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RBC Wealth Management Hires Complex Directors In San Francisco, Florida

Eliane Chavagnon Deputy Editor - Family Wealth Report 19 November 2013

RBC Wealth Management Hires Complex Directors In San Francisco, Florida

RBC Wealth Management has hired Kirstin Turner and Rob Spawn as complex directors in San Francisco, CA, and West Palm Beach, FL.

RBC Wealth Management has hired Kirstin Turner and Rob Spawn as complex directors in San Francisco, CA, and West Palm Beach, FL, respectively.

Turner joins RBC from Morgan Stanley Wealth Management, where she led the Houston, TX, branch. In that position, she managed 40 financial advisors with $5 billion in assets under management. 

At RBC, Turner will oversee some 60 financial advisors and 100 total employees serving clients in St Petersburg, Tampa, West Palm Beach, Naples, Fort Lauderdale and Palm Beach Gardens.

Meanwhile, Spawn joins from UBS, where he built the Las Vegas market, lead the Nevada-Utah and Houston complexes, and, most recently, was an associate complex director for Arizona/New Mexico.

Spawn will oversee approximately 70 financial advisors and 125 total employees serving clients in San Francisco, San Jose, Fresno, Monterey, El Dorado Hills, Walnut Creek, Santa Rosa and Oakland.

In other recent news at RBC Wealth Management, last week the firm recruited the Emmerling Wealth Management Group from UBS in Pittsburgh, PA. The Emmerling Wealth Management Group has approximately $300 million in assets under management and close to $2.2 million in combined production. 

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