Janney Montgomery Scott, the Philadelphia, PA-based wealth management and investment banking firm, has taken on an eight-strong advisor team in West Hartford, CT.

The team is comprised of Robert Black, Ned Manuel and Ed Blumenthal – all senior vice presidents of wealth management; Bob Borkowski, vice president of wealth management; Malcolm Berman, account executive; Samantha Prokop, private client assistant; Jennifer Roth, a registered private client assistant; and Amy Wells, a private client assistant.

The team is latterly of Merrill Lynch - where they spent the past nine years - and oversees some $900 million in client assets.

In August, Janney appointed Peter Price as senior vice president/complex manager of the firm’s Maine and New Hampshire complex, while earlier in the month it added former Morgan Stanley senior manager Vincent Crognale to its Greenville, DL, branch office as first vice president/wealth management.