RBC Wealth Management has added five financial advisors - latterly of Morgan Stanley - to its Pittsburgh, PA, office, according to Ken Ross, senior managing director at the Pittsburgh complex.  

Russell Sherred, Pamela Pasterick, Ken Kuska, Kathleen Corrales and Matthew Lawrence together have  $380 million in assets under management and generate production of $2.8 million.

Meanwhile, at the end of March RBC Wealth Management brought in Michael Melton as branch director at its San Diego, CA, office.

The move expanded the Canadian bank’s presence in Southern California, which includes offices in Beverly Hills, Century City, Escondido, La Jolla, Long Beach, Newport Beach, Pasadena and Manhattan Beach.

In the US, RBC Wealth Management operates as a division of RBC Capital Markets and has over $235 billion of assets under administration, with some 2,000 advisors operating across 42 states.