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Howard Edelstein: Sometimes, the CEO needs a little help.

BondDesk Group chairman takes on CEO role and shifts focus to wealth management and capital markets

The reshuffle, which brings aboard an ex-MSSB vice chairman, is no prelude to a sale new chief Howard Edelstein insists

November 1, 2012 at 6:00 PM

Mag Black-Scott: We want to be in major cities where there is a good opportunity. That will take us to the East Coast eventually.
February 15, 2012 at 6:38 AM

Jim Pupillo: I looked at several vendor platforms to support us if we went completely independent.

HighTower stages its first raid of Morgan Stanley Smith Barney's elite consulting unit

A famous loyalist, Jim Pupillo crusaded for years to bring about change internally at Smith Barney before finally defecting

January 24, 2012 at 5:52 AM

HighTower plucked Ann Reider from an MSSB  branch in close proximity to HighTower's Chicago headquarters

Casting a wider net for talent, HighTower poaches an MSSB branch manager

After three years of relentlessly recruiting brokers from Wall Street firms, the strategic buyer will go to wirehouses to top off its managerial talent

October 21, 2011 at 2:08 PM

Lori Van Dusen has been thinking about starting an RIA for 20 years but the 'pieces' couldn't be assembled to her liking, until now.

Dynasty Financial wins the account of Lori Van Dusen's new RIA through Focus Financial

The arrangement holds the possibility of a symbiotic advisor-vendor relationship between the wealth management platform and the big aggregator

October 18, 2011 at 2:15 PM

Dave Loeper: If advisors are using our process, they need to make sure they have the appropriate rights to it.

David Loeper is taking on UBS but his patent lawsuit is raising alarms in the RIA business

A pitched battle over the uniqueness of a financial planning process could result in thousands of advisors paying royalties

August 11, 2011 at 3:02 PM

Elmer Rich: Using scripted content to advertise your firm- as Morgan Stanley recently did - is a common mistake among financial services firms and advisors.

Social media is effective with ultra-wealthy clients but forget the Morgan Stanley approach

Social media checklist needed to effectively reach out to wealthy clients

July 5, 2011 at 2:28 PM

Elliot Weissbluth: I can tell [advisors] life is better for you outside of the wirehouse and I didn’t know this fact three years ago.

HighTower dangles array of hedge funds to lure breakaways

Wirehouses have nothing on independents when it comes to access to hedge funds, firm says citing three-year study

June 23, 2011 at 2:39 PM

Robert Schein: Ten advisors called me. They said: 'You guys moved.' What more is there to the story?

HighTower is starting to run the poaching table in Palm Desert

The Chicago firm's phone is ringing after it wins a top Morgan Stanley team on the heels of nabbing Merrill breakaways

June 2, 2011 at 1:54 PM

Tony Sirianni: “The big firms don’t see the value in (branch managers), which is crazy because that’s how they built themselves.”

Former MSSB exec powers up Washington Wealth Management as branch-manager franchise

RIA structured as an independent branch network rises in Virginia's horse country on Fidelity platform

April 11, 2011 at 2:42 PM

Ed Orazem was one of a fistful of former Citi executives that Alan Harter got back in his camp.

How Harter broke away from Morgan Stanley Smith Barney to find new vendors -- and found old friends

Citi wealth management alumni are deeply entrenched at Fidelity and Dynasty Financial Partners and working on better mousetraps

February 9, 2011 at 3:14 PM

Alan Harter: Nobody looks at me like I have three heads.

Why an elite Morgan Stanley Smith Barney advisor jumped ship and plans 10 offices around the globe

Breakaway is using high-profile startup Dynasty to access key vendors

February 8, 2011 at 3:23 PM

Frank Braddock: I said we needed a robust trading platform and the best research. Look, losing the smarts of MSSB would hurt.

A Morgan Stanley Smith Barney breakaway stepped off the wirehouse carousel to keep in touch with his clients

A former radio star, Frank Braddock prides himself on being able to get to know people within the intimate orbit of money

December 15, 2010 at 2:53 PM

Barnaby Levin: When Morgan Stanley bought Smith Barney, their priority was to integrate platforms.

Inside the mind of one recent Morgan Stanley Smith Barney breakaway who landed at HighTower

Barnaby Levin chafed at how the wirehouse restricted the way he could serve a client list made up of top execs at start-ups

December 6, 2010 at 5:58 AM

The CFP Board of Standards is co-sponsoring a conference to bring top academics, industry thinkers in front of regulators. Kevin Keller, CEO, says advocacy groups can't afford to take a break now.

How a surprising array of advisor groups aims to catch the SEC's ear

A conference of experts from academia, industry will examine how the fiduciary standard could work in a brokerage business

September 13, 2010 at 4:42 AM

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