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RBC Still on Wealth Management Hiring Trail - Report

Nick Parmee 27 February 2009

RBC Still on Wealth Management Hiring Trail - Report


RBC Wealth Management, part of
Royal Bank of

Canada
, continues to hire from bigger brokerages damaged by market turmoil; according to Dow Jones, the firm has taken on 68 financial consultants in the first quarter of the 2009 financial year.

US hires include Curtis Faulkner at the

Bend,
Oregon, office from
Morgan Stanley
as a financial consultant; he reports to Stuart Johns, branch director. In


Pasadena, Michael Healy has joined from
Citi’s Smith Barney
brokerage as branch director.

RBC has also hired

Richard Sorenson from
UBS Wealth Management US as director of the firm's


Portland,
Oregon, complex.

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