Recruiting & transitions: archive
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Cetera's fifth channel puts every independence option under one roof
Jen Hanau will lead the fifth channel, covering everything from W-2 employment to full RIA ownership. Cetera hasn't published the economics.
Cetera unites Avantax, TRPG under one $19B RIA
Cetera folds Avantax Planning Partners and The Retirement Planning Group into one RIA, promising advisors they won't have to choose between today and the future.
NASAA cuts retest wait to 60 days after a third failure
Failed candidates can retake the exam four months sooner.
The Foreman Rial Group's wirehouse jump is a pricing lesson
The Foreman Rial Group's move to Morgan Stanley shows what a lift-out check must cover — and the risk the advisors take on.
A $14 million Merrill team jumps to Rockefeller in Ohio
The hire extends Rockefeller's run of wirehouse recruits and puts a 43-year Merrill veteran on a family-office platform.
A 35-day round trip shows the risk in a wirehouse transition
David Powell left Morgan Stanley for RBC and was back in a month. The episode is a lesson in what a shared book means for a transition package.
LPL's road to 90% retention runs through smaller Commonwealth books
The commitment rate sits in the low 80s and is lopsided: larger, faster-growing Commonwealth teams have signed, so the 90% target depends on smaller practices.
IBD Elite 2026 ranks 37 brokerages; clearing costs stay hidden
The annual revenue ranking gives advisors a rare public measure of brokerage scale; a companion feature explains why clearing and custody costs stay hidden.
Most advisors never see the true cost of clearing and custody
Financial Planning's 41st annual IBD Elite study finds the price of clearing and custody buried under so many layers that few advisors ever see it.