Baird has hired four veteran financial advisors within its private wealth management group in Chicago, IL, Baltimore, MD, and Edina, MN, with combined assets under management of $330 million.

In Chicago, the Andersen Group has $165 million in AuM and is comprised of Richard Andersen, senior vice president, and Eric Andersen, vice president.

Dan Phillips, senior vice president, joins Baird in Edina with $105 million in AuM, while further East in Baltimore John Huynh, vice president, joins with $60 million.

The Andersen Group and Phillips are latterly of UBS Financial Services; Huynh is formerly of Morgan Stanley Smith Barney (now Morgan Stanley Wealth Management).  

Last month, Baird bolstered its private wealth management business with the addition of seven veteran financial advisors from Wells Fargo at its newest office in Houston, TX.

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