How will the fight for clients among the big firms play out?
Wirehouse Strategies
With few new advisors coming into the industry, but total U.S. assets growing rapidly, Morgan Stanley, Wells Fargo, Merrill and others are having to up their compensation game and start distinguishing themselves in different ways if they want to secure a more substantial share of the wealth pie.
One way to tell where some of the financial services industry stand in the wealth management game is to look at some basic numbers. Read how the big firms compare with each other in their advisor headcounts, assets under management and other attributes.