Cetera CEO Valerie Brown Steps Down; Larry Roth to Run RCAP’s IBD Group
May 13, 2014 by Janet Levaux, ThinkAdvisor The moves come less than a year after Roth left the AIG-owned Advisor Group to join RCS Capital, which recently acquired Cetera Nicholas Schorsch and RCS Capital Corp. (RCAP) have reshuffled the leadership of the group’s advice platform and its roughly 9,000 independent reps. Larry Roth, who moved to RCS from the AIG-owned Advisor Group less than a year ago, will now be CEO of its independent broker-dealer operations, RCAP said early Tuesday. The IBD business incudes First Allied Securities and the four Cetera Financial Group broker/dealers, which have already been bought, in addition to Investors Capital, Summit Brokerage Services and J.P. Turner & Co., which are in the process of being acquired by RCAP. CEO Valerie Brown of Cetera Financial is leaving the company, RCAP says. "Over...