operations exec its CEO.
Jim Dickson's RIA venture launched with a bang, but high flying co-founder Mark Penske and industry icon Eric Clarke exit board after Emigrant Partners steps in as minority investor
Oct 28, 2025In exclusive interview Emigrant Partners Chair Liz Nesvold stays bullish on the firm, but questions remain about its board, its owners, who's running the company and a hastily rewritten ADV2.
'Displaced' John Thiel uses RIA and Fidelity-Advyzon back office to get back into game -- a road well traveled by multiple, ex-Merrill Lynch chiefs seeking second acts
Nov 14, 2024Forget SPACs and board seats, the former head of Merrill Lynch Wealth Management follows the likes of Bob McCann and Sallie Krawcheck into easy-access RIA industry.
Infamous stockbroker resolves civil suit stemming from violent tirade -- the apparent final chapter in an incident that went viral and forever branded him the 'Fairfield Smoothie Guy'
Sep 1, 2022Broker Jim Iannazzo went all out with high-powered attorneys and slick Las Vegas crisis pr team to limit the damage from his actions, but whether he can ever live down the incident remains to be seen.
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
Jul 16, 2022Still 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.
A 20-year Merrill Lynch veteran got Sanctuary Wealth to $10 billion in AUA in 15 months with no outside capital and no time in bed: 'Nobody's slept since April'
Aug 15, 2019Jim Dickson also recruited HighTower talent, Amit Dogra, to bring the old HighTower brokerage model and execute it as HighTower veers toward buying RIAs