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October 12, 2020

Morgan Stanley Hires Merrill Lifer with $473-Mln Book in Illinois

by Mason Braswell
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While Morgan Stanley Wealth Management broadened its client base with its purchase of discount brokerage E*Trade Financial ten days ago, it continued its push to maintain its army of full-service brokers through a renewed recruiting effort.

On Friday, the wirehouse hired Karl Lorenz, a career Merrill Lynch veteran near Chicago who a source said produced more than $2 million in fees and commissions in the last 12 months.

Lorenz, who left his Merrill branch in Northbrook for a Morgan Stanley office in Deerfield, was managing about $473 million as of January, according to Forbes, which ranked him #59 on its list of top advisors in Illinois.

The advisor, who joined Morgan Stanley with one of his two client associates, according to his new firm’s website, did not return a call for comment. He started his career at Merrill in 1994, according to his BrokerCheck record.

Morgan Stanley the previous Friday reached into UBS Wealth Management USA to hire Matthew R. Ricketts as producing manager of its branch in Napa, CA. Ricketts, who Morgan Stanley described in a press release as “a seasoned North Bay professional” in Napa, Sonoma and Marin counties, had earlier worked at Morgan Stanley for almost ten years before joining UBS in July 2008. He also had been a producing branch manager at UBS.

Neither Ricketts nor Walnut Creek complex manager George Schick returned calls for comment on Ricketts’ decision to move.

A Morgan Stanley spokeswoman confirmed Lorenz’ and Ricketts’ hires.

Their arrivals extend a revived national recruiting streak for the wirehouse following a retrenchment in 2017, the same year it attempted to stem attrition among its 15,000 brokers by withdrawing from the Protocol for Broker Recruiting that permits them to move with client-contact information.  It hired two UBS producers in Florida with about $2.6 million in combined production earlier this month, and in September attracted dozens of brokers and associates with over $5 billion in assets in a single week.

“People aren’t worried these days about joining a firm that is not in the Protocol because they could still leave with a good prospect of keeping clients if they follow the rules [of their contracts],” said Mark Elzweig, a New York-based recruiter who does not work with the wirehouse. “Morgan Stanley has the same aging salesforce as everyone else, and can hire good people.”

A spokesperson at UBS, which has dipped its toes into the recruiting pond this year after retreating in 2016, declined to comment. In contrast to Morgan Stanley’s recruiting from traditional competitors, UBS has drawn most of its new recruits from private banks and asset management firms with small wealth management arms.

Merrill Lynch, the sole wirehouse maintaining a freeze on hiring veteran brokers, has been focusing on training newbie advisors and opening its brokerage force to Bank of America employees, including Merrill Edge advisors and client associates.

In another move out of Merrill, Donald Dearie on Friday joined Seventy2 Capital, an approximately $1 billion-asset independent practice in Bethesda, MD, affiliated with Wells Fargo’s Financial Network channel.

Dearie worked for nine years of his ten-year career at Merrill, and was managing $60 million in client assets, according to Thomas Fautrel, co-founder of Seventy2 Capital. Fautrel and business partner Paul Carlson worked at Morgan Stanley before starting Seventy2 almost four years ago.

In another wirehouse breakaway to an independent firm, Rajat Rajan—a broker for 32 years—left Wells Fargo Advisors in McLean, Va., two weeks ago to join New Jersey-based Gladstone Wealth Partners, an independent firm affiliated with LPL Financial.

Rajan oversaw about $125 million of brokerage, advisory and retirement plan assets at Wells, where he had worked for a decade, and joined Gladstone’s Financial Resources Group as an RIA on LPL’s corporate platform.

“This will be our first push into the D.C. metro market and in partnership with LPL, we continue our rapid growth in 2020,” Gladstone Wealth Partners CEO Richard Frick said in a prepared statement.

Frick was a former complex manager for Morgan Stanley in Philadelphia.

Rajan, who began his brokerage career in 1998 at UBS, began “evaluating options about two years ago after recognizing a need to take more control of his business,” LPL and Gladstone said in a news release.

—Jed Horowitz contributed to this story.

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  • on Oct 12 2020, PATHETIC says:

    The trainee/FA flunky turned Merrill Edge or banking center “advisor” numbers have almost overtaken the experienced, successful FA numbers. In a year or two they will be the majority. We’re beyond the tipping point. Older FA’s (Which make up a whole lot of the remaining FA’s) who don’t have the energy or courage to move will continue to take CTP and leave their books to the younger FA’s who will be trapped and controlled by BAC. The successful ones will then leave after a few years – leaving the weaker ones to be controlled even more by BAC, especially in regards to continued pay cuts. Successful younger CTP recipients who are already currently in the CTP program are counting the days to freedom and will leave even sooner. What will remain will be a pathetic shadow of what once was the most coveted, admired, and successful brand/culture on Wall Street.

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  • on Oct 12 2020, Anonymous says:

    Merrill will lose $20B more this year in advisor losses than last year and I’m sure 2021 will be even worse. But as more FAs enter CPT they can lock in younger FAs to non-compete clauses and then spring the trap– salary + bonus for all FAs.

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  • on Oct 12 2020, stupid says:

    Morgan Stanley will do the same thing.

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  • on Oct 12 2020, SAD says:

    In a few years from now my grandchildren won’t believe me when I tell them the Merrill Lynch brand used to be to the admired company in the financial services industry what Apple presently is to the tech industry – Not the Commodore 64/Kodak/AOL it become.

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  • on Oct 12 2020, HR says:

    The next wave of wealth wants little to do with the major wirehouses. I feel for all of those that don’t realize they have options, and you don’t have to deal with all of the BS.

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    • on Oct 12 2020, Arnie says:

      Maybe with a couple of hundred grand or lower. Otherwise you’re dead wrong. But a business owner or professional with a million or higher they need a live person they can build a relationship with. The Andy and Brian team know that but they don’t care.

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  • on Oct 12 2020, Joe says:

    Lorenz brother runs the NYC region for ML. Talk about embarrassing for Andy…

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  • on Oct 13 2020, Former PBIG & NB OPS says:

    Is anybody left in the Northbrook branch?

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