UK-headquartered Goal
Group appointed David Gilbert as global business development manager, based at
Goal Group’s London
office. In his new
role, Gilbert reports to Noah Wortman, director of global business development,
based in Philadelphia.

Baring Asset Management, appointed James Ross to the newly
created role of director of investment process. Ross is
based in London
and reports to Marino Valensise, chief investment officer.

Barclays Corporate & Employer Solutions appointed
Jonathan Parker to lead the development of its investment proposition,
reporting to Katharine Photiou, head of workplace savings. Based in London, Parker is
responsible for investment strategy and developing the firm's workplace pension
investment proposition. 

Kleinwort Benson appointed Joakim Gasslander as senior
private banker in its private wealth management team, based in London. Gasslander
previously served as a senior private banker at Lloyds Private Banking, where
he was responsible for multi-jurisdictional families and ultra high net worth
individuals.

Helen
Park-Weir, formerly a brand manager at Investec Private Bank, joined EFG
Private Bank. She is based
in London and responsible for heading the
marketing team in the UK.

Swiss-based wealth management house B Capital appointed Bob Atkinson as a
partner with principal responsibility for lending solutions, based in the
firm’s London
office.

Thesis Asset Management appointed Tom Low as an investment
manager, based in the firm’s Lymington office. Low joined Thesis from Barnett Waddingham Investments and
reports to director of institutional sales Giles Marriage.

Hargreave Hale appointed Jean Roche as a fund manager,
based at the firm’s London
office. Roche joined
from Panmure Gordon, where she served as a senior equity analyst specialising
in the retail sector. 

Baring Asset
Management appointed Peter Curry as assistant director for international
institutional sales, based in London. Curry joined
Baring from Nomura Asset Management, where he served as business development
director. He reports
to Andrew Benton, head of international sales and business development, and is responsible
for strategic partnerships and initiatives focusing on new client acquisition.

Kleinwort Benson appointed Gemma Woodward as head of
charities, a newly-created role, reporting to Stephen Rothwell, head
of private wealth management. Woodward joined
from Newton Investment Management, where she was lead manager of Newton's Socially
Responsible Investment Fund for Charities and responsible for charity investment mandates.

Future Capital Partners appointed Ian Pugh to the position
of business development manager in its sales team. Pugh joined Future Capital Partners from Ingenious Media,
where he was an investment director, responsible for managing relationships
with over 40 private banks, wealth managers, accountants and financial
advisors.

M&G Investments appointed Daniel White as the manager
of its M&G North American Value Fund, based in London. White is
supported by deputy manager Richard Halle, who currently manages the M&G
European Strategic Value Fund.

Brewin Dolphin appointed Steve Nicholas as the new head of
office for its Hereford branch. In his new
role, Nicholas manages investment portfolios for individuals, charities,
trusts, and pension funds.

Brooks Macdonald Asset Management, appointed Lisa Brown as
an intermediary sales manager, based in London. She is responsible
for increasing the support that the firm provides to professional advisors in London.

RBC Wealth Management 
appointed Sarah Hunter and Victoria Riding as directors in the London-based
credit team. Before
joining the firm, Hunter was the in-house legal counsel at HMV Group. Riding joined
from Bank of America Merrill Lynch, where she was director, international
credit and banking in charge of credit structuring for Continental Europe.

Barclays
Wealth and Investment Management appointed David McKenzie as a managing
director to its UK private
banking team, based in London. He joined
from Deutsche Private Wealth Management, where he was managing director of
private wealth management.

The group
finance director of Barclays, Chris Lucas, stepped down from the role on 16
August ahead of his previously announced date due to reasons of ill health. Lucas was
appointed to the role in April 2007 and joined Barclays from
PricewaterhouseCoopers, where he was UK head of financial services and
global head of banking and capital markets.

Schroders expanded its UK strategic solutions team with
the appointment of Rosalind Mann. Mann joined
from Towers Watson, where she was an investment consultant for the past five
years. She is
working with clients on the design and implementation of the recently launched
fund protection solution Flight Path Swift.

Baring Asset Management appointed Ed Moisson as business development
analyst, based in London. Moisson
joined Baring from Lipper where he held a number of senior research roles. He reports to
David Stevenson, head of product and business development, and in his new role
he is responsible for working with the sales teams to identify trends and
opportunities in the market, along with providing general market analysis and
insight on the mutual fund and institutional business.

Aviva Investors appointed Sunita Kara as portfolio manager
to its European high yield team. Kara is
based in London
and reports to Todd Youngberg, head of high yield investments. She joined
from Baring Asset Management, where she was global high yield portfolio
manager. 

Neuberger Berman appointed Jon Jonsson as managing director
and senior portfolio manager for global fixed income strategies, based in London. Jonsson joined from JP Morgan Asset Management, where he
served for 15 years, most recently as head of global aggregate strategies.

Cordea
Savills appointed Giuseppe Oriani as managing director of its Italian
subsidiary, based in Milan. In his new
role, Oriani is responsible for the development of new business initiatives in Italy and investor
relationships for existing Italian funds.

Deutsche
Asset & Wealth Management appointed Jonathan Kent as head of financial
intermediaries distribution for the UK
and Ireland, reporting to
David Morrow, the head of UK
distribution and global client group. Based in London, Kent
is responsible for distribution to all key financial intermediary accounts with
a UK
and Irish presence as well as private banks, wealth managers, discretionary
managers, asset managers and multi-managers. He joined
from Deutsche Bank’s institutional client group in the corporate banking and
securities division, where he was responsible for the sale of investment
products, funds and derivative-based structures.

Franklin Templeton Investments appointed Toby Hayes as vice
president and portfolio manager for its Franklin Templeton multi-asset strategies
group. In his previous
role, Hayes was multi-asset portfolio manager for Pacific Real Estate Capital
Partners, where he was responsible for developing alternative strategies across
real asset classes.

Butterfield Private Bank appointed James Mcneill and
Nicholas Rilley to the newly-created role of investment managers in its
London-based asset management team. McNeill
joined Butterfield from Vintage Asset Management and Rilley from Prospect
Wealth Management. In their new roles McNeill and Rilley are responsible for
providing fund analysis to the wider Butterfield group, while working with
clients to review and monitor their portfolios.

iShares appointed Tom Fekete as head of product development
in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Fekete is
based in London,
reporting to Joe Linhares, head of iShares EMEA. In his new role, he is
responsible for driving the expansion of products in the EMEA region. Fekete joined
from Barclays Wealth, where he was EMEA head of investment products and global
head of foreign exchange advisory. Before this, he headed the structured
solutions team at UBS and the products and services distribution arm of the
Swiss bank.

JP Morgan
Asset Management appointed Nicholas Roberts as portfolio manager for JPM Fusion
Funds, a whole-of-market, fund-of-funds range. He reports to Tony Lanning, lead
fund manager for Fusion. Roberts is
responsible for assisting Lanning in portfolio management and is based in London in his new role.

Switzerland

Zurich-listed EFG International announced that Ludovic
Chechin-Laurans stepped down as a member of its executive committee and as the
head of private banking for Switzerland.

Chechin-Laurans stepped down for personal reasons and is
returning to the Bahamas where he will pursue a new business venture, in which
capacity he will continue to collaborate with EFG International.

Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management, which has made a
number of recent senior hires, announced that former senior Credit Suisse
executive Felipe Godard will join the firm as a managing director and head of
wealth management, Latin America, effective 1 October.

Godard will be based in Geneva and report to Haig Ariyan and
Chip Packard, co-heads of wealth management, Americas, and into the executive
management board of the Swiss banking entity, chaired by Marco Bizzozero, CEO,
Deutsche Bank Switzerland, and head of wealth management for Europe, the Middle
East and Africa.

EFG Bank, the Swiss principal subsidiary of EFG
International, appointed Stephan Keiser to the position of head of private
banking, Zurich, with effect from January 2014.

Keiser will report to John Williamson, Group chief
executive, in the latter’s capacity as CEO, EFG Bank.

He joins from Bank Vontobel, where he was head of private
banking international from 2006, with market responsibility for Latin America,
Asia-Pacific, the Middle East and Italy. Prior to this, he was team leader,
private banking Asia-Pacific. Between 1998 and 2003, he worked at Julius Baer,
with a number of international postings including to Asia, and his early career
was spent at Bank Falck & Co and UBS.

HSBC Private Bank (Suisse) hired Oliver Maas and Julien
Froidevaux as managing directors, to support the firm’s strategy to focus its
external asset management business on multi-family offices.

Maas, who joined HSBC as market head MFO business
development, previously served at Credit Suisse for eight years, creating
solutions for ultra high net worth clients and their advisors. Most recently,
he was responsible for the MFO segment in the global external asset managers
department of Credit Suisse, before which he spent six years with Julius Baer.

Froidevaux joined HSBC as market head MFO business
development from UBS, where he headed the multi-family office business in
Romandie. After starting his career in the consulting business with Andersen,
Froidevaux spent ten years with Lombard Odier & Cie, and more recently the
Bank of China (Switzerland). At the latter, he focused on financial
intermediaries for the past eight years.

Both men report to Roger Lehmann, Swiss market head and
responsible for the external asset management business. Maas will focus on
German-speaking Switzerland and Froidevaux on Romandie.

Europe

Bank J Safra Sarasin (Deutschland), the Swiss private bank
owned by Brazil-headquartered Safra Group, will open a new office in Stuttgart
on 1 October this year as part of a reorganisation of its German activities.

Heading the new office is Artur Montanhas, who has worked
for the bank since 2009, according to a statement from the firm. He will also
be regional manager for Baden-Württemberg, while Werner Schwenk becomes deputy
manager for Stuttgart.

As a result of the new office, the activities of the
Nuremberg office will be transferred to the Stuttgart and Munich offices,
effective 30 September.

Investec Asset Management, part of UK and South
Africa-listed Investec, recruited Frans van Leeuwen as European client and
business director.

Van Leeuwen joined Investec from Insight Investment where he
served as a client director. Before this, he held similar positions at
Threadneedle, Credit Agricole Asset Management and Merrill Lynch Investment
Management.

The former head of multi-asset-class investing at Vontobel,
Livio Dalle, joined Kairos Julius Baer as senior portfolio manager.

He serves as co-manager of network funds with a focus on
customised management products, having began his career in 1997 with Banca
Popolare di Novara as an equity manager, before moving on to Caboto SIM, where
he handled sales and proprietary trading for institutional investors. Dalle
then worked for Mediobanca as an analyst in the Financial Institutions Group
and in 2001, he joined UBS Italia as Head of equity. In 2008, he was named head
of special mandates for Banca Leonardo. 

Stockholm-based Swedbank, one of Scandinavia’s largest
banking groups, made Anders Karlsson it chief risk officer.

Karlsson succeeded Håkan Berg who has since taken on a new
role in recovery and resolution. Meanwhile, Berg continues as chairman for
Swedbank’s operations in Russia.

Prior to the appointment, Karlsson was head of risk at
Swedbank Treasury and at other such institutions.

The government of Gibraltar appointed two senior executives
in newly-created roles to help develop the Rock's financial services sector.

Victor Galliano is based at Gibraltar House in London and
will be responsible for promotion of Gibraltar in the UK financial services
industry, while Philip Canessa is based in Gibraltar, working on the promotion
of funds and investment services.

Canessa has 30 years’ experience in the financial services
sector in Gibraltar, London and the Channel Islands. He also held a number of
senior positions within the funds industry in Gibraltar, including membership
of the Finance Centre council and chairmanship of the Gibraltar association of
stockbrokers and investment managers.

Galliano has 25 years' experience in financial services and
has worked in London for NatWest, Barings, BBVA/LatInvest and most recently
HSBC in New York. They report to Finance Centre director James Tipping.

Asia-Pacific

North America

Nashville, TN-based Avenue Bank hired Jennifer Shepard as a
vice president and private client banker, while it brought in Stuart Hunter to
support the new medical and professional private banking unit. Shepard has more
than 20 years of banking experience working at Regions Bank. Hunter, meanwhile,
joined as a banking assistant from SunTrust, where he has served in a similar
role since 2007. 

Calamos Investments, announced the departure of James Boyne,
president and chief operating officer, effective September 30.

Greenwich, CT-headquartered investment advisory firm, Cedar
Ridge Partners, made three hires within its investment management team. Pascal
Roduit joined as director of risk management and he will also be member of the
investment committee. He was previously at New York-based fund-of-hedge-funds
manager Rock Maple Funds, where he was the chief risk officer and the director
of quantitative research. Daniel Keating and Stett Trippe also worked at Rock
Maple Funds and joined the portfolio management team and the investment
committee.

Chicago, IL-headquartered Ziegler, an investment bank and
full-service brokerage firm, appointed Justin Frys as a senior vice president
and branch manager of Ziegler’s Minnetonka,
MN, office. Frys, with more than
15 years of advisory experience, has worked in the areas of asset management,
retirement preparation, investment planning and insurance planning, having held
positions at several Wall Street and boutique investment firms. 

Brokerage firm Stifel, Nicolaus & Co added financial
advisor Stephen Knudson as a first vice president of investments within the its
Billings, MT,
private client group.

Knudson spent the last 20 years at Morgan Stanley Smith
Barney (now Morgan Stanley Wealth Management), where he served clients who had
$112 million in assets.

The firm also made two hires in Ohio
and Pennsylvania
from Robert W Baird and Janney Montgomery Scott. In Conshohocken,
PA, Mark Kaskey, W Jason Beard and Robert
Cellucci joined the private client group from Janney, while Joshua Weiland
joined the Dayton, OH, office from Baird.

New York-listed Heartland Financial USA named Bryan McKeag
as its new chief financial officer following the departure of John Schmidt in
July. Schmidt left the firm to become CFO at another company outside of the
financial services industry.

McKeag starts his new role on September 23, 2013, reporting
to Lynn Fuller, Heartland’s chairman, president and chief executive. He will
have oversight of all corporate finance, accounting and investment operations
of the company.

McKeag most recently served as executive vice president –
corporate controller and principal accounting officer for Associated Banc-Corp.

Corning, NY-based Market Street Trust Company, the
multi-family office, appointed Christian Girts as director of client service,
reporting to Beth Landin, vice president of client and strategic relationships.
Girts manages high net worth client relationships for both individual and trust
accounts. He works with individual and family group clients on financial and
estate planning and advise clients on fiduciary issues. Prior to joining Market Street,
Girts was a financial advisor with Wells Fargo Advisors in Scranton, PA.

RBC Wealth Management added Brian Post, senior financial
associate, to the Eagle, ID, office, where he joined the King Miller Barrios
& Boe Investment Group.

Post is responsible for trading and the management of client
portfolios, in addition to being a member of the investment committee. Prior to
joining RBC Wealth Management, he was a senior research analyst at Roth Capital
Partners in Newport Beach, CA, where he developed and led the firm’s
small-cap mining and resources research practice.

San Francisco, CA-headquartered Union Bank hired Melissa
Gough as a regional director of its private bank unit. Gough will manage
private banking activities across the Central
Coast, working with wealth management
teams in Montecito and in Santa Barbara, Monterey and Ventura
counties. Gough is based in Santa Barbara and
reports to senior vice president and Central
Coast regional managing
director Leo Hamill.

GoldenTree Asset Management appointed Brian Marshall as
managing director in the firm’s business development group, based at
GoldenTree’s New York
headquarters. Prior to joining GoldenTree, Marshall was a managing director in
structured credit products at Barclays Capital, a position he held since 2008.

Philadelphia-headquartered Lincoln Financial Group appointed
two investment management executives to fill newly-created positions. Andrew Yorks
joined as senior vice president, serving as the head of markets and investment
strategy, while Scott Pelkola joined as senior vice president and head of fixed
income. Both report directly to Ellen Cooper, executive vice president and
chief investment officer of the investment management group.

Nashville, TN-based wealth management firm Truxton Trust
appointed John Diffendal as vice president and portfolio manager to its wealth
management team.

Before joining Truxton, Diffendal was a managing partner and
senior securities analyst with BB&T Capital Markets. Prior to this, he was
a partner with JC Bradford & Company in Nashville, where he served as director of
research.

BBVA Compass named William Helms, who previously led the
firm’s wealth management business, as vice chairman of the board of directors.
Helms previously oversaw BBVA Compass’ private banking, asset management,
international wealth management, broker-dealer activities and registered
investment advisors. Jeff Talpas, a member of the bank's management committee
who has overseen the retail line of business, leads the newly-combined wealth
and retail banking group.

Lewiston, NY-headquartered Princeton Equity Partners, the
independent financial services firm, launched an office in Austin, TX.
The firm provides financial services including tax-aware investment strategies,
investment management, retirement planning strategies and wealth management.

The Denver,
CO-based Financial Planning Association appointed Edward Gjertsen as its 2014
president-elect for a one-year term. Gjertsen’s term as president-elect begins
on January 1, 2014, succeeding incoming FPA 2014 president Janet Stanzak.

CliftonLarsonAllen Wealth Advisors, a wholly-owned
subsidiary of CliftonLarsonAllen, named George Hostal as a senior wealth
advisor in Phoenix, AZ.

Hostal has nearly 20 years of experience in the financial
services industry and specializes in investments. He began his career at Bank
One Trust Company.

New York City-headquartered Cohen & Steers hired Vince
Childers to lead the firm’s real assets investment strategies. This was a newly
created role. Childers joined from AllianceBernstein, where he co-managed $2.3
billion in real assets investment strategies, including the AllianceBernstein
Real Asset Strategy Fund.

A former New Jersey-based Morgan Stanley Wealth Management
advisor team – The Rasweiler Group - joined UBS in Florham Park, NJ.
The group has $4.8 billion in assets under management and a T-12 production of
$10 million. Members include: John Rasweiler, John Cusate, Jack Riley, Micheal
Jordao, Jesse Kent and William Burke.

Florida-headquartered FineMark National Bank & Trust
added private bankers Christina Lunsford, Terri Caple and Patrick Kellard to
its Naples
office, according to local media. Lunsford joined FineMark as a relationship
banker, having previously worked as a vice president at Gibraltar Private Bank
& Trust. She has also been a private banking officer for Northern Trust
Bank of Florida,
as well as at SunTrust Bank. Caple also joined as a relationship banker. Prior
to joining FineMark, Caple was a private banking manager and senior vice
president at M&I Bank.

The Private Client Reserve of US Bank appointed Scott
Fitzgerald as wealth management advisor in New York, among several other hires. Fitzgerald,
with more than 11 years’ financial experience, joined the PCR from HSBC, where
he served as a senior relationship manager. He previously held the role of
relationship manager at City National Bank, and personal banker - managing
affluent client relationships - at JPMorgan Chase.

The firm also hired Ruth Granen as a vice president and
personal trust relationship manager in Seattle, WA, while Tina Cain was appointed vice president and
trust officer in St Paul, MN,
and Christopher Kurimay joined as a wealth management advisor in Chicago, IL.
Earlier in the month it appointed Amy Kane as a senior family wealth advisor in
Denver, CO,
while naming Christopher Turoci as a wealth management advisor in Los Angeles, CA.

BBVA Compass, the Sunbelt-based subsidiary of Spain’s BBVA, hired Mark Chiappara as a senior
private banker in its US
private wealth management unit.

In his new role, Chiappara will serve ultra high net worth
clients and select private institutions in the US. Prior to joining the firm, Chiappara
held senior positions at Deutsche Bank, Bank of America, Lehman Brothers and
Goldman Sachs.

Dallas, TX-based Tolleson Wealth Management, which serves
ultra high net worth families, promoted Philip Durst to chief investment
officer. Prior to joining Tolleson, Durst served within the investment
management divisions of both INVESCO and John McStay Investment Counsel in Dallas.

The Texas- and Massachusetts-headquartered wealth management
solutions company, Placemark Investments, added two new vice presidents to its
investment advisory solutions team. Scott Smith and Michelle Barbiere joined
the company's development team in furthering the firm’s unified managed account
platforms for independent advisors. They will be based in Chicago, IL,
and Evergreen, CO, respectively. Smith has 15 years of experience in financial
services, having previously served as vice president of sales at Fidelity
Institutional Wealth Services, and as relationship manager at Schwab Advisor
Services in New York City.
Barbiere has 21 years of experience working with RIAs and fund managers,
including positions as vice president of business strategy at Merrill Lynch and
relationship manager at Schwab Advisor Services.

Scottsdale, AZ-headquartered Gentry Wealth Management hired
two wealth advisors, Dave Humphrey and Taiya Thompson, in Las Vegas, NV.
Humphrey, with nearly 20 years’ experience working with high net worth
families, specializes in retirement planning, wealth preservation, and estate
planning. Prior to joining Gentry Wealth Management, Humphrey spent 18 years
with Fidelity Investments. During his tenure with Fidelity he worked in Utah, RI, New Hampshire,
and Nevada.

Thompson has more than 16 years’ experience in financial
services and previously worked within Fidelity’s private client group - as vice
president and senior account executive.

Calamos Investments appointed two co-portfolio managers,
Jeremy Hughes, and Chris Langs, to its investment team. Hughes and Langs worked
together at Aviva Investors overseeing high-yield assets and join Calamos with
more than 40 years of combined investment experience.

The Securities and Exchange Commission named Eun Ah Choi as
managing executive of the Division of Investment Management. Choi serves as the
division’s point person on a range of business, operational and administrative
functions. 

She joins from Washington, DC-based law firm Hogan Lovells.

New York-headquartered Fiduciary Trust Company International
promoted Carin Leong Pai to executive vice president and director of equity
management, while also making two senior hires. Pai has been with the firm
since 1996 and now oversees its team of equity portfolio managers while
managing client portfolios. Amy Kong joined the firm as managing director and
senior portfolio manager of equity management, responsible for managing equity
portfolios for individuals, families and institutions.

Kong was previously a senior portfolio manager at US Trust.

Birmingham, AL-based Sterne, Agee & Leach, a
privately-owned investment banking and brokerage firm, established a
four-strong emerging markets group, based in New York. Mario Rappoport, Harry Wool, Mike
Santiago and David Cortes have over 40 years of combined experience in sales
and trading of emerging market fixed income products.  

Rappoport, managing director of trading, previously worked
at Bear Stearns and Jefferies, responsible for trading and selling EM
products
– primarily in Latin America and Eastern Europe.
Wool, also managing director of trading, launched the EM debt group at
Miller
Tabak. There, he focused on Latin America, Eastern Europe, the Middle
East, African and Asian markets. Santiago, senior vice president of
sales,
started the EM group at Jefferies. He previously held senior EM sales
roles at
Wachovia Securities, Prudential Securities and Lehman Brothers. Cortes,
senior
vice president of sales, worked at various Brazilian institutions such
as Banco
BTG Pactual and Banco Itau, trading and selling Brazilian EM debt to
institutional clients.

Raymond James made David Patchen, a regional director for
the firm’s independent broker/dealer, Raymond James Financial Services, senior
vice president of education and practice management within the private client
group, with effect from September 1. Prior to his regional management role,
Patchen was a financial advisor and recruiter for RJFS.

BMO Private Bank hired Julianne Getty as a senior private
banker in Chicago, IL. Getty, who has worked in Chicago her entire
career, focuses on business development and the relationship management
of high
net worth clients. She is based in downtown Chicago and joins a team of
over 30 BMO
Private Bank professionals serving the Greater Chicago Area. BMO Private
Bank
also appointed Michael Mihm as vice president and senior financial
planner in Wisconsin. Based in Milwaukee, Mihm will serve clients
throughout southeast Wisconsin. 

Virginia-based Cardinal Bank promoted William Mundy as
senior vice president and executive managing director of Cardinal Wealth
Services. Mundy joined Cardinal in 2010 as managing director of CWS.

Evercore Wealth Management, a subsidiary of Evercore,
appointed Jewelle Bickford as partner and wealth advisor. Bickford based at the
firm's headquarters in New York
and report to Jeff Maurer, chief executive of Evercore. She joined from
GenSpring Family Offices, where she served as a senior strategist.

Janney Montgomery Scott, the Philadelphia, PA-headquartered
wealth management and investment banking firm, appointed Peter Price as senior
vice president/complex manager of the firm’s Maine
and New Hampshire
complex. Price, with nearly 30 years of financial services experience, began
his career in 1984 as a managing director at Livada Securities.

Market Street Advisors, a technology and services firm which
targets the investment management industry, recruited Emil Polito as chairman
of its advisory board.

Polito was formerly a senior managing director and partner
at American Independence Financial Services, where he was head of the firm’s
private wealth management division.

Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management, made a number of
senior hires in recent weeks, announced that former senior Credit Suisse
executive Felipe Godard will join as a managing director and head of wealth
management, Latin America, effective October
1. Godard will be based in Geneva and report to
Haig Ariyan and Chip Packard, co-heads of wealth management, Americas, and into the executive management
board of the Swiss banking entity, chaired by Marco Bizzozero, CEO, Deutsche
Bank Switzerland, and head
of wealth management for Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
At Credit Suisse, Godard was head of advisory, solutions and investments for
the Latin American Private Bank.

New York-listed Envestnet, a provider of wealth management
technology and services to financial advisors, added Cynthia Egan to its board
of directors.

Egan most recently served as president of retirement plan
services at T Rowe Price, having retired in December last year. At T Rowe, Egan
was also a member of the Operational Steering Committee; a board member of the
T Rowe Price Trust Company; and chair of the T Rowe Price Women’s Roundtable.
Egan previously spent 18 years at Fidelity Investments.

BMO Private Bank, part of BMO Financial Group, appointed
Michael Mihm as vice president and senior financial planner in
Wisconsin. Based in Milwaukee, Mihm serves clients throughout southeast
Wisconsin. In other
recent hires at the firm, earlier in the year BMO Private Bank added
Bill
Sperling, Patricia Bostrom and Bill McAleer to its local advisory board
in Seattle, WA.

Baird hired four veteran financial advisors within its
private wealth management group in Chicago, IL, Baltimore, MD, and Edina,
MN, with combined assets under
management of $330 million. In Chicago,
the Andersen Group has $165 million in AuM and is comprised of Richard
Andersen, senior vice president, and Eric Andersen, vice president. Dan
Phillips, senior vice president, joins Baird in Edina with $105 million in AuM, while further
East in Baltimore John Huynh, vice president, joined with $60 million. The
Andersen Group and Phillips are latterly of UBS Financial Services; Huynh is
formerly of Morgan Stanley Smith Barney (now Morgan Stanley Wealth
Management). 

Focus Financial Partners added Grand Rapids, MI-based
investment advisor, LaFleur & Godfrey, to its roster of wealth management
firms. LaFleur & Godfrey has around $400 million in client assets.

Mercer Island, WA-based wealth management firm Paracle
Advisors hired Cherish Sutull as a financial advisor. Cherish has around 15
years of experience in the financial services industry and most recently served
as an investment advisor at Harris myCFO, providing investment strategy and
advice to ultra high net worth families.

Bank of America Merrill Lynch recruited a new advisory team
from Wells Fargo in the shape of Paul Akre and Laurie Tebon. Akre, who joined
Wells Fargo in 2003, previously worked at Morgan Stanley for three years and
before that at Merrill Lynch for nearly two decades.

In a move to expand the firm’s East coast presence, TD Wealth
Private Client Group, the wealth management unit of TD Bank, made three senior
appointments to its' private banking offices. Steven C. Truitt and Sherry A.
Varrelman were hired as senior vice president and regional wealth leader for
the Metro DC region and for the Pennsylvania,
Southern New Jersey and Central New Jersey Region respectively, while Michael
Iacobucci was promoted to senior vice president and regional wealth leader for Northern New England.

Truitt has 30 years of banking experience. Prior to joining
TD Wealth, he served as senior vice president and managing director at SunTrust
Private Wealth Management, where he led the Northern Virginia/ Washington, D.C.,
regional wealth services team.

Varrelman has served in the Wealth Management Group of BNY
Mellon as managing director and market president for New Jersey, having previously worked in a
similar role at Wachovia. Iacobucci has been promoted from his position as a
relationship manager for TD Wealth in the Boston
market, having previously worked at SunTrust Private Client Services and
Wachovia Wealth Management.

Wedbush Bank, the Los Angeles, CA-based private bank, named
V Charles Jackson as chairman and chief executive, responsible for developing
new product lines and identifying growth opportunities. Jackson replaced Scott Racusin as CEO and
fills an empty position as chairman. Jackson
previously served as the West Coast CEO of Boston Private Bank & Trust
Company and was an executive director for The Mellon Financial Group – West
Coast.

Clearbrook Global Advisors, a privately-held, independent
investment management firm, appointed two senior industry professionals,
Michael Mahoney and Thomasin Bentley, as the firm continues to expand its
business development and marketing team. Mahoney, with more than 30 years’
experience in investment and advisory roles for institutions, pensions,
non-profit, foundations and endowments, joined the firm as managing director of
business development. Prior to joining Clearbrook, Mahoney was a senior vice president
at Pyramis Global Advisors, responsible for business development and client
service for Taft-Hartley clients.

Ascent Private Capital Management, US Bank’s ultra high net
worth business which caters to clients with at least $50 million in investable assets,
made three senior hires in San Francisco, CA. Tom Crotty was named managing
director of financial administration. Crotty was previously president of
Montgomery Professionals, a San Francisco Bay Area accounting and staffing
firm. Stephen Florance was appointed as managing director, investment
consulting – a role in which he will help clients create investment portfolios.
Florance was a managing director at Hall Capital Partners, responsible for
managing portfolios and conducting research across all asset classes.
Previously, he worked at BancAmerica Robertson Stephens as a hedge fund
accountant. Lastly, Sisi Tran joined as managing director of wealth strategy,
charged with advising families on wealth planning matters such as trust and
estate planning, tax planning, multi-generational planning, family governance
and risk management. 

Tran is latterly of Convergent Wealth Advisors, where she
was a director of trust and estate planning in Los Angeles, CA.

Guggenheim Securities, the investment banking unit of New York and Chicago-headquartered Guggenheim Partners,
hired veteran insurance analyst Bijan Moazami as a managing director in its Washington, D.C.
office. In his new role, Moazami works on the property-casualty insurance
sector as part of the firm’s equity research team. Moazami joined Guggenheim
from Height Securities in Washington,
where he founded the firm’s investment banking practice.

The Hedge Fund Association 
appointed wealth consultant Hannah Shaw Grove to its high net worth
advisory board. Grove is a founder and executive editor of Private Wealth and
the author of 10 books on topics including family offices, hedge funds and
wealth management.

Westport Resources of Westport, Conn., hired Eugene Miller
as director of family office services, a new role that serves
ultra-high-net-worth individuals and families.

Miller joined from Citi Private Bank, where he was director
and ultra-high-net-worth private banker.

Michael Hines joined Concord Wealth Management, the Boston agency of the Penn
Mutual Life Insurance Company, as a financial advisor, according to Financial
Advisor. Hines will provide financial planning and advice to individuals,
families and small business owners. He also will support the agency’s
recruiting efforts in Massachusetts, Maine and Rhode
Island.

Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management announced that
Richard Glass has joined as US head of small and mid-cap value equities. In
addition, Richard Hanlon and Mary Schafer have joined the firm, reporting to
Glass. Glass, Hanlon and Schafer are based in New York. Glass reports to Owen Fitzpatrick,
head of equities for the Americas.

Citi Private Bank appointed Blair Ege at its Washington, DC
office as director and ultra high net worth private banker. She reports to
Barbara McCollum, Mid-Atlantic regional market manager. Ege previously worked
at BNY Mellon in Washington,
DC, where she spent seven years
as a senior director. Prior to BNY Mellon, Ege was a managing director at
Babson Capital Management.

Former Morgan Stanley Smith Barney advisor Elaina Spilove,
who with colleagues had overseen client assets totalling $2.5 billion, joined
UBS, according to media reports. Spilove is based in Princeton, NJ.
Spilove had worked at the Graystone Consulting business of Morgan Stanley. She
had annual revenue production of $1.2 million at Graystone, a Morgan Stanley
division. She joined the UBS Institutional Consulting Group with the title of
senior institutional consultant.

Morgan Stanley elected Rayford Wilkins to its board of
directors. Prior to joining Morgan Stanley, Wilkins served as chief executive
of diversified businesses at AT&T, a position from which he retired in
March last year. Before that, Wilkins held a number of senior roles at AT&T
and its predecessor company, including group president and CEO of SBC Pacific
Bell, and president and CEO of Southwestern Bell Telephone, among others.

Janney Montgomery Scott, the Philadelphia, Pa-headquartered
wealth management and investment banking firm, appointed former Morgan Stanley
senior manager Vincent Crognale to its Greenville,
Del., branch office as first vice
president/Wealth Management. Crognale is joined by private client assistant
Deborah Carlton. At Morgan Stanley, Crognale worked for 13 years. Prior to
that, he worked with Wheat First Butcher Singer from 1995 until 2000.

New York-listed Fifth Third Bank promoted Helene Tolentino
to the role of private banker. Prior to her promotion, Tolentino served as a
personal banker at Fifth Third Bank, before which she was a financial service
assistant at AMSouth Bank.

Further Lane Wealth Management appointed two New York-based
advisors, formerly of UBS, to join the firm. The advisors are Stuart Conley and
Harvey Spira, both holding the roles of managing directors.