By Intense Life Desires 
Commonwealth Financial Network advisors keep voting with their feet, moving to firms like Cetera, Osaic and Raymond James rather than make a new home at LPL Financial.
Meanwhile, Wells Fargo pulled three teams from Merrill, Osaic nabbed a team from Primerica (and got hit with a lawsuit as a result) and Stifel sold its channel for independent advisors. Read about all that, and a big promotion at Wells, below.