Rockefeller Capital Management's spring recruiting streak is extending through the summer, adding a six-advisor Merrill Lynch team overseeing $2.1 billion to open a new Columbus, Ohio office.

Wells Fargo Advisors recruited The Sheresky Samsen Group from RBC Capital Markets, a Greenwich, Connecticut team overseeing more than $1.7 billion in client assets, extending one of 2026's strongest recruiting runs.

Merrill Lynch recruited a six-advisor Morgan Stanley team overseeing $13 billion in institutional assets in the Boston area, according to an AdvisorHub report.

Morgan Stanley recruited TruCore Advisors, a J.P. Morgan Securities team managing approximately $1.5 billion in client assets, signaling a more aggressive recruiting posture.

Shyan Ardalan, a 35-year-old Merrill advisor managing roughly $1.3 billion in Los Angeles, left for Morgan Stanley after spending his entire career at the Thundering Herd.

A veteran UBS advisory team overseeing approximately $3.5 billion in client assets has left the wirehouse to launch an independent registered investment advisor in San Francisco.

NewEdge added Birmingham-based Stonegate Investment Group, a $6 billion advisory practice, to the Pillar Channel of NewEdge Advisors — its largest buy yet for the employee-affiliation model.

Seven Bridges Wealth Advisors, a 14-person team managing roughly $1 billion, left Ameriprise's franchisee channel to join NewEdge Capital Group in White Plains, New York.

Wells Fargo Advisors has recruited its third billion-dollar team in roughly a single week, continuing one of the more notable recruiting stretches in wealth management this year.

The steady drumbeat of large defections from Ameriprise continues to grow louder as another tenured, high-producing group left to start an independent RIA.