# Advisor moves, week of Oct 12–18, 2026: 18 moves, led by $3.5B Houston team

URL: https://www.financialadvsr.com/article/advisor-moves-week-of-oct-12-18-2026-18-moves-led-by-3-5b-houston-147ead
Published: October 19, 2026
By: Grant Whitmore, Moves Correspondent
Section: Moves
Publisher: Financial ADVSR (https://www.financialadvsr.com)

The largest single move in the Financial ADVSR Moves tracker for the week of Oct 12–18, 2026 was a $3.5B Houston team, while Janney posted the week's biggest net recruiting gain.

WealthManagement.com reported that a Houston-based team with $3.5B in client assets moved from Raymond James to Janney in Houston, making it the largest single move in the Financial ADVSR Moves tracker for the week of Oct 12–18, 2026. The tracker recorded 18 advisor, team and executive moves that week, and the 11 moves that disclosed assets reported $18B in client assets combined. Janney also recorded the week's biggest net recruiting gain in the tracker, at +$6.8B in reported assets from two teams joining.

AdvisorHub separately reported a Raymond James team moving to Janney in Houston with $3.3B in client assets. The two outlets give different asset figures for Houston-area moves to Janney. This article does not reconcile them and presents each figure as the outlet reported it.

CAPTRUST was the next largest net gainer in the tracker, at +$3.0B in reported assets from one team joining. WealthManagement.com reported that the Hoge-Barrett Group, with $3.0B in client assets, moved from Truist to CAPTRUST in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

LPL Financial recorded +$1.6B in reported assets in the tracker, with two teams joining and one departure. Citywire RIA reported that Prince Financial Services, with $1.0B in client assets, moved from Northwestern Mutual to LPL Financial in Seattle. Financial Advisor IQ reported that a team with $580M in client assets moved from Merrill Lynch to LPL Financial. The material available for this article does not identify the team or advisor that left LPL, and the two arrivals are reported individually rather than as a breakdown of the net figure.

Moves to brokerage and bank platforms. InvestmentNews reported that a team with $1.2B in client assets moved from RBC to Ameriprise. The same outlet reported that a father-son tandem moved from UBS to RBC, and the tracker record for that move carries no asset figure. AdvisorHub reported that a Merrill Lynch team moved to Raymond James Financial Services in Bend, Oregon, and the tracker record for that move also carries no asset figure.

Moves to RIAs and independent firms. AdvisorHub reported that a Raymond James team with $1.4B in client assets moved to Kingswood Capital Partners in Chattanooga. The same outlet reported that the Kellam Group, with $1.2B in client assets, moved from Truist Bank to Rockefeller Global Family Office in Naples, Florida. AdvisorHub also reported that a Baltimore-area team with $1.1B in client assets moved from RBC Wealth Management to Indivisible Partners in Baltimore.

WealthManagement.com reported that Michael Lee and Steve Armaly, with $1.0B in client assets, moved from UBS to Ox Road Capital. Wealth Solutions Report reported that Perennial, with $500M in client assets, moved to Integrated Partners. WealthManagement.com reported that a former Hightower advisor team also moved to Integrated Partners.

Executive hires. Citywire RIA reported that Damon Joyner moved from SMArtX to Private Client Services. InvestmentNews reported that Matt Barthel moved to MAI Capital, that Kristie Edling-Day moved from LPL Financial to SEI, and that Hardeep Walia moved to TD Bank U.S.

The tracker also recorded 12 firm deals in the same week. Those deals are separate from the advisor, team and executive moves described above.

The full table for the week, along with past weeks, is available on the Financial ADVSR Recruiting Scoreboard at https://www.financialadvsr.com/advisor-moves/scoreboard/2026-10-12.

Key facts:
- The Financial ADVSR Moves tracker recorded 18 advisor, team and executive moves in the week of Oct 12–18, 2026.
- The 11 moves that disclosed assets reported $18B in client assets combined.
- Janney recorded the week's biggest net recruiting gain at +$6.8B in reported assets, from two teams joining.
- CAPTRUST recorded +$3.0B in reported assets from one team joining, and LPL Financial recorded +$1.6B from two teams joining and one leaving.
- The tracker recorded 12 firm deals in the same week.

Why it matters: Team moves carry client assets with them, so reported asset figures show how much business changed firms in a given week. Recruiters and firm leaders track net recruiting totals alongside individual moves because they show which firms are gaining and losing advisors over time. The outlets cited here reported several moves individually, and their asset figures do not always match.

Sources:
- financialadvsr.com: https://www.financialadvsr.com/advisor-moves/scoreboard/2026-10-12
- wealthmanagement.com: https://www.wealthmanagement.com/ibd-news/janney-launches-3-5b-houston-based-team-made-of-raymond-james-advisors
- advisorhub.com: https://www.advisorhub.com/janney-plants-flag-in-houston-with-3-3-billion-raymond-james-team/
- wealthmanagement.com: https://www.wealthmanagement.com/ria-news/captrust-adds-3-billion-hoge-barrett-group
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