The latest moves in wealth management across North America.

Fieldpoint Private
Connecticut-based Fieldpoint Private, the wealth advisory and private banking boutique serving ultra-high net worth families and institutions, has appointed Nicole Boutmy de Katzmann as managing director and senior advisor of its New York City office.

De Katzmann joins Fieldpoint Private from Oppenheimer & Company’s private client division, where she advised approximately 40 families in Europe, Latin America and the US. She began her career with Republic National Bank of New York, serving as an international private banker in Montevideo, Milan, London and New York. In all, she spent 25 years with Republic.

RBC Wealth Management
RBC Wealth Management has hired Rosen Wealth Management Group to join its San Francisco office.

The Rosen Wealth Management Group comprises Bruce Rosen, managing director and financial advisor who has 35 years of industry experience, Mary DuSablon, investment associate, and Mia Manahan, senior client associate.  The team manages approximately $390 million in assets and joins from Wells Fargo.

Also, it has appointed Michael Greth as senior vice president and financial advisor to its Des Moines, Iowa office. Greth joins with 14 years of industry experience. 

He manages approximately $170 million in client assets and joins RBC from Wells Fargo. 

SEI
SEI Investments Canada Company, part of the US-headquartered financial services and technology firm SEI, has hired Lucy Paglione as senior client portfolio manager in its Toronto office. 

Paglione will be responsible for managing relationships with SEI’s non-profit and defined benefit Canadian clients. She focuses on delivering SEI’s outsourced chief investment officer services to clients.

With more than 35 years of asset management experience, Paglione joins SEI Canada from the Teacher’s Pension Plan Fund in St John’s, Newfoundland, where she implemented the fund’s investment strategy and was responsible for the day-to-day management of its investments. Prior to this, she was a principal and national leader at Buck Consultants in Toronto.

​SEI founded its Canadian business in 1983; it began offering investment solutions to retail investors through investment advisors in 1994. The parent firm, which now works with organizations including wealth managers, administers, advises and managers $882 billion, as of June 30, 2018.

Jupiter
Global asset manager Jupiter has appointed William Lopez joins as hesd of Latin America and US offshore.

Lopez, who joins Jupiter following four years at Columbia Threadneedle where he was responsible for US Offshore and Mexico, will lead the firm’s distribution efforts in Latin America and US Offshore. He will be responsible for both institutional and wholesale channels. 

Raymond James
Raymond James has hired Patton Wealth Management to Raymond James Financial Services (RJFS) – the firm’s independent broker/dealer – in Maumee, Ohio.

The wealth management firm consists of financial advisors David Patton, Miles O’Mailia and Theresa Cooper. They join from Merrill Lynch, where they previously managed $235 million in client assets and had $1.1 million in annual production.

Patton began his wealth management career more than 18 years ago at Edward Jones, after a career as a corporate executive. He later worked at Smith Barney and most recently, served as a senior vice president and senior financial advisor with Merrill Lynch for the past 10 years.

O’Mailia has nearly 40 years of experience in the wealth management industry, working at Prudential, Smith Barney and most recently Merrill Lynch. Throughout his career, he has worked with high net worth families, businesses and foundations. He also has experience with estate planning.

Cooper has over 10 years of experience in wealth management, most recently at Merrill Lynch working alongside Patton and O’Mailia. 

Patton Wealth Management is not a registered broker/dealer, and is independent of Raymond James Financial Services.

Sun Life Investment Management
Sun Life Investment Management has appointed Tom Murphy as head of affiliate development and business strategy. In this new role, Murphy will be responsible for driving the global business strategy for Sun Life Investment Management's third-party institutional business. 

He has over 25 years of global investment experience that includes building Mercer's European Outsourced Chief Investment Officer (OCIO) business, and most recently overseeing its US wealth business. 

Based in Sun Life Investment Management's Wellesley, Massachusetts office, he will join the team on September 4. Murphy will report to Steve Peacher, president, and he will be a member of the Sun Life Investment Management senior leadership team. 

Oppenheimer & Co
US wealth manager Oppenheimer & Co has appointed Hugh Williams as branch manager of Oppenheimer's Greensboro office.  This is the third branch manager appointment for the firm, following Bill Pomeroy in Asheville and Nelson Kelly in Winston-Salem.

Williams has more than three and a half decades of experience.  He has been a senior member of the Williams Monforton Watson Group of Oppenheimer & Co. Prior to Oppenheimer, Williams held positions at EF Hutton, Interstate Johnson Lane and Morgan Keegan. Before financial services, he served in the 422nd Civil Affairs Unit of the US Army Reserve.