The latest senior moves in asset and wealth management from across North America.

Raymond James
Raymond James has welcomed financial advisor Jeff Little to Raymond James & Associates - the firm’s employee advisor channel - in Gadsden.

Operating as JL Wealth Management of Raymond James, Little is joined by branch associate and financial advisor trainee, Brock Little, and senior client service associate, Lynn Young. The team previously managed about $156 million in client assets at Wells Fargo and serve a variety of clients including business owners, families and retirees.

Little has spent more than 30 years in the financial services industry, beginning his career at Merrill Lynch before moving to Wells Fargo in 2008. A graduate of Jacksonville State, Little holds a bachelor of science degree in finance. He has also earned the professional designation of Chartered Retirement Planning CounselorSM (CRPC®) from the College of Financial Planning. 

Across all of Raymond James’ businesses in the US, Canada and overseas, the US-listed firm has a total of $1.21 trillion of client assets.

BNY Mellon
BNY Mellon Wealth Management has named Karen Sugihara as regional fiduciary manager. In this role, she will lead the fiduciary business for California, as well as manage the delivery and fiduciary oversight of advisory-based services to clients. Sugihara is based in San Francisco and reports to Robert Kricena, president, West Region.

Sugihara brings three decades of trust and estates experience in private banking, fintech, legal research and law practice to the role. Prior to BNY Mellon Wealth Management, she spent eight years at Wells Fargo where she most recently served as a senior regional fiduciary manager and oversaw its trust business in Northern California, which is the largest trust office within their wealth management business.

She served as a senior wealth planning strategist at Wells Fargo, as well as co-founding a start-up company that provides custom websites and legal content for lawyers and law firms. She has also been their general counsel and vice president of content development. Sugihara has worked at LexisNexis and as a trust and estates attorney at various prominent law firms serving high net worth clients.