RBC Wealth Management has hired James Leslie as a financial advisor in Pittsburgh.

RBC Wealth Management has hired James Leslie as a financial advisor in Pittsburgh.

Leslie joins RBC Wealth Management after close to 30 years at Wells Fargo Advisors.  He has 32 years of financial industry experience, $140 million in assets under management and close to $1 million in production.

Ken Ross, senior managing director of the Pittsburgh complex at RBC Wealth Management in the US, said the firm hired six financial advisors in the region in 2013 and has set its goals high for this year too.

Yesterday, RBC Wealth Management hired Katie Clark and Melanie Folstad - latterly of Merrill Lynch - as senior vice presidents and financial advisors in Washington, DC.