People Moves
HighTower Grows New York HQ With $320 Million Former Merrill Team

LCK Wealth Management - formerly part of Merrill Lynch Wealth Management’s private banking and investment group - has joined Chicago's HighTower in New York.
LCK Wealth Management - formerly part of Merrill Lynch Wealth
Management’s private banking and investment group - has joined
the HighTower
partnership of firms in New
York.
LCK Wealth Management provides wealth management and investment
services
for families, trusts, foundations, charitable organizations and
other
non-profit entities.
The firm is led by Laurie Kamhi, who joins HighTower
as a partner and managing director. Also on the team, which
manages
$320 million in client assets, is senior financial
analyst Christine Torrey and senior private wealth associate
Karman Tong.
Kamhi has more than 30 years of experience in investing,
private wealth management and institutional trading and sales.
Only last week did HighTower
add The Andriole Group to its partnership, having also recruited
Melville, NY-based Klein Wealth
Management two weeks prior. LCK is the 41st team to
transition
to the HighTower partnership since the firm’s inception in 2008.
HighTower is an advisor-owned financial services company serving high net worth and institutional clients. The company is headquartered in Chicago, IL, but has corporate centers in New York and San Francisco, CA, as well as other offices across the US.