Louis Diamond Quoted – By Dina Hampton, FinancialPlanning – Greg Clifford, founder and CEO of the Clifford Group in Newton, Massachusetts, says he “grew up” at Merrill Lynch, gaining nods as a Forbes Top Next-Generation Wealth Advisor in 2018 and Best-in-State Next Generation Wealth Advisor in 2019. But as Clifford passed the decade mark at Merrill, the idea of breaking away planted itself in his mind and stayed there.
By Asia Martin, WealthManagement.com – LPL Financial recruited four advisors from Bank of America Merrill Lynch, where the team managed $650 million in assets under management.
Louis Diamond Mentioned – By Andrew Foerch, Citywire – NorthEnd Private Wealth is the first wirehouse breakaway group to join LPL Financial’s Strategic Wealth Services platform in 2021. Josh Brown, Scott Thompson, Joel Gray and James Cluverius Jr. formed the independent practice after leaving Merrill Lynch, where they report managing a combined $650m in advisory, brokerage and retirement plan assets. An LPL representative said they are the sixth group to join LPL’s advisor affiliation model, which launched last year.
Louis Diamond Quoted – By Jake Martin, AdvisorHub – A four-broker team in Greenville, South Carolina has left Merrill Lynch to launch an independent practice affiliated with LPL Financial’s fledgling Strategic Wealth Services model for wirehouse breakaways. The group, which moved on Thursday and is called NorthEnd Private Wealth, includes William Joshua (Josh) Brown, Scott Thompson, Joel Gray and James “Jake” Cluverius, Jr. They moved with their administrative assistants Jeannie Fowler and Ashley Thomason.
By Mason Braswell, AdvisorHub – Morgan Stanley Wealth Management has hired a four-person private wealth management team generating $4 million in annual revenue at UBS Wealth Management USA in Chicago, according to a person familiar with the move.
By Jake Martin, AdvisorHub – A solo advisor who had built a $279 million book as a broker at Merrill Lynch and other large brokerage firms has left the wirehouse world to start his own practice affiliated with Raymond James Financial in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida.
By Mason Braswell, AdvisorHub – Merrill Lynch has lost two top-ranked brokers in metropolitan New York City, extending a round of recent departures. In the other move of a Forbes-ranked Merrill broker, Robert A. Bezzone has joined Transcend Wealth Collective, a New Jersey RIA co-founded in 2019 by an ex-Merrill complex manager.
March 30, 2021
By Joyce Blay, Financial Advisor Magazine – RHA Wealth, an independent practice based in Raleigh, N.C., has joined the Sanctuary Wealth network, the companies recently said in a news release. The young team, consisting of Managing Directors John Rumsey, Robert Hartinger and Clark Abbott, and supported by registered Senior Wealth Associate Ashley Rushin, was formerly with Merrill Lynch, where members managed approximately $250 million in client assets.
By Alex Padalka, Financial Advisor IQ – Sanctuary Wealth says it has helped yet another team of Merrill Lynch financial advisors go independent. Raleigh, N.C.-based RHA Wealth includes managing directors John Rumsey, Robert Hartinger and Clark Abbott and registered senior wealth associate Ashley Rushin, Sanctuary says. The group manages roughly $250 million, according to the firm.
By Asia Martin, WealthManagement.com – Blue Bell, Penn. has a new registered investment advisor in town. Dynasty Financial Partners announced Tuesday it helped a former Merrill Lynch team that managed $1.2 billion in client assets, and generated $6.1 million in revenue, launch Amplius Wealth Advisors.
