First Foundation Bank, the Irvine, CA-based investment and
wealth planning firm,  appointed Stuart
Bailey as vice president and private banker. Bailey most recently served as
regional president for Sunrise Bank in Palm
Desert, CA.

Manulife Asset Management named Jacqui Allard as president
of its Canadian operations. Allard added this new position to her role as
global chief operating officer for the company. She is charged with building
Manulife's asset management business in Canada.

Sandy Cove Advisors, the Massachusetts-based multi-family
office, appointed David Duval as a partner. Duval has 30 years of financial,
administrative and investment management experience to the role and will be
working with high net worth clients on wealth creation, transfer and
preservation.

Florida-headquartered Gibraltar Private Bank & Trust
appointed former JP Morgan banker Jumah Hamilton as an assistant vice president
and private banker.

First California Bank, a subsidiary of First California
Financial Group, promoted Stacy Peterson to the newly-created role of market
president. Peterson joined the company in 2009 as senior vice president and
regional manager in commercial lending.

The wealth management arm of Australian banking group
Macquarie appointed its first regional manager for Eastern
Canada, recruiting him from the investment business of Canadian
Imperial Bank of Commerce. Tom Williams joins Macquarie Private Wealth from
CIBC Wood Gundy, where he had spent 16 years as a non-producing branch manager.

Gary Reamey, country leader for Canada at Edward Jones, steps down
from his post at the end of 2011. He will be replaced by David Lane. Reamey retires from the role
after a 35-year career but will remain a senior partner with the firm and a member
of the senior management team until the end of 2012.

ThinkEquity, the subsidiary of Panmure Gordon that provides
wealth and asset management services, appointed Bruce Nollenberger as president
of the asset and wealth management division. 
Nollenberger joined the company after selling his firm, San
Francisco-based Nollenberger Capital Partners, to Sterne Agee early this year.

StanCorp Investment Advisors, a StanCorp Financial Group
subsidiary, named Kristie Cahill as senior investment counselor for its San Francisco office.
Cahill was most recently a registered client service associate at Morgan
Stanley Smith Barney.

BlackRock added Marco Antonio Slim Domit, son of
multibillionaire Carlos Slim, to its board of directors. Slim Domit is the
chairman and chief executive of Grupo Financiero Inbursa, a Mexico-based
holding company that provides banking among other services - a role he has held
since 1997.

Northern Trust appointed Marie Dzanis, latterly of BlackRock
iShares, as a senior vice president and head of ETF sales and servicing. In her
new role Dzanis is based at Northern Trust’s Chicago headquarters.

Washington Trust Wealth Management brought in two senior
executives to its Wellesley, MA-based division, Weston Financial. Joining as
president and chief operating officer of Weston is Jake Filoon. He comes to the
firm after 20 years at Bank of America, where he held various roles including
in wealth management. Washington
also appointed James Scanlan as director and planning officer, responsible for business
development and financial planning at Weston. He was previously a partner in an
independent wealth management firm.

Sidley Austin, the law firm, added six members to its
executive committee and three to its management group. Joining the Chicago executive
committee were Brian Fahrney and Craig Griffith. Jennifer Hagle joined the Los Angeles executive
team.

Matthew Sheridan steps in for both Singapore and Hong Kong.
Sheridan joined
the company in 2000. Susan Stone entered the Chicago
and New York teams.
Stone is co-head of the firm's insurance and financial services group, a global
coordinator of the insurance and reinsurance disputes practice and a partner
since 1995. Effie Vasilopoulos stepped in for Hong Kong.
Vasilopoulos joined the company in 2003 and is head of the investment funds
practice in Asia.

The management committee has also been expanded, bringing
the current count to 11 members. Larry Barden and Larry Nyhan are now part of
the Chicago
management committee. Mark Hopson joined the Washington DC
management committee. Hopson has been a partner since 1992.

KPMG appointed Lynne Doughtie as vice chair for advisory and
Carl Carande as national managing partner for advisory. Doughtie most recently
served as national managing partner, the position Carande is assuming.

Treliant Risk Advisors appointed Waldo Abbot as general
manager and head of its New York
office. Before Treliant, he was the chief executive of BNP Paribas Fortis in New York.

Highland Capital Brokerage, the insurance and wealth
management firm, appointed David Braun as managing principal of the Los Angeles branch. Braun
previously worked at the life insurance unit of Wells Fargo and served
wholesaling roles at Travelers and Reliastar.

AEPG Wealth Strategies, the wealth management unit of New
Jersey-based American Economic Planning Group, appointed Ray Hawkins as vice
president of financial and estate planning. Hawkins most recently served as a
financial advisor at AXA Advisors.

Cary Street Partners, the Virginia-based wealth management
and investment banking firm, appointed William Akmentins as director of
research. Akmentins was previously the director of public investments at
Southern Methodist University.

JP Morgan hired Jasmine Abouzied, latterly of Goldman Sachs
Group, as an executive director and private banker at its New York office.

Citi appointed Nathan Sheets as global head of international
economics within its investment research and analysis division. Sheets joined
from the Federal Reserve Board in Washington
DC where he was director of the
division of international finance. He also previously acted as the Fed
chairman's international advisor at the onset of the European financial crisis
in 2010.  

Hynes, Himmelreich, Glennon and Company, a wealth management
firm based in Darien, CT, named Paul Papapostolou as senior
advisor with immediate effect. Papapostolou was most recently a managing
director for Joel Isaacson & Co in New
York.

Soros Fund Management, which legendary investor George Soros
recently decided to convert to a family office, named Scott Bessent as chief
investment officer, while Jonathan Soros, son of George, stepped down from day-to-day
management at the firm. Bessent took over from Keith Anderson, who resigned in
connection with the decision to turn the firm into a family office. Anderson,
who joined the firm in 2008, left to seek other opportunities.

BNY Mellon hired Rod Riggins as sales director for its
wealth management business in the Texas
region, a newly-created role in an important market for the firm. Riggins is
responsible for new business development and connecting high net worth families
and foundations with BNY Mellon’s services. He reports to Erich Smith,
executive director within the wealth management business.

First Foundation Bank, the private banking and wealth
management firm, named Carl Vonderau as vice president and private banker,
charged with expanding its new office in San
Diego. Vonderau joined from San Diego Private Bank.

New York-listed First
Republic hired a private banker
specializing in the entertainment industry in Southern
California. Kathy Attaii was appointed as managing director in Century City. She joined from Comerica Bank in Los Angeles, where she was
a private banker.

Bank of America restructured its wealth management teams in
the US
following the departure of its former head, Sallie Krawcheck. Greg Franks, who
had been the director of wealth management's western division, retired. Riley
Etheridge will lead a team of four other managers that stretch across the
country and focus on each client base. Etheridge, who is a regional head in the
private banking and investment group, reports to John Thiel, who was put in
charge of the Merrill Lynch brokerage business in April this year.

The 11 regional wealth management heads are: Brett Bernard,
Mid East;

Chris Dupuy, Pacific Northwest; Linda Houston, New England;

Paul Lambert, Mid America;
Bill Lorenz, Mid Atlantic;  Jeff
Markham,Greater Texas;

Sabina McCarthy, NYC Metro; Don Plaus, South
Atlantic; Jeff Ransdell, Southeast.

Citi Private Bank added to its Phoenix, AZ
private banking office with three appointments. Michelle DeJean Schechner stepped
in as managing director and private banker, effective in November. Schechner
was most recently a senior vice president and private client advisor at US
Trust's Phoenix
branch.

Canada-based CI Investments appointed portfolio manager
Robert Swanson at its Cambridge Advisors investment subsidiary. Swanson has
more than 27 years of investment experience and previously served as lead
portfolio manager at Fidelity Investments.

Citi Private Bank appointed Ida Liu as managing director of
the newly-created North America Asia clients group. Liu is a senior private
banker based in Citi's New York
office.

First Republic Bank named Gregg Palmer as managing
director, wealth advisor for its private wealth management office in San Diego. Palmer moves
from Wells Fargo where he worked for 15 years.

CAIS, a New York-based alternatives investment platform
provider, appointed Landon Stone as chief operating officer and general
counsel, responsible for legal, compliance and operational matters. Stone, who
is also a member of the firm’s broker-dealer CAIS Capital, joined from Merrill
Lynch, where he was a director in the alternative investment origination and
product management group.

BNY Mellon appointed Fred Young from Glenmede as managing
director of sales for investment management, within its wealth management
business, in the Boston
region. At Glenmede Young headed up marketing and sales for two of the firm’s New Jersey offices.

Bank of America added 180 Merrill Edge financial solutions
advisors in New Jersey and 50 in Central New
England including Boston and Hartford. BofA’s Merrill Edge service targets
preferred customers, with between $50,000 and $250,000 of investable assets.

Connecticut-based Fieldpoint Private Bank & Trust brought
in a marketing veteran, Michael White, who has worked for the likes of Bank of
America, Citigroup and Morgan Stanley, to head up its branding efforts. Michael
White joined the firm at its Greenwich,
CT headquarters.

Aurion Capital Management, the Canadian investment manager, appointed
David Doritty as vice president for business development.  Doritty most recently served as vice chairman
at Dundee Capital Markets. Before that, he was an equity sales specialist for
the institutional unit of National Bank of Canada.

Financial Symmetry, the North Carolina-based wealth planning
firm, appointed Grace Rooth as operations specialist. Rooth joined the company
in October 2009 as a financial intern.

Cook Associates Executive Search, the human resources firm
that specializes in top-level management searches, named Harry Wilson as
managing director. Wilson
joined from Freddie Mac where he was director of executive recruiting since
2006. Prior to that, he was senior vice president and managing director of
executive recruiting at Wells Fargo.

Tompkins Financial Advisors promoted Laurie Haelen to
managing director of the Western New York
division.  Haelen has more than 20 years
of wealth management and financial services experience and most recently served
as senior vice president and director of investment services.

John Mack stepped down from his role as chairman of Morgan
Stanley and leaves the board of the Wall Street firm by year-end. He was
replaced as chairman by chief executive James Gorman.

Three senior Goldman Sachs Private Wealth Management
advisors left the US firm to
create an independent San Francisco
boutique, called Seven Post Investment Office. Ali Bastani, who spent 13 years
at Goldman Sachs, Eldridge Gray, and Charles Wyman, 15 years in the brokerage
industry, started the new firm on 2 September.

Citi Private Bank appointed Daniel Batista as managing
director and ultra high net worth banker for the New Jersey office. Batista is from JP Morgan
where he served as managing director and private banker in Morristown, New Jersey.
Prior to that, he was a financial consultant with Merrill Lynch.

Morgan Stanley appointed Vincent Reinhart as chief US economist in New York.   Reinhart stepped in from the American
Enterprises Institute in Washington
where he was a resident scholar. Prior to that, he held several key positions
at the US Federal Reserve.

Advent Software appointed Asiff Hirji to its board of
directors. Hirji has over 20 years of experience in operations and technology
in the investment management industry. He has been a partner at the private
investment firm TPG Capital since 2007, prior to which he was president of TD
Ameritrade Holding Company.

Sunbelt-based BBVA Compass, part of New York-listed BBVA,
appointed Tom Tuter as market president for Northern
California. Tuter assumes his new role after serving ten years in
commercial banking at Bank of America.

The Hartford, the insurance
and wealth management services company, hired Michael Gregg as head of
strategic markets for its wealth management business, joining from AXA Global
Distributors in Paris, where he served as
managing director of a unit that distributes guaranteed investment products
through third-parties in Europe and Asia.

UBS Wealth Management Americas hired advisor duo Jonathan
Mitchell and Nick Abdy in Arizona.
Mitchell and Abdy are part of the Tuscon, Arizona office and report directly to
Charlie Cajero, the branch manager. They moved from Wells Fargo.

Former DundeeWealth ultra-high-net-worth private banker
Diane Blondeau moved to Citi Private Bank Canada. Blondeau is now part of a
team of private bankers overseeing at least C$25 million ($25. 3 million) in
liquid assets.

Dynasty Financial Partners, which provides software platforms
for independent advisors, hired Timothy Bello as a partner and director of
strategic implementation. Bello
joined from SkyBridge Capital, a New York-based alternative asset manager,
where he served as head of global platforms.

Citi Private Bank appointed Robert Laughlin as managing
director and head of Citi Trust, North America.
He joined from Neuberger Berman where he was chairman and president of the
trust unit, which caters to high net worth individuals and small- to mid-sized
institutional clients.

Exhilway, the Canadian wealth management group, is setting
to hire 7,000 staff in India
this year. The hires will mostly be done via major social networking media like
Facebook and Twitter. The move is in line with its strategic expansion plan for
the Asian country.

Houston-based US Capital Advisors hired of Bill Hurt and
Titus Harris as managing directors. Harris and Hurt manage approximately $350
million in client assets. They joined from Sanders Morris Harris, the
broker-dealer arm of The Edelman Financial Group.

First Republic Bank, the California-headquartered private
bank and wealth management firm, named Matt Krusko as a managing director and
wealth advisor at its private wealth operation in New York. Krusko joined from Bernstein
Global Wealth Management where he served as a vice president and financial
advisor.

New York-based Signature Bank appointed a new six-strong
private client banking team – all from HSBC – and three further private client
staff members.Joseph Alexander and John Kourkoutis were named group director
and senior vice president of the new team, which will be based in the firm’s
private client banking office in Long Island City, Queens, NY.

Alexander was latterly branch manager and vice president at
HSBC at the Long Island
City location and has
also spent 18 years at JP Morgan Chase, 15 of which were spent as branch
manager and vice president. Kourkoutis' banking career spans more than two
decades. During his 13 years at HSBC Bank USA/Republic National Bank, he was
vice president and business banking market manager for Queens and the Bronx.

Genworth Financial Wealth Management appointed Myra Rothfeld
as chief marketing officer, joining from Citibank where she led the development
of a new advisor channel for high net worth clients.

Barclays Wealth appointed Michele Huff Powell as director
and investment representative for the Dallas
branch. Powell joined from US Trust, Bank of America Private Wealth Management,
where she served as senior wealth advisor.

Citi Private Bank named Russ Labrasca as managing director
and head of the Houston
office. Labrasca joined from Wells Fargo Private Bank where he was a senior
managing director responsible for the Southern region.

Washington Wealth Management, which was launched in December
last year, named Scott Wilson – latterly of UBS - as its new western regional
director as part of its ongoing growth strategy. Wilson
is based in San Diego, California,
and responsible for developing branch offices in the area, as well as in Palm Springs, California,
and Denver, Colorado.

UBS appointed Edinardo Figueiredo as desk head for its ultra
high net worth business in Brazil,
recruiting him from Banco Itau. Figueiredo had worked at Banco Itau for five
years, most recently as head of Itau's private banking operations in Europe and
chief executive of the bank in Switzerland,
based in Zurich.

Lexington Wealth Management moved its office in Massachusetts from the New
England Executive Park in Burlington, to
Lexington. Along
with the move the firm appointed Karen Van Voorhis as client relationship
manager, based at the new branch at 12
Waltham Street.

Atlantic Trust appointed Paulina Mejia as managing director
and senior wealth strategist for the New
York office. Mejia brings 10 years of trusts and
estates practice and advisory experience to her new role, having specialized in
high net worth clients and tax-exempt institutions.

Harris myCFO, the US-based family office advisory unit of
BMO Financial Group, appointed Francine Lee as director. Lee was previously the
senior vice president and head of family wealth advisory services for the Americas at
HSBC Private Bank.

Evercore Wealth Management, the financial services firm that
caters to high net worth clients, opened a new office in Minneapolis and named six new partners there.
Martha Pomerantz, Julie Krieger, Pam Lundell, Jason Anderson, Stacie Price, and
Michael Seppelt joined from Lowry Hill, a Minneapolis-based private asset
management firm and part of Wells Fargo Bank. They report directly to Jeff
Maurer, the chief executive based in New
York.

Carson Wealth Management Group, the Omaha-based firm, was
named Brett Carson as director of research and Aaron Foster as a financial
analyst. Carson
spent the last 11 years as an equity analyst at GARP Research, where he
specialized in studies on mid-to-small cap companies.

Peoples Financial Advisors, the wealth management unit of
Peoples Bank, named Michael Gheen as vice president and retirement plan
manager. Gheen joined from Heartland Financial USA where he served as business
development officer for retirement plan services for five months.

Société Générale named Michael Haigh as managing director
and global head of commodities research at its cross asset research division,
based in New York.
Haigh previously worked for the company in global research between 2007 and
2009. He joined from Standard Chartered Bank in Singapore, where he was global head
of commodities research.

Western Asset Management, the fixed interest specialist
subsidiary of Legg Mason, saw the departure of fund manager Dipankar Shewaram.
Head of global credit Mike Buchanan and Prashant Chandran, global head of
derivatives, took over portfolio management responsibilities.

San Francisco-based Wealth Management Associates brought in
Andrew Eakin as a financial professional, focusing on business development.
Eakin was most recently a planning associate at Legacy Capital Group.

City National Bank appointed Ralph Dickman as vice president
and senior private client advisor for its San
Jose regional center. 
Dickman joined from Wells Fargo Private Bank where he served as a
private banker.

BNY Mellon reorganized the charitable gifts services
division of its wealth management business. Sally Rubin was appointed as
director of charitable gifts services investments. She joins the firm after 12
years in the institutional investment industry, to lead the charitable gifts
investment team, and with overall responsibility for the division’s relationships.

Robert W Baird hired a branch manager and six financial
advisors in the US. Thomas Parkins, previously a principal and director of new
business development at Kenilworth Asset Management, is now vice president and
non-producing branch manager for the Kansas
office.

The company also named three advisors to its Sioux City, Denver, and Charlotte branches. David
Silverberg and Jeff Pedersen of the Silverberg Pedersen Group joined as senior
vice president and vice president respectively. The duo came from Morgan
Stanley. Joining the Denver
branch are Dominic Capuano and Timothy Butler of the Capuano Butler Group as
senior vice presidents.

William McCollum and Travis McCollum of the McCullom Group
are now director and vice president respectively of the Charlotte branch at Robert W Baird,
previously of Wells Fargo Advisors.

The Dreyfus Corporation appointed Christopher Sheldon as
chief investment officer, replacing Phil Maisano, who retired earlier this
year. Sheldon joined BNY Mellon in 1995 and was most recently managing director
of the firm’s wealth management business on the West Coast.

RBC Wealth Management named Samir Dewan as chief operating
officer and head of business development for the emerging markets, a Singapore-based
role in which he oversees strategy, operations, overall business management and
strategic initiatives for this side of the business. Dewan reports to Barend
Janssens, the Canadian bank’s head of emerging markets, and Ingrid Versnel,
global head of operations and technology.