Sean Khaligh, who joined Wells in 2007, is affiliating with LPL through The Financial Services Network and has formed EQ Private Wealth Advisors in Palos Verdes, California.
Last year, the SEC charged the unregistered adviser at the heart of the matter with defrauding a town in Puerto Rico and misappropriating $7.1 million.
Veteran advisers in Oklahoma and Utah affiliate with Cetera through Texas-based Farpointe Wealth Partners.
Polaris is headed by partners Corey Basehore and Justin Dunwoody and includes adviser Sarah Leer, two junior advisers and a nine-member office staff.
Wealth Advisory Services, a hybrid in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, had been affiliated with Raymond James for five years.
Carrie Turcotte and Crystal Walker run NorthShore Financial Strategies in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
Altus Consulting Group, based in Texas and Wisconsin, becomes an office of supervisory jurisdiction.
Sandstone Wealth and its two advisers were formerly affiliated with Raymond James and Royal Alliance.
LPL's new deal to attract employee advisers has two parts: an upfront signing bonus and a second bonus that's paid over several years.
David Crossan and John Stephens Jr. set up shop in Manahawkin and Manchester on the New Jersey shore.
John Vande Bossche leads the six-person team in Anaheim, California, that includes his wife, son and daughter.
Francis Ciocari is affiliating with the firm through super OSJ Gladstone Wealth Partners and will be opening an office in Blue Bell, Pennsylvania.
LPL made clear it was eyeing Voya financial advisers after Cetera Financial Group Inc. said it was buying the firm in February.
The six-adviser team at TBT Financial Services is based in Tyler and Longview, Texas
Allison Taylor leads the all-female group in Huntington Beach, California.
The two advisers are affiliating with LPL Financial through its service for breakaway brokers.
For decades, the prevailing wisdom among recruiters and industry executives has been that wirehouse advisers are far less likely to move to independent broker-dealers than other advisers.
After 14 years as the firm's chief investment officer, Burt White is retiring in March, according to a company announcement. LPL, now with more than 19,000 affiliated financial advisers, is currently looking for a replacement.
When Louis Hanna was fired in 2017, he was 50 years old, had early-stage prostate cancer and was seeking medical leave, according to the complaint.
Ken South and his team open Tower 68 Financial Advisors in Newport Beach, California.
