When the market talks about RIA recruiting momentum, it often implies a broad wave of movement across the industry. The actual direct firm-to-firm data over the current 30-day window tells a narrower story. Once same-entity affiliate conversions are stripped out, there were 44 visible direct firm moves in total and only a handful of lanes repeated often enough to matter.
That left a much flatter leaderboard. Independent Advisor Alliance to CoreVision Financial Group led with four advisors, while Commonwealth Financial Network to Raymond James Financial Services Advisors and Kestra Advisory Services to The Ameriflex Group each contributed three. After those three routes, the market quickly breaks down into twos and ones.
The next tier reinforces the same point. Capital Investment Advisory Services to Edward Jones, Merrill Lynch to Voya Financial Advisors, and Silver Oak Securities to RFG Advisory each produced two-advisor lanes. That is not nothing, but it is a fragmented market rather than one dominated by a single runaway path.
The destination leaderboard tells a slightly different story. CoreVision Financial Group and LPL Financial tied for the top spot with four incoming advisors apiece, but they got there differently. CoreVision’s total came through one concentrated feeder lane, while LPL assembled the same number from a wider mix of smaller wins.
For homepage analysis, that makes the better recurring question less about who topped a gross hiring list and more about whether any recruiting lane still looks meaningful after affiliate reshuffling is removed. Repetition, not just volume, is the clearest signal that a move pattern is turning into a real competitive lane.
Methodology
Based on direct firm-to-firm advisor moves across completed individual snapshots from February 7, 2026 through March 8, 2026. Firms sharing the same current business name, headquarters city and state, and main phone number are treated as one entity so affiliate conversions do not count as recruiting lanes. New-to-industry additions and broad onboarding totals are excluded so the piece focuses only on visible origin-to-destination recruiting paths.