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Daily News Analysis
Argent Financial Group Appoints Business Development Officer
19 June 2013
Ruston, LA-based Argent Financial Group and its newly-created subsidiary, Argent Trust, have named Meredith Strutt Mighty as business development officer, responsible for client development and relationship management for individual and institutional clients. Mighty joins from APG, a small family office services company which she co-founded in 2006 . She started her career in 2002 as a research associate and client service representative at Legg Mason Capital Management.
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Raymond James Recruits Independent Advisor Team From Morgan Stanley
19 June 2013
Raymond James Financial Services, an independent broker/dealer subsidiary of Raymond James, has recruited a new team in the shape of Illinois-based Dashboard Wealth Advisors. The team joins from Morgan Stanley, where they managed over $240 million in client assets and had annual fees and commissions of $1 . 9 million.
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Northern Trust Promotes Wealth Management Sales Director
19 June 2013
Northern Trust has promoted David Williams to the role of sales director for wealth management. Williams, with more than 27 years’ experience in the financial services industry, has spent 15 years at Northern Trust . Before joining Northern Trust, he held a variety of wealth management and commercial banking positions at First Midwest Bank, Firstar Bank and Lake Shore Bank.
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BMO Private Bank Hires Two Managing Directors In Illinois
19 June 2013
BMO Private Bank has appointed Dan Barron as managing director in Rockford, IL, and Kathy Weber as managing director in Chicago, IL. Weber, with more than 30 years' experience in financial services, has been managing BMO Private Bank's team of wealth management professionals in Rockford for over a decade (three years with BMO, seven years prior to that with AMCORE Bank) . Weber led the private banking operations for all of AMCORE Bank.
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Janney Makes Senior Hires At New Office In Maryland, Adds Senior VP In Florida
19 June 2013
Philadelphia, PA-based Janney Montgomery Scott has added industry veterans Alfred DeRenzis and Scott Ford to its new Westminster, MD, office as senior vice president of wealth management and first vice president of wealth management, respectively. DeRenzis and Ford, who collectively oversee approximately $159 million in client assets, will be joined by registered private client assistant, Karen Seipp, to form the DeRenzis Ford Group . “With more than 50 years of combined industry experience, DeRenzis and Ford will be a catalyst to continued strategic expansion local.
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Features
Gresham Hires Head To Lead Growth; Targets "Top One-Tenth Of The 1 Per Cent"
7 May 2012
As liquidity and wealth creation has slowed down, Gresham Partners wanted to tackle the issue of sustainable growth for the next five to ten years.
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Heavy Hitters Huddle In New York For Tiburon CEO Summit
18 April 2012
How will the financial services industry divvy up the $28.6 trillion Americans currently have in investable assets? If you are a heavy hitter in the wealth management business, you were probably at the latest Tiburon CEO Summit at the Ritz-Carlton at Battery Park in New York City to find out.
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North America Executive Moves Round-Up December 2011
4 January 2012
A round-up of the key moves in the North American wealth management industry for December 2011.
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North America Executive Moves: October 2011
7 November 2011
Here, the significant moves in the North American wealth management market for October are summarized.
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Executive Moves: Americas April 2011
9 May 2011
A round-up of the North American industry moves for April 2011.
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News and Features
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Comment and Analysis
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Regulation Puts Squeeze On Global Wealth Industry - RBC/Capgemini
The rising level of financial sector regulation means that fewer firms will be able to offer the full suite of wealth management products, according to the RBC/Capgemini World Wealth Report.
Tom Burroughes
19 June 2013
Guest Opinion: An Earnings Report Every Hedge Fund Manager Should Review
Here Diane Harrison, principal and owner of Panegyric Marketing, argues that the debate over fees in the hedge fund industry often focuses on the wrong topics.
Diane Harrison
20 March 2013
Q&A: Rockefeller & Co's Jimmy Chang On The Investment Environment
Here, Jimmy Chang, a senior portfolio manager and a managing director of Rockefeller & Co, discusses some issues around investing in the current environment.
Harriet Davies
4 April 2013
INTERVIEW: Regular Risk Reviews Gain Traction In The Family Office World
The period between 2008 and 2012 saw an uptick in risk reviewing business at New York’s Rothstein Kass Family Offices Group, says partner Evan Jehle.
Harriet Davies
9 April 2013
FEATURE: Twins And The Business Of Family
Building functionality into a family’s business affairs involves defining each person’s role but it’s never easy to think differently about family members who were children at the dinner table, but are now adults around the board table.
Charles Lowenhaupt
8 April 2013
Guest Opinion: Diversification In The Age Of Globalisation
Marc Odo, director of research at software and business intelligence firm Informa Investment Solutions, discusses why diversification failed during the credit crisis.
Marc Odo
25 March 2013
