Insight into M&A in the industry

In an email marked "confidential", Cetera Financial Group tells its financial advisors that selling their own practices without a greenlight from the corporate office could draw FINRA scrutiny, carrying major implications for independent brokers, who have in many cases left wirehouses in order to operate their own businesses with more flexibility and less burdensome oversight.

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