BMO Global Asset Management added Christopher Keenan as
senior securities lender/trader and Katherine DellaMaria as portfolio manager
to its securities lending and short duration fixed income groups. Both are
based in the Canadian firm’s Chicago,
IL, office.

Raymond James hired Kevin Monaco to lead the establishment
and expansion of new branches in San
Diego and the surrounding areas. The firm now has a
presence in ten California locations.

Monaco
was latterly an executive director and business development manager for Morgan
Stanley Wealth Management in Los
Angeles, CA.

BNY Mellon Investment Management brought in Paul Nobile from
Eaton Vance as chief marketing officer, based in New York.

BNY Mellon told this publication that this is a
newly-expanded leadership role in which Nobile will head all marketing
activities globally. He will also serve in a consulting capacity to the firm's
wealth management business globally.

Nobile will report to PeterPaul Pardi, global head of
distribution, and R Jeep Bryant, executive vice president for marketing and
corporate affairs.

Capital Guardian, a boutique wealth management firm, recruited
15-year Pershing veteran, Larry Gratch, as president and chief operating
officer.

Gratch does not replace anyone in either of the roles as
they are newly-created.

Gratch spent 15 years with Pershing, a wholly-owned
subsidiary of the BNY Mellon, responsible for broker-dealer sales and
relationship management in the Southeastern US.

Emerging Global Advisors named Edward Kerschner as vice
chairman of the firm.

Kerschner will be responsible for helping wealth managers
understand and identify developing market investment opportunities.

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 within its investment management business.

Kraig Brunelle, William Garlow and David Murphy were
appointed to key roles in the firm’s investment offering. The investment unit
provides solutions including professional portfolio management, portfolio
guidance and brokerage services.

Leading the unit's East Coast expansion, Brunelle was named
senior vice president, head of products and services, US. He has more than 15
years of experience, having recently worked at UBS as executive director of the
global family office in the Americas
and previously heading up product development and strategic planning for UBS
Wealth Management.

Garlow was named senior vice president and regional director
of investments, serving the Metro New York, Pennsylvania, New
Jersey, Metro DC, Carolinas, and Florida regions. Prior to joining TD Wealth,
he served as group vice president and regional manager for Wilmington Trust in Baltimore, MD.

Murphy was promoted to senior vice president and regional
director of investments, leading a market-based team in the New
England region. Murphy has been with the firm for more than 13
years, most recently serving as a TD Wealth district manager.

US Bank Wealth Management added Ryan Lange as a portfolio
manager in Sioux Falls, SD.

Lange will develop and implement investment portfolios for
high net worth individuals and institutions.

Lange previously held investment management and equity
research positions at Wells Fargo and, most recently, at Northern Trust.

First Republic Bank, a San Francisco, CA-headquartered
private bank and wealth management company, made Shiva Sattar regional managing
director for San Diego and Orange counties.

Sattar will be based in First
Republic's offices in Newport
Beach and in San Diego,
where she will manage the firm’s private banking and wealth management services
to high net worth individuals, foundations and endowments.

Sattar was most recently a wealth management regional
director for Union Bank in Los Angeles, and a
private banking regional director for Wells Fargo/Wachovia in Orange County,
San Diego and Los Angeles, CA.

Dynasty Financial Partners hired Tom Petrone as director of
capital markets, based in New York
City.

Petrone was appointed to the Dynasty Financial Partners
Investment Committee and will report to the firm’s chairman and chief
investment officer, Todd Thomson.

Petrone will lead a number of initiatives to expand the
firm’s capital markets platform. This will include trading securities,
structuring derivatives, and designing hedging and monetization strategies on
restricted securities and originating structured notes. He will also build a
community of syndicate providers and an investment banker referral network.

Petrone most recently served as head of capital markets for
Citi Private Bank in North America,
responsible for the securities and transactional business across all asset
classes.

UBS Wealth Management Americas hired Karen Damaso in a role
that will support new business development initiatives in the equity
compensation services division.

Based in New
Jersey, Damaso will focus on driving corporate client
sales with key prospects in collaboration with financial advisors. She will
report to Michael Barry, head of the business.

Damaso joined UBS with more than 16 years of corporate sales
experience and seven years of corporate equity compensation experience, having
worked as director of sales at Equity Methods and Bank of America Merrill Lynch
respectively.

The brokerage firm Sitfel, Nicolaus & Co hired Julie
Gampp as vice president of investments, based in Frontenac, MO.

Gampp joined from US Bancorp and started her investment
career with Mark Twain Brokerage in 1996. She remained with the latter firm
through its mergers with Mercantile Bancorporation, Firstar Corporation and,
ultimately, US Bancorp.

Bel Air Investment Advisors, a Los Angeles, CA-headquartered
wealth management advisor, hired Michael Ginestro as head of research and Barry
HoAire as portfolio manager within its fixed income group.

The firm said that the hires will bolster its existing
capabilities and meet the growing fixed income needs from its client base of
high net worth individuals, families, trusts and foundations across North America.

Ginestro has nearly 20 years fixed income experience having
served as vice president and senior municipal credit analyst within Wells
Fargo’s wealth management group. Prior to this, he was a municipal research
analyst at Charles Schwab Investment Management, and held similar leadership
roles at Highmark Capital Management and Morgan Stanley.

Before joining Bel Air, HoAire was a senior portfolio
manager in New York
for Western Asset Management, responsible for the management of over $5 billion
in municipal assets across national and state specific strategies.

Barclays’ wealth and investment business appointed Peter
Horrell as its chief executive, having held the role on an interim basis since
May 1 this year.

Horrell reports to Antony Jenkins, CEO for the entire
UK-listed banking group.

RBC Wealth Management added The DiChiaro-Bourgault Group to
its Providence, RI,
office, according to Daniel Kennedy, Providence
branch director.

The DiChiaro-Bourgault Group joined from JP Morgan
Securities and has some $192 million in assets under management and $1.9
million in total production.

The team is comprised of financial advisors Richard DiChiaro
and Bob Bourgault, and Sarah Paiva, a registered client associate.

Ziegler, a Chicago-headquartered investment bank and
brokerage firm, hired Kenneth R. Koger as a financial advisor.

Koger has more than 13 years of advisory experience, working
with clients to identify and achieve financial goals through investments and
tailored advice.

Working from Ziegler’s Chicago
office, Koger’s hire is part of the firm’s on-going growth strategy for the Chicago market.

The Philadelphia-headquartered wealth manager Glenmede hired
David Plotts as director of financial planning.

Plotts will assist clients and their advisors to develop,
implement and monitor estate and financial planning services.

Plotts has nearly two decades of experience in financial
services, joining Glenmede from Hawthorn PNC Family Wealth, where he was a
senior vice president and market director of wealth strategy, handling wealth
transfer and estate planning strategies for families. Previously, he served as
a tax director at PricewaterhouseCoopers, advising on estate plans for high net
worth individuals and families and providing comprehensive financial planning
for business executives.

Michael Marchassalla, who is the managing director and
complex manager for some of Morgan Stanley Wealth Management’s most profitable
offices in New York,
left after spending more than 20 years at the firm.

Another executive, John Algeri, who was a service manager at
one of the offices managed by Marchassalla and had been with the company for 18
years, also left Morgan Stanley Wealth Management.

Marchassalla's duties will be divided up between two other
complex managers. Morgan Stanley said the departures are not part of broader
changes.

Marchassalla, a veteran Smith Barney broker, joined Morgan
Stanley when it began absorbing Smith Barney in 2009.

Strategic Wealth Partners, a Chicago-based independent
wealth management firm, added Scott Smith to its team of investment advisors.

In his new role, Smith will focus on planning and advisory
services for the firm’s high net worth individuals, families and institutional
clients, including 401(k) and other retirement plans.

He joined Strategic Wealth Partners from Accretive
Solutions, a professional services and executive search firm specializing in
accounting, finance, internal audit and corporate tax. Smith also has
experience in private equity consulting, tax consulting and various
professional financial services, having previously served as a CPA and audit
partner at Arthur Andersen.

Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management hired a team of three
client advisors in Houston,
TX, to broaden its distribution
of wealth planning advice and investment solutions to wealthy individuals and
families.

All three client advisors joined the firm from Bank of
America Merrill Lynch, where they managed over $1 billion in total assets.

Michael Dawson joined as a director and client advisor.
Prior to Merrill Lynch, Dawson
spent over 30 years advising ultra high net worth individuals in the private
client group at Goldman Sachs.

Stephan Farber was appointed as director and client advisor
at Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management. Prior to Merrill Lynch, he spent
five years at UBS as a vice president in the private wealth management
division.

Stephen Cordill joined as a vice president and client
advisor. Previously, he was president of Sanders Morris Harris Asset &
Wealth Management and managing director and head of asset management for
Oppenheimer & Co.

The three men report to John McCauley, managing director and
Houston regional executive for Deutsche Bank
Wealth Management, Americas.

BNY Mellon Wealth Management has hired Robert Pick as senior
director for BNY Mellon Wealth Management in Palm Beach Gardens, FL,
as part of the firm’s two-year plan to boost its sales force by 50 per cent.

Pick joined the firm in mid-July and reports to Tim Goering,
managing director for business development in Florida. Prior to this latest move, he was
the founder and managing director of the Alternative Capital Group in Panama City, Panama, BNY Mellon said in a
statement. 

Snowden Capital Advisors, the New York City-headquartered
wealth advisor firm, brought on board the Guth-Fordyce Team from Merrill Lynch,
which is also opening a new Snowden office in New Haven, CT.
The team manages around $500 million of client money.

The team includes managing directors and private wealth
advisors Kevin Guth and Stephen Fordyce, who have become Snowden partners, and
Jeremy Soboleski, private wealth advisor.

BNY Mellon appointed Eric Matheson as senior director of business
development for BNY Mellon Wealth Management serving the ultra high net worth
market in the New York Tri-State region. It also made a senior appointment in Denver, CO.

Matheson started with the firm in early July and reports to Katia Friend,
managing director for the Tri-State region. Prior to joining BNY Mellon, he was
a financial advisor and partner on a team managing more than $1 billion in assets
at Raymond James.

Previously, he served as a vice president and financial advisor for
Bernstein Global Wealth Management, and as a fixed income specialist Offitbank,
working with ultra-high net worth individuals and their family offices,
businesses and personal trusts.

The firm also hired Tracy McCarthy to lead its Denver office as regional president. She will
report to David Emmes, president of US Markets West. In this role, McCarthy
will be responsible for managing and expanding the firm’s presence in Colorado.

Washington DC-headquartered wealth management firm Wilmington Trust opened a
new Wealth advisory office and team in Albany,
NY.

The office comprises a new wealth advisory team in the Albany market, including Sandra Plowinske,
Elizabeth Squires, and Heather Ford.

Plowinske is a senior private client advisor, specializing in developing
strategies for the creation, protection, and efficient distribution of wealth
for families. Plowinske will provide solutions in investment management,
fiduciary services, philanthropic, private banking, and family office services.

Prior to joining Wilmington Trust, Plowinske was a wealth advisor with Key
Investment Services. In 2004, she served as president and executive financial
advisor at Atlantic Private Wealth Management in East Greenbush,
NY. Earlier in her career, she was vice president in the private clients group
at Bank of America, as well as a wealth advisor with Morgan Stanley.

Squires is responsible for estate and trust administration matters, serving
a range of clients, including individuals and their families, and institutions
and foundations. Prior to joining Wilmington Trust, Squires was a senior trust
officer at Key Private Bank.

Ford joined the Wilmington Trust Albany team as a private banker. Prior to
joining Wilmington Trust, Ford served at KeyBank as a business banking
relationship manager. Before that, she was director of business development
with the Schenectady Economic Development Corporation.

The Manhattan-based financial planning firm, KBK Wealth Management, launched
an aggressive campaign to attract financial advisors for an upcoming
expansion. 

The firm is looking to expand and hire a string of financial advisors over
the coming months.

First
Republic Bank, the San
Francisco-headquartered private bank and wealth management company, hired James
Meany as a regional managing director.

Meany will be based in the bank's Palm
Beach office and oversee First
Republic's banking and
wealth management operations in the region.

Prior to joining First
Republic, Meany was president of
Sabadell Bank & Trust, Palm Beach,
where he was a member of the bank's investment, trust and fiduciary committees.
He previously helped found Island National Bank & Trust in Palm Beach and
following its sale to Wachovia Bank, Meany was named managing director of
OffitBank, a Wachovia company.

Manhattan, NY-based Geller & Company recruited Joe
Calabrese from Harris myCFO as chief executive of Geller Family Office
Services, the firm’s family office and wealth advisory business.

Calabrese will work closely with Martin Geller, founder and
CEO of Geller & Company, and the GFOS leadership team, in developing the
business’ operations and strategic direction.

He will lead a GFOS team comprised of some 60 professionals
specializing in ultra high net worth investment advisory, tax, estate and trust
planning, CFO advisory services and concierge services.

Calabrese was latterly president and CEO of Harris myCFO,
the multi-family office unit of BMO Private Bank. He has significant experience
in the areas of investments; trusts and estates; tax planning; philanthropy;
family education; capital advisory; risk management and insurance advisory; and
financial reporting and expense management, Geller & Co said. 

Wells Fargo Private Bank promoted Stacey Ackerman to senior
regional fiduciary manager, responsible for the investment and fiduciary
services business in North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska
and Kansas.

Washington DC-headquartered wealth management firm
Wilmington Trust appointed Peter Carnathan as a private client advisor.

Carnathan joined from Fiduciary Trust Company, where was
managing director and business development officer.

He has over 20 years of experience in assisting families
with their wealth management needs in the Greater Washington area.

New York-based investment management law firm Orical appointed
James Leahy as a partner.

Leahy left Marathon Asset Management at the end of May,
where he was chief financial officer. Before this, he helped found a hedge fund
operations business at Moody's Investors Service, where he was also a member of
the CDO team.

Craig Spengeman, president and chief investment officer of
Peapack-Gladstone Bank Trust & Investments, is to retire from the firm on
January 2, 2014.

Spengeman, also executive vice president of
Peapack-Gladstone Bank, retired after nearly 29 years at the firm and its wealth
management division. He has spent some 36 years in the financial services
industry.

The bank said he was instrumental in introducing its newest
subsidiary, PGB Trust & Investments of Delaware - established in 2012 - and is
looking to replace him. 

Florida-headquartered
Ocean Bank hired Manuel
del Cañal as executive vice president of the firm’s wealth management division.

del Cañal has worked across retail, international and
business banking with some of Florida’s
largest institutions. Prior to joining Ocean Bank, he served as senior vice
president and business banking manager for the Miami-Dade county at BankUnited,
having previously held the position as senior vice president in retail sales
and international private banking.

Earlier, he worked for SunTrust as first vice president of
international trust and investments.

WE Family Offices, the global advisory firm for ultra high
net worth families, made senior hires in Miami
and opened a new office in Manhattan,
NY.

Bruce Arella joined as a partner and head of real estate
investing, responsible for serving US-based clients from the new Manhattan office. He also
joined the firm’s investment and implementation committees.

Meanwhile, Joseph Kellogg and Elaine King stepped into the Miami, FL,
office.

Kellogg is the firm’s wealth planning executive, working
with clients and their external tax and estate planning professionals, while
King is director of family education and governance.

Bruce was latterly president of the New York office at GenSpring Family Offices.
Prior to GenSpring, he served as managing director and director of manager
research at Orion Capital Management, a multi-strategy fund of funds.

Kellogg previously provided wealth planning services for
international private clients of UBS AG (Miami)
and of HSBC Private Bank (Miami).
In 2002, he opened and managed the Miami
representative office for the Amicorp Group, providing corporate and fiduciary
structures to corporate and private clients. Between 1997 and 2002, he worked
with the Citco Group of companies, based in Curacao,
Netherlands Antilles, and
later in the British Virgin Islands.

King was formerly vice president of Bessemer Trust’s $75
billion family office group, having previously served as managing director of
LFG; director of Gibraltar Private Bank & Trust's wealth and well-being
planning institute; investment manager of the Royal Bank of Scotland's Coutts Latin America
division; and investment manager of Citigroup’s $13 billion advisory service
group.

The Private Client Reserve of US Bank appointed Frank
DeBlasi as a wealth management advisor in Phoenix.

DeBlasi, with more than 13 years’ experience in the financial
services industry, previously served at JP Morgan Private Bank as a senior vice
president and private banker in the Scottsdale,
AZ, area. Prior to that, he
served as a regional vice president with Morgan Stanley in New York from 1999 to 2009.

In his new role, DeBlasi will also coordinate US Bank's
private banking, personnel trust and investment planning expertise available to
clients through the PCR.

Clearbrook Global Advisors, the US privately-held,
independent investment management firm with $30 billion of assets, appointed
Leslie Billet as managing director, responsible for providing investment
advisory services to institutional and high net worth clients of the firm.

Billet will be based in the firm’s New York headquarters and will report to
Elliott Wislar, chief executive of Clearbrook.

She previously worked at Gallagher Fiduciary Advisors -
formerly Independent Fiduciary Services - where she was managed many of the
firm’s institutional client relationships and oversaw investment portfolios.

Prior to joining GFI, Billet was an investment officer at
Brown Brothers Harriman, and a manager at the New York Stock Exchange.

Business consulting and wealth management firm, Rehmann, appointed
Joseph Granzier as a financial advisor at its Westlake, OH,
office.

Granzier joined from McDonald Partners of Cleveland, where
he was a managing director and the director of retirement plan service.

He will focus on individual and family wealth management,
corporate retirement plan consulting and educational funding strategies.

Raymond James promoted Kirk Bell to director of the central
region for Raymond James Financial Services, the firm’s independent broker/dealer.

Bell
replaced David Patchen, who was recently appointed senior vice president of PCG
Education and Practice Management.

Bell
began his financial services career at Merrill Lynch and joined Raymond James
in 2000. Since that time he has managed numerous financial advisor and branch
professional support areas including RJFS branch services, concierge services
and operations support.

As a regional director for RJFS, Bell is responsible for risk management and
supervision, branch manager and advisor relationship management, and advisor
recruiting. His region includes 12 states, with more than 450 advisors in 217
branches. In addition, he provides practice management coaching to advisors and
their teams, who range from mid-level advisors to some of the top advisory
firms affiliated with Raymond James.

New York-headquartered life insurer MetLife appointed Nela
D’Agosta as managing director of marketing and investor services to its
institutional investment management unit, MetLife Investment Management.

D’Agosta is responsible for marketing and relationship
management for MetLife Private Capital investors.

She joined MetLife from Goldman Sachs Asset Management,
where she was a senior relationship. Before this, D’Agosta was a global client
manager at JP Morgan Chase Bank for nine years. In addition, D’Agosta held
several relationship management positions at Morgan Stanley Trust Company.

JP Morgan recruited Edinardo Figueiredo from UBS to head its
Brazilian private banking business, based in São Paulo.

Figueiredo will report jointly to José
Berenguer, Brazil
senior country officer of JP Morgan, and Chris Harvey, head of private banking
for Latin America.

Figueiredo latterly served as chief executive of UBS's Brazil wealth management business, having
previously worked at Banco Itau - most recently as CEO of the firm’s private
banking business in Luxembourg
and Switzerland.
He has also held senior positions focusing on investment products at BankBoston
and ABN AMRO in Brazil.

Nova Capital Management, a specialist acquirer of corporate
and private equity portfolios, hired Richard Lobo as an investment partner on
its North American team.

The firm opened its North American headquarters in Chicago, IL, in January
this year, as Nova looks to grow its US footprint.

Lobo spent the last 20 years with CHS Capital, a
Chicago-based private equity firm investing in mid-market companies in the US.

HarbourVest Partners, the US-headquartered private markets
investment firm, appointed Olav König, to be based in the UK with a brief to cover the Europe, Middle East
and Africa region. He holds the title of
managing director and head of sales and client service at HarbourVest Partners
(UK).

He is a German national and a lawyer by background, working
alongside a team including Hannah Tobin, a principal who is focused on client
and consultant relations, and HarbourVest’s 28 investment and client service
professionals based in Europe.

König previously worked at Eaton Partners, a global
placement agent where he was a partner and head of Europe,
with a focus on German-speaking countries and UK-based limited partners.  Prior to that, he spent eight years at
Capital Dynamics in Zurich and London, latterly as managing director,
business development.

E Gray Smith joined UBS Wealth Management Americas from
Morgan Stanley in Winston-Salem,
NC.

Smith has $345,000,000 in assets under management and a T-12
production of $1.8 million.

On his team are Toni Murphy and Laura Norgaard, both
registered client service associates.

Merrill Lynch Wealth Management added to its private banking
and investment group with hires in Denver, CO, and Florida.

Diane Padalino, a private wealth advisor in Denver, CO,
joined from Goldman Sachs with $325 million in assets under management and
$1,857,500 in production.

Meanwhile, John Molkentin and Denise Chin Quee - latterly of
Morgan Stanley - represent a combined $183 million in assets and over $1.3
million in production. They joined Merrill’s Miami, FL,
office.

UBS Wealth Management Americas hired Jonathan Brooks as a
sales director to support new business development initiatives in the equity
compensation services division.

Based in New Jersey,
Brooks will report to Michael Barry, head of business.

In his new role, Brooks will focus on driving corporate
client sales and helping to develop the firm's presence in the equity
compensation industry.

Brooks has more than 15 years of experience in the equity
compensation industry, having worked at E*TRADE and Morgan Stanley. Whilst at
E*TRADE, he led the Eastern US client
management organization and oversaw efforts to ensure significant increase in
service quality, satisfaction and retention of corporate clients.

US
advisory firm Kingfisher Capital promoted Chad Frk to director, after nearly
two years at the Charlotte, NC-based firm.

Previously, Frk held similar roles with JPMorgan Chase &
Co and Northern Trust. Most recently, at JP Morgan, he covered high net worth
business owners in the greater Chicago,
IL, area and educated existing
clients, while also monitoring managed portfolios.

In his expanded role, Frk will work with individual and
family accounts in delivering the firm's integrated wealth management
capabilities.

In addition, Kingfisher Capital hired Kevin Pollard, who
serves as the firm's head trader and oversees its portfolio administration.
Pollard joined the firm from Bank of America where he managed Columbia
Management's separate account management platform.

Raymond James expanded its management team in Portland, Maine,
with the appointment of financial advisors Chris Rogers, Steve Guthrie, Dana
Ricker and David Mitchell.

The team, also known as The Portland Harbor Group of Raymond
James, joined the firm from Morgan Stanley, where they managed more than $500
million in client assets and had $3.4 million in annual fees and commissions.

Rogers
will focus on estate planning, wealth transfer and macroeconomic research. He
began his financial career at Shearson in 1983. After several mergers, Shearson
became Morgan Stanley, where Rogers
remained until joining Raymond James.

Guthrie is senior vice president of investments and in his
role he will primarily on fixed income strategies and portfolio management. He
began his career at EF Hutton and Morgan Stanley, where he worked until joining
Raymond James.

Ricker is vice president of investments, specializing in
financial, education and legacy planning, as well as retirement income
strategies. He began his career in 1996 at Smith Barney, which ultimately
became Morgan Stanley.

Mitchell is vice president of investments and began his
career at Smith Barney in 1998.

Joining the four advisors are Lauren Schaefer-Bove, senior registered
sales associate, and Zara Machatine, sales associate.

Raymond James appointed Stephen Valelly as senior vice
president of investments in the Dallas,
TX, office of Raymond James &
Associates.

Valelly, with 33 years’ financial services experience,
joined Raymond James from Jefferies & Company, where he managed more than
$100 million in client assets. Valelly began his career in the international
private banking sector, ultimately becoming president of Bank of Boston
International, where he had general management responsibility for the branch
entities in Miami, Houston,
Los Angeles, New York,
Boston and Nassau,
Bahamas.

Valelly later became a partner at Coral Rock Investments and
was a commodity trading advisor for 12 years before transitioning into wealth
management. He worked at Capital Institutional Services, Merrill Lynch and
Jefferies before joining Raymond James.

The Caprock Group, a Boise, Idaho-based multi-family office,
appointed Greg Mech as a managing director to head its new office in Newport Beach.

Caprock, which serves as a financial advisor to high net worth
clients, has other offices in San Jose, Seattle and Park
City, Utah.

Mech, has spent nearly four decades in the wealth management
and consulting fields, including a 29-year tenure at Merrill Lynch. He served
as a regional managing director, overseeing Merrill Lynch’s private wealth
management operations in the Western US. He
also was the OC market president for Bank of America.

Mech is the founder of eMaxx Partners, a virtual financial
advisory firm, which launched last year.

Merrill Lynch appointed Charles Phelps and Abtin Zarrabi,
formerly of Morgan Stanley, and Robert Bezzone and Joseph Marotta  from Wells Fargo.

All four men werer hired by the firm as advisors.

Phelps is based in San Mateo,
CA, while Abtin Zarrabi is based in Pinnacle Peak, AZ.

Royal Bank of Canada
appointed Kathleen Taylor as head of the board, making her the first woman to
head a major bank in Canada.

Taylor
will become the next chair, following the retirement of current chair David
O’Brien at the end of this year.

She has been a director on the RBC board since 2001. During
this time, she has largely focused on the audit, risk and human resources committees
and since 2010 she has led the human resources committee.

Taylor
is also the former president and chief executive officer of Four Seasons Hotels
and Resorts, where she served in a variety of progressively senior leadership
roles.

Wells Fargo Advisors made five financial advisor
appointments, all of whom joined the Private Client Group (the standalone WFA
branches).

Lou Walsh, with 17 years’ financial industry experience, joined
the Jacksonville, FL branch from UBS.  He reports to complex manager Joe Bruno.

Eric Zakarin joined in Westfield,
NJ, from Morgan Stanley.  He has 26 years’ experience in the finance
sector and $261 million in assets under management, and reports to complex
manager Bill Drake.

Courtenay Hathcock, Frederick Rossetter and William Black
joined the firm’s New York-Penn Center branch. Combined, they have 64 years of
experience within the finance industry and $418 million in AuM.  They all report to branch manager Ted Geller. 

Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management recruited Matt
Montana from Bank of America as a managing director and head of equity trading
for the Americas.

Based in New York, Montana will report to Joshua Friedberg, head of trading,
Americas.

He joined from Merrill Lynch, where he spent 25 years in New York and London
- most recently as a managing director in charge of non-dollar sales and
trading.

GenSpring Family Offices, the Florida-based wealth
management firm for ultra high net worth families, promoted David Vines to
president of the Charlotte,
NC, family office.

Vines will oversee all operations and the delivery of MFO
and investment management services to clients throughout the Carolinas.

JP Morgan appointed John Morris to its private banking arm
in Nashville, TN, to cater for residents with at least $5
billion of assets.

Morris takes up the role of executive director and private
banker, having already acquired 22 years of experience in the sector, most
recently as a wealth strategist with GenSpring Family Offices. Morris was
joined by banker associate Sarah Moore, who returned to JP Morgan from Bank of
America Merrill Lynch, where she worked as a financial advisor.

New York-listed Huntington Bank named Gregory Smith
president of Cincinnati, OH-based Haberer Registered Investment Advisor, a
wholly-owned subsidiary of the Huntington National Bank.

Smith will report to Steven Short, executive vice president
and director of Huntington Wealth Advisors.

Smith has served as senior vice president and director of
private client services for Haberer since 2006. He has over 22 years of
experience in the financial services industry and is a member of the Financial
Planning Association. 

Barclays appointed a former senior US government
advisor Bob Hoyt as the UK-listed bank’s as group general counsel. He will
succeed Mark Harding in this role, whose intention to retire was announced in
February.

Hoyt is expected to take up his role in mid-October, while
Harding will retire from Barclays after an appropriate handover period. Hoyt
will be a member of the executive committee and report directly to group chief
executive, Antony Jenkins.