Who's Moving Where In Wealth Management? - RBC Wealth Management, Fieldpoint Private, Others

Editorial Staff

22 August 2018

Fieldpoint Private
Connecticut-based has hired Patton Wealth Management to Raymond James Financial Services (RJFS) – the firm’s independent broker/dealer – in Maumee, Ohio.

The wealth management firm consists of financial advisors David Patton, Miles O’Mailia and Theresa Cooper. They join from Merrill Lynch, where they previously managed $235 million in client assets and had $1.1 million in annual production.

Patton began his wealth management career more than 18 years ago at Edward Jones, after a career as a corporate executive. He later worked at Smith Barney and most recently, served as a senior vice president and senior financial advisor with Merrill Lynch for the past 10 years.

O’Mailia has nearly 40 years of experience in the wealth management industry, working at Prudential, Smith Barney and most recently Merrill Lynch. Throughout his career, he has worked with high net worth families, businesses and foundations. He also has experience with estate planning.

Cooper has over 10 years of experience in wealth management, most recently at Merrill Lynch working alongside Patton and O’Mailia.

Patton Wealth Management is not a registered broker/dealer, and is independent of Raymond James Financial Services.

Sun Life Investment Management
has appointed Tom Murphy as head of affiliate development and business strategy. In this new role, Murphy will be responsible for driving the global business strategy for Sun Life Investment Management's third-party institutional business.

He has over 25 years of global investment experience that includes building Mercer's European Outsourced Chief Investment Officer (OCIO) business, and most recently overseeing its US wealth business.

Based in Sun Life Investment Management's Wellesley, Massachusetts office, he will join the team on September 4. Murphy will report to Steve Peacher, president, and he will be a member of the Sun Life Investment Management senior leadership team.

Oppenheimer & Co
US wealth manager has appointed Hugh Williams as branch manager of Oppenheimer's Greensboro office. This is the third branch manager appointment for the firm, following Bill Pomeroy in Asheville and Nelson Kelly in Winston-Salem.

Williams has more than three and a half decades of experience. He has been a senior member of the Williams Monforton Watson Group of Oppenheimer & Co. Prior to Oppenheimer, Williams held positions at EF Hutton, Interstate Johnson Lane and Morgan Keegan. Before financial services, he served in the 422nd Civil Affairs Unit of the US Army Reserve.