First Foundation Bank, the Irvine, CA-based investment and wealth planning firm,  appointed Stuart Bailey as vice president and private banker. Bailey most recently served as regional president for Sunrise Bank in Palm Desert, CA.

Manulife Asset Management named Jacqui Allard as president of its Canadian operations. Allard added this new position to her role as global chief operating officer for the company. She is charged with building Manulife's asset management business in Canada.

Sandy Cove Advisors, the Massachusetts-based multi-family office, appointed David Duval as a partner. Duval has 30 years of financial, administrative and investment management experience to the role and will be working with high net worth clients on wealth creation, transfer and preservation.

Florida-headquartered Gibraltar Private Bank & Trust appointed former JP Morgan banker Jumah Hamilton as an assistant vice president and private banker.

First California Bank, a subsidiary of First California Financial Group, promoted Stacy Peterson to the newly-created role of market president. Peterson joined the company in 2009 as senior vice president and regional manager in commercial lending.

The wealth management arm of Australian banking group Macquarie appointed its first regional manager for Eastern Canada, recruiting him from the investment business of Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce. Tom Williams joins Macquarie Private Wealth from CIBC Wood Gundy, where he had spent 16 years as a non-producing branch manager.

Gary Reamey, country leader for Canada at Edward Jones, steps down from his post at the end of 2011. He will be replaced by David Lane. Reamey retires from the role after a 35-year career but will remain a senior partner with the firm and a member of the senior management team until the end of 2012.

ThinkEquity, the subsidiary of Panmure Gordon that provides wealth and asset management services, appointed Bruce Nollenberger as president of the asset and wealth management division.  Nollenberger joined the company after selling his firm, San Francisco-based Nollenberger Capital Partners, to Sterne Agee early this year.

StanCorp Investment Advisors, a StanCorp Financial Group subsidiary, named Kristie Cahill as senior investment counselor for its San Francisco office. Cahill was most recently a registered client service associate at Morgan Stanley Smith Barney.

BlackRock added Marco Antonio Slim Domit, son of multibillionaire Carlos Slim, to its board of directors. Slim Domit is the chairman and chief executive of Grupo Financiero Inbursa, a Mexico-based holding company that provides banking among other services - a role he has held since 1997.

Northern Trust appointed Marie Dzanis, latterly of BlackRock iShares, as a senior vice president and head of ETF sales and servicing. In her new role Dzanis is based at Northern Trust’s Chicago headquarters.

Washington Trust Wealth Management brought in two senior executives to its Wellesley, MA-based division, Weston Financial. Joining as president and chief operating officer of Weston is Jake Filoon. He comes to the firm after 20 years at Bank of America, where he held various roles including in wealth management. Washington also appointed James Scanlan as director and planning officer, responsible for business development and financial planning at Weston. He was previously a partner in an independent wealth management firm.

Sidley Austin, the law firm, added six members to its executive committee and three to its management group. Joining the Chicago executive committee were Brian Fahrney and Craig Griffith. Jennifer Hagle joined the Los Angeles executive team.

Matthew Sheridan steps in for both Singapore and Hong Kong. Sheridan joined the company in 2000. Susan Stone entered the Chicago and New York teams. Stone is co-head of the firm's insurance and financial services group, a global coordinator of the insurance and reinsurance disputes practice and a partner since 1995. Effie Vasilopoulos stepped in for Hong Kong. Vasilopoulos joined the company in 2003 and is head of the investment funds practice in Asia.

The management committee has also been expanded, bringing the current count to 11 members. Larry Barden and Larry Nyhan are now part of the Chicago management committee. Mark Hopson joined the Washington DC management committee. Hopson has been a partner since 1992.

KPMG appointed Lynne Doughtie as vice chair for advisory and Carl Carande as national managing partner for advisory. Doughtie most recently served as national managing partner, the position Carande is assuming.

Treliant Risk Advisors appointed Waldo Abbot as general manager and head of its New York office. Before Treliant, he was the chief executive of BNP Paribas Fortis in New York.

Highland Capital Brokerage, the insurance and wealth management firm, appointed David Braun as managing principal of the Los Angeles branch. Braun previously worked at the life insurance unit of Wells Fargo and served wholesaling roles at Travelers and Reliastar.

AEPG Wealth Strategies, the wealth management unit of New Jersey-based American Economic Planning Group, appointed Ray Hawkins as vice president of financial and estate planning. Hawkins most recently served as a financial advisor at AXA Advisors.

Cary Street Partners, the Virginia-based wealth management and investment banking firm, appointed William Akmentins as director of research. Akmentins was previously the director of public investments at Southern Methodist University.

JP Morgan hired Jasmine Abouzied, latterly of Goldman Sachs Group, as an executive director and private banker at its New York office.

Citi appointed Nathan Sheets as global head of international economics within its investment research and analysis division. Sheets joined from the Federal Reserve Board in Washington DC where he was director of the division of international finance. He also previously acted as the Fed chairman's international advisor at the onset of the European financial crisis in 2010.  

Hynes, Himmelreich, Glennon and Company, a wealth management firm based in Darien, CT, named Paul Papapostolou as senior advisor with immediate effect. Papapostolou was most recently a managing director for Joel Isaacson & Co in New York.

Soros Fund Management, which legendary investor George Soros recently decided to convert to a family office, named Scott Bessent as chief investment officer, while Jonathan Soros, son of George, stepped down from day-to-day management at the firm. Bessent took over from Keith Anderson, who resigned in connection with the decision to turn the firm into a family office. Anderson, who joined the firm in 2008, left to seek other opportunities.

BNY Mellon hired Rod Riggins as sales director for its wealth management business in the Texas region, a newly-created role in an important market for the firm. Riggins is responsible for new business development and connecting high net worth families and foundations with BNY Mellon’s services. He reports to Erich Smith, executive director within the wealth management business.

First Foundation Bank, the private banking and wealth management firm, named Carl Vonderau as vice president and private banker, charged with expanding its new office in San Diego. Vonderau joined from San Diego Private Bank.

New York-listed First Republic hired a private banker specializing in the entertainment industry in Southern California. Kathy Attaii was appointed as managing director in Century City. She joined from Comerica Bank in Los Angeles, where she was a private banker.

Bank of America restructured its wealth management teams in the US following the departure of its former head, Sallie Krawcheck. Greg Franks, who had been the director of wealth management's western division, retired. Riley Etheridge will lead a team of four other managers that stretch across the country and focus on each client base. Etheridge, who is a regional head in the private banking and investment group, reports to John Thiel, who was put in charge of the Merrill Lynch brokerage business in April this year.

The 11 regional wealth management heads are: Brett Bernard, Mid East;

Chris Dupuy, Pacific Northwest; Linda Houston, New England;

Paul Lambert, Mid America; Bill Lorenz, Mid Atlantic;  Jeff Markham,Greater Texas;

Sabina McCarthy, NYC Metro; Don Plaus, South Atlantic; Jeff Ransdell, Southeast.

Citi Private Bank added to its Phoenix, AZ private banking office with three appointments. Michelle DeJean Schechner stepped in as managing director and private banker, effective in November. Schechner was most recently a senior vice president and private client advisor at US Trust's Phoenix branch.

Canada-based CI Investments appointed portfolio manager Robert Swanson at its Cambridge Advisors investment subsidiary. Swanson has more than 27 years of investment experience and previously served as lead portfolio manager at Fidelity Investments.

Citi Private Bank appointed Ida Liu as managing director of the newly-created North America Asia clients group. Liu is a senior private banker based in Citi's New York office.

First Republic Bank named Gregg Palmer as managing director, wealth advisor for its private wealth management office in San Diego. Palmer moves from Wells Fargo where he worked for 15 years.

CAIS, a New York-based alternatives investment platform provider, appointed Landon Stone as chief operating officer and general counsel, responsible for legal, compliance and operational matters. Stone, who is also a member of the firm’s broker-dealer CAIS Capital, joined from Merrill Lynch, where he was a director in the alternative investment origination and product management group.

BNY Mellon appointed Fred Young from Glenmede as managing director of sales for investment management, within its wealth management business, in the Boston region. At Glenmede Young headed up marketing and sales for two of the firm’s New Jersey offices.

Bank of America added 180 Merrill Edge financial solutions advisors in New Jersey and 50 in Central New England including Boston and Hartford. BofA’s Merrill Edge service targets preferred customers, with between $50,000 and $250,000 of investable assets.

Connecticut-based Fieldpoint Private Bank & Trust brought in a marketing veteran, Michael White, who has worked for the likes of Bank of America, Citigroup and Morgan Stanley, to head up its branding efforts. Michael White joined the firm at its Greenwich, CT headquarters.

Aurion Capital Management, the Canadian investment manager, appointed David Doritty as vice president for business development.  Doritty most recently served as vice chairman at Dundee Capital Markets. Before that, he was an equity sales specialist for the institutional unit of National Bank of Canada.

Financial Symmetry, the North Carolina-based wealth planning firm, appointed Grace Rooth as operations specialist. Rooth joined the company in October 2009 as a financial intern.

Cook Associates Executive Search, the human resources firm that specializes in top-level management searches, named Harry Wilson as managing director. Wilson joined from Freddie Mac where he was director of executive recruiting since 2006. Prior to that, he was senior vice president and managing director of executive recruiting at Wells Fargo.

Tompkins Financial Advisors promoted Laurie Haelen to managing director of the Western New York division.  Haelen has more than 20 years of wealth management and financial services experience and most recently served as senior vice president and director of investment services.

John Mack stepped down from his role as chairman of Morgan Stanley and leaves the board of the Wall Street firm by year-end. He was replaced as chairman by chief executive James Gorman.

Three senior Goldman Sachs Private Wealth Management advisors left the US firm to create an independent San Francisco boutique, called Seven Post Investment Office. Ali Bastani, who spent 13 years at Goldman Sachs, Eldridge Gray, and Charles Wyman, 15 years in the brokerage industry, started the new firm on 2 September.

Citi Private Bank appointed Daniel Batista as managing director and ultra high net worth banker for the New Jersey office. Batista is from JP Morgan where he served as managing director and private banker in Morristown, New Jersey. Prior to that, he was a financial consultant with Merrill Lynch.

Morgan Stanley appointed Vincent Reinhart as chief US economist in New York.   Reinhart stepped in from the American Enterprises Institute in Washington where he was a resident scholar. Prior to that, he held several key positions at the US Federal Reserve.

Advent Software appointed Asiff Hirji to its board of directors. Hirji has over 20 years of experience in operations and technology in the investment management industry. He has been a partner at the private investment firm TPG Capital since 2007, prior to which he was president of TD Ameritrade Holding Company.

Sunbelt-based BBVA Compass, part of New York-listed BBVA, appointed Tom Tuter as market president for Northern California. Tuter assumes his new role after serving ten years in commercial banking at Bank of America.

The Hartford, the insurance and wealth management services company, hired Michael Gregg as head of strategic markets for its wealth management business, joining from AXA Global Distributors in Paris, where he served as managing director of a unit that distributes guaranteed investment products through third-parties in Europe and Asia.

UBS Wealth Management Americas hired advisor duo Jonathan Mitchell and Nick Abdy in Arizona. Mitchell and Abdy are part of the Tuscon, Arizona office and report directly to Charlie Cajero, the branch manager. They moved from Wells Fargo.

Former DundeeWealth ultra-high-net-worth private banker Diane Blondeau moved to Citi Private Bank Canada. Blondeau is now part of a team of private bankers overseeing at least C$25 million ($25. 3 million) in liquid assets.

Dynasty Financial Partners, which provides software platforms for independent advisors, hired Timothy Bello as a partner and director of strategic implementation. Bello joined from SkyBridge Capital, a New York-based alternative asset manager, where he served as head of global platforms.

Citi Private Bank appointed Robert Laughlin as managing director and head of Citi Trust, North America. He joined from Neuberger Berman where he was chairman and president of the trust unit, which caters to high net worth individuals and small- to mid-sized institutional clients.

Exhilway, the Canadian wealth management group, is setting to hire 7,000 staff in India this year. The hires will mostly be done via major social networking media like Facebook and Twitter. The move is in line with its strategic expansion plan for the Asian country.

Houston-based US Capital Advisors hired of Bill Hurt and Titus Harris as managing directors. Harris and Hurt manage approximately $350 million in client assets. They joined from Sanders Morris Harris, the broker-dealer arm of The Edelman Financial Group.

First Republic Bank, the California-headquartered private bank and wealth management firm, named Matt Krusko as a managing director and wealth advisor at its private wealth operation in New York. Krusko joined from Bernstein Global Wealth Management where he served as a vice president and financial advisor.

New York-based Signature Bank appointed a new six-strong private client banking team – all from HSBC – and three further private client staff members.Joseph Alexander and John Kourkoutis were named group director and senior vice president of the new team, which will be based in the firm’s private client banking office in Long Island City, Queens, NY.

Alexander was latterly branch manager and vice president at HSBC at the Long Island City location and has also spent 18 years at JP Morgan Chase, 15 of which were spent as branch manager and vice president. Kourkoutis' banking career spans more than two decades. During his 13 years at HSBC Bank USA/Republic National Bank, he was vice president and business banking market manager for Queens and the Bronx.

Genworth Financial Wealth Management appointed Myra Rothfeld as chief marketing officer, joining from Citibank where she led the development of a new advisor channel for high net worth clients.

Barclays Wealth appointed Michele Huff Powell as director and investment representative for the Dallas branch. Powell joined from US Trust, Bank of America Private Wealth Management, where she served as senior wealth advisor.

Citi Private Bank named Russ Labrasca as managing director and head of the Houston office. Labrasca joined from Wells Fargo Private Bank where he was a senior managing director responsible for the Southern region.

Washington Wealth Management, which was launched in December last year, named Scott Wilson – latterly of UBS - as its new western regional director as part of its ongoing growth strategy. Wilson is based in San Diego, California, and responsible for developing branch offices in the area, as well as in Palm Springs, California, and Denver, Colorado.

UBS appointed Edinardo Figueiredo as desk head for its ultra high net worth business in Brazil, recruiting him from Banco Itau. Figueiredo had worked at Banco Itau for five years, most recently as head of Itau's private banking operations in Europe and chief executive of the bank in Switzerland, based in Zurich.

Lexington Wealth Management moved its office in Massachusetts from the New England Executive Park in Burlington, to Lexington. Along with the move the firm appointed Karen Van Voorhis as client relationship manager, based at the new branch at 12 Waltham Street.

Atlantic Trust appointed Paulina Mejia as managing director and senior wealth strategist for the New York office. Mejia brings 10 years of trusts and estates practice and advisory experience to her new role, having specialized in high net worth clients and tax-exempt institutions.

Harris myCFO, the US-based family office advisory unit of BMO Financial Group, appointed Francine Lee as director. Lee was previously the senior vice president and head of family wealth advisory services for the Americas at HSBC Private Bank.

Evercore Wealth Management, the financial services firm that caters to high net worth clients, opened a new office in Minneapolis and named six new partners there. Martha Pomerantz, Julie Krieger, Pam Lundell, Jason Anderson, Stacie Price, and Michael Seppelt joined from Lowry Hill, a Minneapolis-based private asset management firm and part of Wells Fargo Bank. They report directly to Jeff Maurer, the chief executive based in New York.

Carson Wealth Management Group, the Omaha-based firm, was named Brett Carson as director of research and Aaron Foster as a financial analyst. Carson spent the last 11 years as an equity analyst at GARP Research, where he specialized in studies on mid-to-small cap companies.

Peoples Financial Advisors, the wealth management unit of Peoples Bank, named Michael Gheen as vice president and retirement plan manager. Gheen joined from Heartland Financial USA where he served as business development officer for retirement plan services for five months.

Société Générale named Michael Haigh as managing director and global head of commodities research at its cross asset research division, based in New York. Haigh previously worked for the company in global research between 2007 and 2009. He joined from Standard Chartered Bank in Singapore, where he was global head of commodities research.

Western Asset Management, the fixed interest specialist subsidiary of Legg Mason, saw the departure of fund manager Dipankar Shewaram. Head of global credit Mike Buchanan and Prashant Chandran, global head of derivatives, took over portfolio management responsibilities.

San Francisco-based Wealth Management Associates brought in Andrew Eakin as a financial professional, focusing on business development. Eakin was most recently a planning associate at Legacy Capital Group.

City National Bank appointed Ralph Dickman as vice president and senior private client advisor for its San Jose regional center.  Dickman joined from Wells Fargo Private Bank where he served as a private banker.

BNY Mellon reorganized the charitable gifts services division of its wealth management business. Sally Rubin was appointed as director of charitable gifts services investments. She joins the firm after 12 years in the institutional investment industry, to lead the charitable gifts investment team, and with overall responsibility for the division’s relationships.

Robert W Baird hired a branch manager and six financial advisors in the US. Thomas Parkins, previously a principal and director of new business development at Kenilworth Asset Management, is now vice president and non-producing branch manager for the Kansas office.

The company also named three advisors to its Sioux City, Denver, and Charlotte branches. David Silverberg and Jeff Pedersen of the Silverberg Pedersen Group joined as senior vice president and vice president respectively. The duo came from Morgan Stanley. Joining the Denver branch are Dominic Capuano and Timothy Butler of the Capuano Butler Group as senior vice presidents.

William McCollum and Travis McCollum of the McCullom Group are now director and vice president respectively of the Charlotte branch at Robert W Baird, previously of Wells Fargo Advisors.

The Dreyfus Corporation appointed Christopher Sheldon as chief investment officer, replacing Phil Maisano, who retired earlier this year. Sheldon joined BNY Mellon in 1995 and was most recently managing director of the firm’s wealth management business on the West Coast.

RBC Wealth Management named Samir Dewan as chief operating officer and head of business development for the emerging markets, a Singapore-based role in which he oversees strategy, operations, overall business management and strategic initiatives for this side of the business. Dewan reports to Barend Janssens, the Canadian bank’s head of emerging markets, and Ingrid Versnel, global head of operations and technology.