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Skafco, a $300M team from Dublin, Ohio, is now affiliated with Cetera from Mass Mutual. Both planners have more than three decades in the industry.

Teams are taking longer to switch brokerages as the pandemic recedes and advisors return to the office, according to John Pierce, the firm’s head recruiter.

Updated on December 23, 2020 at 7:39 am NBC Universal, Inc. When San Franciscos de Young Museum put out an open call last summer for artworks by Bay Area artists for a special exhibition, it got nearly 11,000 submissions, which a jury then whittled down to just under 800 -- not knowing who the artists were behind the works. It came as a surprise when it was revealed one of the pieces chosen -- an abstract blue painting with layered colored squares was somewhat symbolic of the colorfully layered...