Philadelphia, PA-based Janney Montgomery Scott has appointed Robert Benson and his partner Michael Slaymaker as first vice president of wealth management and vice president of wealth management, respectively, in Washington, DC.

Benson and Slaymaker collectively oversee about $142 million in client assets and are joined by registered private client assistant Elizabeth Miller to form The Old Dominion Group.

Benson spent the past four years at Morgan Stanley, having previously worked between 2006 and 2009 at Citigroup and for 21 years at Legg Mason prior to that. Slaymaker also joins from Morgan Stanley.

In another significant move recently, last month Janney hired Randall Renneisen as an executive vice president of wealth management in Greenville, DE.

Janney is an independently-operated subsidiary of The Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company and a member of the New York Stock Exchange.