The latest senior moves, appointments and adjustments in wealth management roles across North America.

Wealth Consulting Group
Las Vegas-headquartered RIA Wealth Consulting Group, which has $5 billion in AuM, has hired Talley LĂ©ger as chief market strategist.

LĂ©ger, who has more than 25 years of experience in financial services institutions, previously served as managing director of equity strategy at Raymond James and the chief equity strategist at Invesco. He founded Macro Vision Research and served in strategist roles at Barclays Capital, ISI, Merrill Lynch, RBC Capital Markets, and Brown Brothers Harriman.

Among his duties, Léger will serve on WCG’s investment committee.

Schroders
UK-listed wealth manager Schroders has made a number of promotions in its Americas client group.

Nicolas Giedzinski, previously head of wealth, US offshore, will ascend to the role of head of US family offices and offshore. He will dually report to Phil Middleton, CEO Americas and Gonzalo Binello, head of Latin America and US offshore. 

Among other changes, Alberto Vazquez, formerly the sales director, will now serve as the head of offshore brokerage sales. Ever Zambrano has been promoted to head of discretionary clients, and Mauricio Calmet will assume the role of client director, US offshore.

Raymond James
Financial advisors Taryn Moll and Peter Henziak have joined Raymond James at its employee advisor channel in Irvine, California.

As Moll Henziak & Associates of Raymond James, the team includes client service associate Rebecca Jonas-Engel and senior registered client service associates Jiangyun “Julie” Dale and Matt Kearns. 

The team, which came from Merrill Lynch where they managed about $600 million in client assets, serves corporate executives, families and individuals.

Petra Funds Group
Petra Funds Group, an independent private funds administrator, has hired two people in its business development team: Richard Harris and John Manning.

Harris is joining as managing director and head of business development. Manning has been named senior director of business development. Harris brings over 25 years of experience in the financial services industry, most recently serving as MD at HSBC Securities. He has also served in senior roles at UBS and Range Global; he began his career at Bear Stearns where he helped lead risk management of the firm's NYSE floor trading operations.

Manning brings over 13 years of experience in business development and customer relationship management, including six years working with private equity firms and limited partners. He has held a variety of sales and relationship management positions at Salesforce, Catalant, Riverstone Holdings and JP Morgan Asset Management.