People Moves
MSSB Hires Former Merrill Wealth Management Exec
Morgan
Stanley Smith Barney has named Colbert Narcisse, a
formerMerrill
Lynch executive,
as chief operating officer of investment strategy and solutions.
Narcisse
fills a role left vacant by James Walker, who was named head of
the firm's
consulting group in September.
Narcisse,
who left Merrill in 2009, joins from Gold Bullion International,
where he was
chief executive.
He
spent 17 years at Merrill Lynch, most recently as chief operating
officer of
Americas investment banking and was also chief operating officer
of the firm's
global wealth management unit. Previously he was a managing
director in Merrill’s
Financial Institutions Group.
