As is usual after the holiday period, September was busy for the number of moves and appointments in the sector.

Withers appointed senior partner Jon Bond to join its private capital debt finance team. Bond used to work at Charles Russell Speechlys. He was joined by senior associate Isobel Young-Herries. 

UK wealth manager JM Finn appointed Lucy Coutts, who has been at JM Finn since 2011, as head of its York office. 

Switzerland-based LindemannLaw appointed Michael Betschart as an attorney. Betschart works in business and corporate law, capital markets and stock exchange law, as well as real estate law. He is a notary public of the Canton of Schwyz. Prior to this appointment, Betschart worked in the legal department of Ernst & Young and in various professional and service positions at Swisscom.

The Julius Baer Foundation appointed former Credit Suisse senior figure Laura Hemrika as chief executive. Since the end of 2022, the Foundation has been led by Nathalie Jean-Baptiste,  ad interim deputy CEO of the Foundation, after former CEO Christoph Schmocker left last year. Hemrika has more than 20 years of experience in philanthropy, sustainability, and impact investing solutions. At Credit Suisse, she most recently served as global head corporate citizenship and foundations and managing director of the Credit Suisse Foundation. 

Cazenove Capital appointed Richard Wood as a portfolio director in the North East of the UK. Wood, who has more than 20 years of experience in the finance sector, joinined from UBS where he spent over five years as a director, working with high net worth clients across the North of England. 

Ascot Lloyd, a UK independent financial advisor, appointed Jaco Cebula in the newly-created role as group technology director. For the past 18 months, Cebula has worked with the Ascot Lloyd team as a technology consultant for Sionic, a global consulting firm. Previously, he served as chief technology officer at Multrees Investor Services and as a member of the IT management team at Aegon Asset Management. 

Walker Crips Financial Planning, part of the Walker Crips Group, made two new senior hires in the Midlands and South West: Matthew Crawshaw joined the firm as regional director for the Midlands, where his focus is on developing the practice in Birmingham, Leicester and Nottingham. Crawshaw joined from abrdn, where he was regional director for the North and Midlands, leading a team of financial planners as well as looking after his own portfolio of specialised clients.

Kaz Dev was appointed as associate director in the South West region, which includes existing group offices in Bristol and Truro. He joined from Francis Clark Financial Planning, where he served as head of professional services and chartered financial planner.

The chief executive of Switzerland’s Alpian, Schuyler Weiss, left the bank which he had led since it was founded five years ago, to pursue a public services career in the US. Gianmarco Bonaita, previously the deputy CEO, acted as ad interim CEO.

Nedgroup Investments appointed Rachel Ferguson as client solutions lead. Ferguson, who reports to chief commercial officer Apiramy Jeyarajah, previously worked as a business development manager at Aegon Asset Management (formally Kames Capital). She was with the firm for a total of seven years. 

C Hoare & Co appointed Lucy Porter as a relationship manager for the South West of England, including Bristol and Bath. She reports to senior relationship manager Emily Corbett. Porter, who has been with C Hoare & Co since 2015 as a relationship manager based in London, previously worked for HSBC Private Bank.

Ocorian appointed Chantal Free as CEO, subject to regulatory approval. Free joined from Capita where she was CEO of its portfolio division, leading a portfolio of businesses across a range of sectors including insurance, legal, consulting and technology. Previously she spent 23 years at Willis Towers Watson. 

Private equity platform Moonfare appointed Marine Eugène to the newly-created role of chief commercial officer. Previously, Eugène was managing director at US-based fractional jet ownership firm Flexjet. 

The chief executive of FINMA, the Swiss financial regulator, stepped down, saying that the stress of the job damaged his health. Urban Angehrn, who departed the organisation, was succeeded by ad interim deputy CEO, Birgit Rutishauser.

Canaccord Genuity Wealth International appointed Jamie Lang as an investment manager in the Isle of Man. Lang has worked in the Island’s finance sector for over 15 years.

European fintech Axyon AI appointed industry expert Gary Chropuvka to join its advisory committee. Chropuvka, who is based in the US, has more than 20 years’ experience in quantitative investing. 

Titanbay, the private markets investment platform for private banks, wealth managers and family offices, appointed Ossama Soliman as chief operating officer. Soliman has worked in technology and financial services for almost 20 years – for American Express and Amazon for example. 

Burgess Mee Family Law appointed Charlotte Ballard Scott as a consultant. Prior to this, Ballard Scott was a partner in the family department at Kingsley Napley until 2007, focusing on both financial and children work.

High net worth divorce law firm specialist Lowry Legal appointed mediator and family lawyer Michelle Uppal as a partner.

City of London-based Square Mile Investment Consulting and Research (Square Mile) appointed Maria Mealing as a business development director. Mealing, who has more than 30 years’ industry experience, was most recently an associate director, UK strategic partnerships at Janus Henderson.

ARC Group appointed Marcus Porter as a member of the senior management team. Most recently, Porter was a managing director at AlTi Tiedemann Global, an investment advisory and multi-family office business. Before this he was head of PwC Investment, having previously worked at Deloitte and Andersen. 

Plurimi Wealth Dubai, part of the Plurimi business operating in several jurisdictions, confirmed that a former senior Bank of Singapore figure, Walid Tawfiq, joined as managing director.

Julius Baer appointed Riccardo Corzani as head of a new group and as new market head Italy, reporting to Ettore Bonsignore, sub region head Italy and Ticino. Corzani joined from Credit Suisse, where he worked for seven years. Since 2019, he had been the head Italy International and Monaco in the international wealth management division. 
 

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EFG International appointed Francesca Speroni as team leader and deputy head of private banking of EFG Private Bank, the UK arm of EFG International. Speroni is responsible for delivering private banking and investment services to UK and international clients from the Mayfair office of EFG Private Bank. She reports to Michael Vlahovic, head of private banking UK.

Speroni joined from Credit Suisse, where she was a managing director and served as team leader UK for more than five years. Prior to that, she was director of the family office team at Barclays.

HSBC Private Banking UK recruited a team of relationship managers in its London office to focus on financial markets professionals â€“ a new proposition across both high net worth and ultra-high net worth segments.

Phil Aleppo leads the team, reporting directly to Charles Boulton, CEO, private banking UK. Aleppo has worked for more than 25 years in wealth management. He joined from Credit Suisse where he led a team of UHNW and HNW bankers in the UK domestic team. Prior to this, he spent 10 years at Barclays Private Bank. Henri Etchegoyen, Brad Werner, Usmaan Aziz and Oliver Beasan joined the team.

Brown Shipley, a Quintet Private Bank, appointed Andrew Kyle as chief financial officer. Kyle, who served as CFO of Coutts for the last five years, joined Brown Shipley as CFO designate, working alongside the firm’s outgoing CFO, Andrew Curran, who will be retiring in March 2024. 

Indosuez Wealth Management appointed Emile Salawi, the former head of key clients and single-family offices, as head of the Middle East.

UBS appointed Ulrike Hoffmann-Burchardi to join UBS Global Wealth Management’s chief investment office as head of CIO equities. Based in Zurich, reporting to Mark Haefele chief investment officer at UBS Global Wealth Management, Hoffmann-Burchardi joined from Tudor Investment Corporation, a global investment firm.

Van Lanschot Kempen Investment Management appointed Huub van der Riet as senior portfolio manager and Chong Peng as portfolio manager.

Law firm Charles Russell Speechlys appointed David Cordova Flores as tax partner in the Luxembourg office. He has over two decades of experience guiding clients through complex international tax planning and structuring. 

The online bank N26 appointed Claudio Bedino as the general manager for Italy and Southeast Europe. Bedino succeeded Andrea Isola, who held the position temporarily following his recent appointment as VP of European Markets and Business Operations at N26.

EFG International also appointed former Credit Suisse senior figure Joseph Wolf as CEO of the Israel business; he reports to Franco Polloni, the head of Switzerland and Italy region of EFG. In his new role, Wolf works with Michael Dadoun, who was appointed as head of private banking for Israel. 

Carmignac appointed Guillaume Rigeade, Eliezer Ben Zimra, Jacques Hirsch and Christophe Moulin as co-managers of Carmignac Patrimoine.

Dillon Eustace appointed Etain de Valera as head of its Asset Management & Investment Funds practice. She took over from Donnacha O’Connor, who is continuing to work for the firm as managing partner and as a senior partner in the Asset Management & Investment Funds team. De Valera joined Dillon Eustace LLP in 2001 and became a partner in 2006. 

UK-based Close Brothers Asset Management appointed Mark Henley and Simon Tabb as senior investment directors to bolster the team at its London City office.

Canaccord Genuity Wealth Management UK and Crown Dependencies made Adam Ross and Rupert Stone divisional directors. Ross has been at the firm since 2014. Stone joined the business following the acquisition of Punter Southall Wealth in May 2022.

Julius Baer made six senior appointments to expand its Iberian, Middle East and African coverage from Zurich.

Ramon Marco, Enric Mateu and Fernando Pedraza all joined Julius Baer as senior relationship managers from Credit Suisse in September. The firm also welcomed three new colleagues for the Middle East and Africa desk in Zurich during the summer months. Roberto Faoro joined as deputy team head along with senior relationship managers Moetaz Eid and Muhammad Salahuddin. 

Quilter appointed Chris Jones as academy director of its Financial Adviser School (FAS). Jones joined from wealth management firm St James’s Place. Most recently, he was head of change and prioritisation, having previously been head of academy for the north.

Quintet Private Bank, the European parent of Brown Shipley,  appointed Anna Zakrzewski as group chief operating officer. Based in Luxembourg, she succeeded Eli Leenaars, who retired. Previously, Zakrzewski served for over two decades at Boston Consulting Group.

Italy's Mediobanca Group named Carlo Giausa as deputy general manager and central manager of Wealth Management, Advisory & Solutions of CheBanca!, reporting to general manager Lorenzo Bassani. Giausa works alongside Duccio Marconi, deputy general manager and central manager of the Fas network, and Gianluca Talato, deputy general manager and central commercial manager of the branches network.

Giausa was also appointed as Mediobanca Group head of Wealth Management Global Offering, reporting in this case to Mediobanca Group general manager Francesco Saverio Vinci. 

Canaccord Genuity Wealth Management UK and Crown Dependencies appointed David Blake, investment director. Blake was formerly at Rathbones, where he managed private and institutional clients, charities, family offices and entrepreneurs. 

Old Mill, based in the South West of the UK, appointed chartered financial planner Tim Blowers to join the wealth management team.

Deutsche Bank appointed LoĂŻc Voide as its new chief country officer for the bank in Switzerland, and CEO for Deutsche Bank (Suisse). He took over from Marco Pagliara in both roles after Pagliara was appointed head of emerging markets at the German lender’s private bank in June this year. Voide joined the German bank in 2015.

LLB (Schweiz) AG (formerly Bank Linth LLB AG) appointed RenĂ© Zwicky as chairman of the board of management. He succeeded David Sarasin, who has asked to leave LLB Schweiz at the end of this year. 

Quilter Cheviot appointed Kevin Speake as head of advice, reporting to Tim Childe, head of the Quilter Cheviot International and Jersey office. Before this, he was at Quilter Private Client Advisers where he was regional director for London and the South West. 

Arthur J Gallagher & Co, a global player in insurance brokerage, risk management, and consulting services, named David Piltz as its new chief executive officer of Gallagher’s Employee Benefits & HR Consulting Division in the UK.

Deutsche Bank named Saad Osseiran as head of wealth management – Middle East/GCC (based in Dubai); Billy Obregon, the head of LATAM, was appointed head of wealth management – LATAM (based in New York). 

Esther Wong, named head of institutional wealth management and family offices, is market head within Southeast Asia, based in Singapore and leads the institutional wealth management initiative.

Rajesh Madahevan remains head of global South Asia and Africa (GSA&A) (based in Dubai). Johanes Oeni remained as head of wealth management for Southeast Asia (based in Singapore); Kanas Chan stayed as head of wealth management – North Asia (based in Hong Kong); and Amit Bhatia stayed on as head of wealth management – India Onshore (based in Dubai).
 

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Asia-Pacific
Cohen & Steers, the investment house concentrating on sectors such as real estate, infrastructure and commodities, named a head of wealth for Asia-Pacific, Liyen Wee. Her remit covers Asia, excluding Japan; she is based in Singapore and reports to David Conway, head of international wholesale distribution.

Wee, who has more than 18 years of sales and client relationship experience in the asset management industry, most recently served as director of the financial intermediaries’ group at Lazard Asset Management where she led the Southeast Asia financial intermediaries and wholesale distribution business. 

360 ONE, the India-focused firm that used to be called IIFL Wealth & Asset Management, launched a global platform and hired industry veteran Vikram Malhotra as the co-founder and CEO of 360 ONE Global, as the platform is called. 

Malhotra served as the global market head for Global South Asia and Middle East at Bank of Singapore. He has more than three decades of experience across prestigious institutions, including Barclays, UBS, and ABN AMRO. 

Standard Chartered Bank appointed Mike Tan as global head of wealth planning and family advisory. Tan reports to Raymond Ang, global head, Private & Affluent Banking. Tan has more than 20 years of experience in wealth and succession, family office, family governance and philanthropy planning and advisory. Most recently, Tan was part of the Wealth Advisory team at JP Morgan NA, Singapore.

Global investment firm Cambridge Associates expanded its Asia investment team. It relocated managing director, Ming Yan, from the firm’s Boston office to Singapore. Yan reports to Aaron Costello, regional head for Asia. 

HSBC appointed Lok Yim, Deutche Bank's former Hong Kong CEO, as its regional head of Global Private Banking, Asia Pacific. Yim, who left Deutsche Bank in 2022, succeeds Siew Meng Tan, who retired after a career of nearly 40 years in banking. Tan spent two decades at HSBC in senior roles, including the past seven years leading HSBC’s Global Private Banking business in Asia Pacific. He will remain as an advisor to the business until March 2024.

Yim has almost three decades’ private banking and capital markets experience. He was at Deutsche Bank for 16 years, most recently as CEO, Hong Kong SAR. Yim is based in Hong Kong and reports to Annabel Spring, CEO, Global Private Banking and Wealth, on a functional basis, and Kai Zhang, head of Wealth and Personal Banking, South Asia on an entity basis.

Hong Kong
Kenny Ng joined RBC Wealth Management as managing director, team head in Hong Kong, reporting to Ignatius K K (Iggy) Chong – head of enterprise private clients, Asia and interim market head, Greater China.

Ng previously worked at Credit Suisse where he was director, cluster head, and prior to that DBS Bank where he was a private client desk head. 

Singapore
Three additional relationship managers joined RBC Wealth Management, in Singapore. They report to Shaun Lim – managing director and market head, North Asia to work with clients and prospects from Taiwan and mainland China markets.

Charles Hsu joined RBC as a managing director, relationship manager. Most recently Hsu was cluster head, executive director at Credit Suisse covering the Greater China Market. 

Denise Toh, who joined as a managing director, relationship manager, has 28 years of banking experience, most recently as senior relationship manger, executive director, Greater China Market at Credit Suisse. Previously, Toh worked at Citibank.

Cheryl Ang, who joined as an executive director, relationship manager, has more than 20 years’ experience, most recently as executive director, Greater China Market at Credit Suisse. 

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Bank of Singapore appointed Samuel Huen as global head of legal and regulatory compliance. Huen reorts to Jason Moo, chief executive. Huen took on the responsibilities of global head of legal, Eric The, and global head of regulatory compliance, Adriel Loh. Teh will be retiring in 2024, while Loh will focus on his role as OCBC’s group head of regulatory compliance. 

A Singaporean national, Huen previously spent 18 years with UBS, where he was a member of the Singapore management committee and, in his last six years, he led group legal for Singapore.

Nitin Singh started as head of Barclays Private Bank Asia, based in Mumbai. The role is a new one for the UK bank. Singh overseess the Barclays private banking business in Singapore and India. Most recently, he was managing director and CEO of Mumbai-based Avendus Wealth Management. Previously, he served in several leadership roles at Standard Chartered and HSBC in the UK and India, the bank said. He reports to private banking CEO Jean-Christophe Gerard and APAC head Jaideep Khanna. 

Singapore-based head of private banking Evonne Tan changed her reporting line from head of UK international private bank, James Penny, to Singh. Sandeep Das, head of private clients in India, left the bank to pursue another opportunity.

Hang Seng Bank appointed Regina Lee as head of commercial banking and a member of its executive committee. Lee succeeded Donald Lam, who assumed a senior role until his retirement in January 2024 after 21 years of service. Before this job, Lee was managing director and head of commercial banking at HSBC Singapore. 

Columbia Threadneedle Investments made two appointments in its Asia-Pacific business. It appointed Lucy Martin to the new role of vice president, responsible investment product specialist for the region while it also named Gregory Da Silva as product manager for APAC. Both individuals, who are based in Singapore, report to Sandra Cheng, chief executive for Singapore.

M&G Investments appointed an Asia-Pacific risk and compliance chief, Elaine Cheung. The role is a new one. Cheung most recently worked at rival fund management group Janus Henderson Investors, where she was involved in its risk, compliance and governance framework for APAC.

Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation appointed Jeff Ng as head of Asia macro strategy for its global markets and treasury business. Ng, who is based in Singapore, has more than 14 years’ experience including roles at Deutsche Bank and Standard Chartered covering global markets as a strategist.

Natixis Corporate & Investment Banking appointed Abbas Rangwala in the newly-created role of head of mergers and acquisitions for Southeast Asia and India. Rangwala, who most recently was group head of mergers, acquisitions and business development at Bharti Enterprises, the Indian corporate, is based in Singapore. Rangwala reports to Miranda Zhao, head of M&A, Asia-Pacific, and Bertrand Guiot, head of real assets and investment banking, Southeast Asia and head of infrastructure fund coverage for APAC.

Ping An, the Chinese insurance group, appointed Michael Guo Xiaotao – current chief human resources officer – as its co-chief executive. It also accepted Jessica Tan’s resignation as co-CEO and as executive vice president. Guo joined Ping An Group in September 2019.

WRISE Group appointed Helen Lam as group chief operating officer, and Gaven Koh as group head of Risk & Compliance of WRISE Group. Lam oversees the governance and operations of the group, and Koh manages compliance-related requirements of internal and external stakeholders such as risk assessments, frameworks, policies and guidelines. Both report to Derrick Tan, chairman, WRISE Group.

S64, an alternatives and technology partner for asset managers and private banks, appointed David Hallifax as head of Australia and New Zealand. Halifax, who is based in Melbourne, has more than two decades of distribution and private markets experience.
 

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North America
Fidelis Capital brought in a team of advisors from Bank of America Private Bank, overseeing more than $4.5 billion of client money.

The team of five people, which has launched with an office in Washington DC, includes: 

-- Christopher F Tate, partner, wealth strategist; 
-- Michael J Sellers, partner, portfolio manager; 
-- Benjamin A Hilyard, partner, fiduciary specialist; 
-- Aaron J Wall, partner, portfolio manager; and 
-- Ashley Connor, client service associate.

Fidelis Capital also appointed Christopher Gunster to lead its fixed income initiative. He was most recently at Bank of America as managing director and head of fixed income portfolio management for BoA’s chief investment office. 

Ballast Rock Private Wealth, the RIA, appointed Jim Carroll as a senior wealth advisor and portfolio manager. Carroll, based in Charleston, was most recently senior vice president and portfolio manager at Toroso Advisors, which he joined in June 2019. Previously, he founded Long Run Capital Management in 2003 to manage investments for HNW families and related trusts and charitable vehicles.

Oppenheimer & Co, the New York-listed wealth manager and investment bank, added 10 members to its distressed debt team. The team, which joined from TD Cowen, combined with Oppenheimer's high-yield desk. It is led by managing director Jay McDermott, reporting to Peter Albano, senior MD and global head of fixed income. In addition to TD Cowen, McDermott has worked for Bear Stearns, RBS and Debtstream Corp over the course of his more than 25-year career. 

The members include:

-- Tim Cavanaugh, MD, loan sales and sourcing; 
-- Michael Kasper, MD, sales; 
-- Harvey Potter, MD, sales; 
-- Eric Friel, head of high yield and distressed research; 
-- David Kelley, head of distressed trading; 
-- Ron Ryder, head of special assets; 
-- Jon Satran, head of bank loans; 
-- Matt Feldman, executive director, research; 
-- Francesca Sena, executive director, legal; and 
-- Brian Smyth, associate – research/sourcing.

Emigrant Bank Fine Art Finance (EBFAF) – part of Emigrant Bank –  appointed Suzanne Gyorgy as a partner. She was previously at Citigroup where she had spent 14 years at the private bank as global head of art advisory and finance.

Savvy Advisors, the national RIA affiliate of Savvy Wealth, brought in Frank Remund as principal wealth manager. Remund, who left Springwater Wealth Management, is based in Boise, Idaho.

Two financial advisors who had both worked together at Edward Jones have reunited to join the independent channel of Ameriprise Financial, which holds almost $150 million of client assets in Breaux Bridge, Louisiana. Josh Perello is joining from Raymond James and Jimmy Guidry is joining from Edward Jones, Ameriprise said in a statement this week.

Argent Trust Company hired Vince Chamblee as a senior vice president and wealth advisor. Based in Oxford, Mississippi, Chamblee reports to Brooks Campany, Oxford market president. Chamblee has over 13 years of experience within the financial services industry. Jennifer O’Connell also joined Argent Trust Company as a trust officer to assist with trust and estate planning. 

Global business advisory firm EisnerAmper appointed Tami Clemenza as a partner in its forensic, litigation and valuation services group. Clemenza has more than three decades of experience providing forensic accounting services, focusing on matrimonial litigation support and dispute resolution. 

Hamilton Lane a global private markets investment management firm, appointed long-time executives Erik Hirsch and Juan Delgado-Moreira as co-chief executive officers. They succeed Mario Giannini, who, after 22 years as Hamilton Lane’s CEO, has left. They joined Hartley Rogers – chairman of the board since 2005 – as executive co-chairmen.

Rockefeller Global Family Office, part of Rockefeller Capital Management, added North Carolina-based Decision Point Wealth Partners. The firm is led by private advisor and managing director Chad Pearson and senior vice presidents and private advisors Donis Smith and Paul Patterson. The six-person team also includes wealth manager Riley Stephenson; senior client relationship manager Jillian Dempsey; and client associate Courtenay Bickler. The group, which was previously at UBS, report to Kristen Sario, Southeast divisional director.

Foundation Source, a US-based provider of cloud-based SaaS foundation management services, appointed Joseph Mrak III as CEO. He took over from Sunil Garga, who led the company for the past two and a half years. Mrak is a former global head of wealth solutions at Refinitiv. During his stint at the firm – now owned by the London Stock Exchange Group – the organization pushed further into the wealth management space.

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JP Morgan Private Bank appointed a former Citi Private Bank trio of advisors. Based in Seattle, Washington, the joiners are Olive Goh, James Harding and Jorge Valcarcel. They report to Tim Howell, managing director and Seattle market manager at the private bank. 

AmeriServ Trust and Financial Services Company, promoted David Finui as president and CEO. Finui, whose banking and financial services experience spans more than 40 years, joined AmeriServ in 2016. He was mostly recently executive vice president, director of wealth capital management. 

Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, aka KKR & Co, appointed Kimberly A Ross to join its board of directors. Ross is the former chief financial officer of several public companies, including WeWork, Baker Hughes Company, Avon Products, and Royal Ahold.

Financial services firm Edward Jones welcomed financial advisor Andrew Furste, who has more than 15 years’ industry experience and is based in Albuquerque. Previously, Furste worked at Charles Schwab for nearly 14 years where he advised clients on a broad range of financial topics. Before joining the financial services industry, he served in the US military. 

Door, a firm working with wealth managers and other financial players to help them research funds and carry out due diligence work, appointed former Columbia Threadneedle Investments senior figure Joe Kringdon as head of North America. Kringdon was head of US distribution. Before this, he worked at Pioneer Investments, Putnam and Smith Barney in senior roles.

Pitcairn said Andrew L Busser, president at the family office, took the CEO role from Leslie Voth who continued as chairman of Pitcairn Trust Company. In December 2021, Voth told the board she wished to retire at the end of 2023. Before joining Pitcairn in 2015, Busser was a partner at Symphony Capital, a healthcare-focused investment manager of private equity and hedge funds.

Arta Finance, a digital family office and US registered investment advisor firm, appointed former GE Asset Management chief investment officer Tomas Arlia as CIO, head of alternative investments. 

Gresham Partners, a Chicago-headquartered wealth manager, promoted Allison Lurie to partner. She is director of operations and has worked at the firm for 14 years.

Arthur J Gallagher & Co, which provides insurance brokerage, risk management, and consulting services, named Steve Coco as its new global Human Resource & Compensation Consulting managing director. Coco is the chief revenue officer at Buck, where he is responsible for revenue growth including Buck sales, account management, marketing, client strategy, and technology, innovation and thought leadership.

Indefi, a strategy advisor for asset managers, appointed Jim McCaughan as US practice leader. He is the former chief executive of Principal Asset Management. 

Wealth.com, the estate planning platform, appointed Brian Hamburger as its second strategic advisor. Hamburger is the founder, president and chief executive officer of MarketCounsel, and has spent the past 20 years calling for solutions that address the challenges advisors face in a fast-growing and highly regulated industry. 

Raymond James
The firm welcomed a team of financial advisors and two branch professionals to the firm's employee advisor channel in Slidell, Louisiana. 

Operating as Meyer Rotolo Wealth Management of Raymond James, the team's advisors include John W Meyer, Kevin Rotolo, Don Gallaty II, David Jacob Indest, and Chad P Dusang. They previously worked at Merrill Lynch, where they managed over $500 million in client assets.

The business also brought in financial advisors Scott T Mulford and Melissa Minikes to the firm’s independent advisor channel. The financial advisors, who are based in Massapequa Park, New York, arrived from Wells Fargo Advisors where they managed over $170 million in client assets.

Raymond James also welcomed financial advisors Mary E Brammer and Rebecca Dickerson to its employee advisor channel in Fort Worth, Texas. 

The advisor duo, who operate as Brammer Dickerson Wealth Management of Raymond James, previously managed more than $205 million in client assets at Merrill Lynch. 

The firm also announced that it had brought in advisor Eric Hanson to its employee advisor channel, in Bethesda, Maryland. Hanson came from UBS Financial Services.