Rockefeller Capital Management acquires The Sargent Team from Morgan Stanley in New York. John Sargent and team produced a trailing $5 million, managing assets of $1.5 billion. Sargent was responsible for the launch of the highly successful “Weekend Journal” at Wall Street Journal publications. In their other acquisition, Rockefeller bought on a $3.5M team that…
Seller’s Market Begging Advisors To Name Their Price During and shortly after the financial crisis recruiting deals skyrocketed to all-time highs No longer were practice acquisitions being had in the 200’s, rather the best teams were cashing in above 300%. First Republic, Wells Fargo, and even Morgan Stanley says ‘hold my beer’. Premium deals routinely…
UBS is bracing for significant advisor losses throughout 2020. At least they better be. The aggressive comp grid changes provided the perfect cover for advisors and teams on the edge when considering a move to a new firm, to hit the bid. **There is a $14M dollar team we do not represent that is leaving…
Another sign that moves in the turbulent coronavirus era are rare, but possible… Just this month, RBC Wealth Management-U.S. hired a five-broker team that had been managing $688M in assets at Wells Fargo. The team – Gregory Fuerst, John Welsch, Michael Korb, Carl Helleberg Barbara Frenz, including two client associates, Beverly Hebenstreich and Kristan Janssen,…
Rockefeller Capital Management added a seven-person private wealth management team in New York City that produced between $11M over the past year and oversaw about $2 billion of assets at Stifel Nicolaus. The team is led by Ed Moldaver. Moldaver’s senior partner, James J. “Jimmy” Lee were among the top producers at St. Louis-based Stifel.…
Wells Fargo made a commitment 18 months ago that ‘money was no object’ when it came to rebuilding its wealth management brand. Refilling the seats that were left be advisors that bailed out in 2018/19 was its top priority. Not only did they open the corporate coffers, but they bolstered their platform, upgraded senior leadership,…
* Doug Linker, Noel Hedges, and their ten-person team in New Jersey made a huge move from Merrill Lynch (Paramus branch) to Rockefeller Capital Management. The team produced $6 million on about $750 million of client assets. All members of the team followed except for Kevin Ward, who is semi-retiring. * Rockefeller landed a husband-and-wife…
UBS brass has executed a cadre of missteps that is giving every large team in its firm ample reason to not only look elsewhere; but to protest with their feet and actually go elsewhere. Since the beginning of 2020 UBS (save one large private banking move) is a huge net loss leader across the wealth…
If it seems like larger and more frequent recruiting headlines keep hitting the tape, you are viewing the wealth management landscape correctly. Each and every week hundreds of millions, if not billions, in client assets are filling out asset transfer paperwork on Saturday and Sunday across the country. And there is no slow down in…
UBS thinks it’s a good idea to play with fire. That’s the best explanation we can come up with when evaluating the 2020 comp changes that have been leaked. In this sense, playing with fire is a catchy way of saying they feel comfortable going to war with their own advisors. The changes that are…