Raymond James has brought in Peter Alberding and Warren Wright to establish and expand the firm’s offices in Boston, MA, and Washington, DC.

Raymond James has brought in Peter Alberding and Warren Wright to establish and expand the firm’s offices in Boston, MA, and Washington, DC, as the firm looks to expand in the Northeast.

Alberding - latterly of UBS - has been appointed as branch manager of what will be the first Raymond James & Associates retail office in Boston’s downtown financial district, due to open in April.

He started his stint at UBS as a financial advisor in 1997 with PaineWebber, later becoming a sales manager at the firm’s downtown Boston branch. Additionally, he spent three years working at the firm’s domestic wealth management business in Switzerland, and was also, for a period of time, chief operating officer of its western US division in Chicago, IL.

Meanwhile, Wright has been named as Mid-Atlantic complex manager, based in Washington, DC. Wright previously held a number of leadership roles at Morgan Stanley and its predecessor firm, Smith Barney, including branch manager and complex business development manager. Prior to joining Smith Barney in 2008, Wright spent 10 years at Merrill Lynch’s Washington branch, where he built an advisory practice and was also a sales manager.