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RBC Still on Wealth Management Hiring Trail - Report

Nick Parmee

27 February 2009

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.