Clients allege lack of suitability and due diligence by B-Ds.
RIA consolidator fills senior marketing and practice management spots.
At meetings this year, LPL is talking up its ability to finance advisers' growth.
As some wirehouses hire more salaried advisers, speculation mounts that the traditional way of compensating brokers is being threatened.
235 individual advisers or teams with $61.5 billion in assets left a wirehouse in 2018 to work at another type of firm, InvestmentNews data show.
The industry's largest IBD recruits advisers with $7.1 billion in first quarter.
GPB Capital is now a year late in making important financial information public. Finra could discipline brokers who sold the private placement.
Morgan Stanley terminated Michael Wu in March after he did not cooperate with the firm's investigation.
Firm cuts its regions by one-third with hopes of reducing bureaucracy.
The company will join other broker-dealers cross-selling banking products such as mortgages and home equity loans through its adviser workforce.
