People Moves
Summary Of Executive Moves In Global Wealth Management - October 2013

Merrill
Lynch Wealth Management hired an advisor team from UBS Private
Wealth
Management with over $1 billion in assets and over $11 million in
production.
The team -
comprised of Stephen Ruvituso, Lee Konopka, Robert Matluck and
Todd Stankiewicz
- joined Merrill’s White Plains, NY, complex. Meanwhile, Robert
Brust joined
Merrill’s Ponte Verda, FL, office from Wells Fargo.
Chicago,
IL-based investment management firm RiverNorth Capital Management
bolstered its
team with three new appointments. David Gifford joined RiverNorth
as an
investment analyst. Chris Lakumb is a portfolio specialist and
responsible for
supporting the investment management team and serving as a
liaison between
RiverNorth’s portfolio managers and investor base.
Paul Raskin
joined as a software developer, responsible for data operations
and the
development of core infrastructure and proprietary trading
systems. Gifford previously
worked as a senior trader on the equity desk at Wolverine Trading
for 11 years.
Lakumb has rejoined RiverNorth after relocating to California to
work for EverBank as a wealth
management specialist. Raskin has spent more than five years
writing financial
software, and most recently wrote futures and options trading
applications as a
software developer for RJ O’Brien & Associates.
Raymond
James recruited a team of advisors operating as TSD Capital Group
- an
independent firm in Athens, GA - to Raymond James Financial
Services, the
firm’s independent broker-dealer. The team includes Bill Schroth,
senior
investment advisor and TSD managing partner; Joseph Taylor,
senior investment
advisor and TSD managing director; Kip Dominy, senior investment
advisor and
TSD partner; financial advisors Bruce Kelly and Ken Hyatt; senior
registered
administrative assistant Leigh Anne Kane; and senior
administrative assistant
Anna Richardson.
The team
came to Raymond James from Wells Fargo Financial Advisors
Network.
Howard
Altman, co-chief executive and principal-in-charge of Rothstein
Kass’ financial
services group, was named as treasurer of the Managed Funds
Association.
Altman will
also serve for one year as a member of the MFA’s board of
directors.
Manulife
Asset Management hired Richard Bonzagni as a managing director
within the
firm’s global consultant relations team. He spent the last 13
years with
Cadence Capital Management, a Boston-based boutique investment
manager - most
recently as a principal with consultant relations, sales and
client service
responsibilities.
Kansas-based
Mariner Wealth Advisors, the independent wealth advisory firm,
brought in
Robert Swift as senior vice president of trust and estate
planning.
Swift has
25 years of industry experience and joins Mariner from Colorado
State Bank and Trust,
where he most recently served as senior vice president and trust
manager.