01/27/2012

Oster Named CCO At KPMG

Oster most recently served in the Obama administration as a senior appointee at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and the agency’s top communications and public affairs official.

01/27/2012

United Capital adds Harold Brown team

Peter Grogan, Will Kelly and Mimi Schanzlin are the latest to leave the New York-based broker-dealer Harold C. Brown & Co, which is closing its doors after roughly 80 years in the business.

01/26/2012

LPL Financial adds eight advisers

Napolitano, who has spent roughly two decades in the advising industry, had previously been registered with Lincoln Financial Securities Corp.

01/26/2012

Ameriprise poaches veteran adviser

"This is a great example of someone who was at a wirehouse for many decades and really had a strong desire to go independent," said Hiter, who now oversees Hanks.

01/26/2012

MSSB hires $2.1 mln Merrill team

Morgan Stanley Smith Barney, the largest U.S. brokerage, hired two veteran advisers from Merrill Lynch to its broker base, a source with knowledge of the move told Reuters on Wednesday.

01/25/2012

Wells Fargo adds six veteran advisers

The six, who joined Wells Fargo & Co in Arizona, California, Florida and Michigan, managed a combined $728 million in client assets at their previous firms.

01/24/2012

Former Exchange Chief Takes Helm at RIM in Shakeup

With the new position, Stymiest shifts from banking and finance to technology, as the smartphone seller tries to stem a plunge in sales and declining market share to bigger competitors such as Apple Inc.

01/24/2012

Liberum Capital appointments new CEO

He joins from JP Morgan Cazenove where he headed up the European and Emerging Market sales team since the merger of the two companies in 2010.