Individuals strikes: RBC, DPL and Prime Capital make senior hires
Shawn Bernhard, advanced director for the Texas South area at RBC Wealth Management.
Meanwhile, DPL Financial Partners provides two annuity executives and Prime Capital Financial hires a Mid-Atlantic retirement plan marketing consultant
RBC Wealth Management has employed a Raymond James department supervisor to steer its Texas South advanced, considered one of a number of senior appointments this week as DPL Financial Partners added two executives and Prime Capital Financial employed a retirement plan marketing consultant.
RBC names new Texas South advanced director
Shawn Bernhard has joined RBC Wealth Management – U.S. as advanced director for the Texas South area, the agency stated Oct. 23. She will work with monetary advisors in Texas and Louisiana.
Bernhard has greater than 25 years of expertise in monetary providers, most just lately serving as managing director and department supervisor of Raymond James’ workplace in Tucson, Arizona. Before that, she held a number of management posts at UBS Wealth Management, the place she oversaw main bourses in Arizona.
The rent comes after a 12 months through which RBC has been pulling sizable advisor teams away from UBS.
“She understands that if you empower advisors with the precise assets and help, everybody thrives – advisors and purchasers alike,” stated Scott Skinner, RBC’s Mountain South divisional director.
Bernhard stated the agency’s tradition drew her in. “What drew me to RBC is the agency’s genuinely collaborative, advisor-centric tradition and the way in which everybody works collectively to assist advisors and their purchasers attain their targets,” she stated.
She holds the Certified Financial Planner and Certified Exit Planning Advisor designations, and beforehand chaired the Women’s Wealth Advisors of Arizona.
DPL creates two management roles as property close to $7 billion
DPL Financial Partners, the Louisville, Kentucky-based platform for commission-free annuities, has named Mark Forman head of expertise and Kendal Wetzel head of gross sales technique and operations.
The agency introduced the brand new hires and positions because it reviews approaching $7 billion in property below administration.
Commission-free annuities carry no gross sales fee, a construction that supporters say reduces conflicts of curiosity for fee-based fiduciary advisors. DPL has been constructing instruments for that market, together with a portfolio-level tool for reviewing legacy annuities aimed toward RIAs transferring fee books to charges.
Forman will oversee service for DPL’s member advisors, companions and shoppers. He beforehand led expertise initiatives at Jefferson National, the place he labored with DPL founder and CEO David Lau, and later at Nationwide Financial. He then spent practically six years as chief advertising and marketing officer at RetireOne, labored as a fractional CMO by Intention.ly and was most just lately CMO at Optifino.
Wetzel will run gross sales operations and enablement, the very perform she targeted on as vice chairman at Jackson National Life Distributors. Earlier, she was director of RIA distribution at Allianz Life.
“Mark and Kendal each know the RIA market nicely and convey experience tailoring annuity and insurance coverage options to its distinctive wants,” Lau stated.
“I’m keen to assist construct the techniques and utilities that may help that momentum as advisor and client demand will increase,” Wetzel stated.
Prime Capital expands retirement plan consulting within the Mid-Atlantic
Overland Park, Kansas-based Prime Capital Financial, which entered into a recapitalization deal with Carlyle’s Global Credit platform this summer, has employed Ekaterina “Katie” Sheliga as a retirement plan marketing consultant to develop its presence within the Mid-Atlantic.
Sheliga has greater than 15 years of expertise in monetary providers and retirement. She was most just lately gross sales director of strategic accounts at PCS Retirement, the place she managed relationships with nationwide broker-dealers, RIAs and wealth corporations.
She beforehand held management roles on the American Retirement Association and The Standard, and she or he started her profession at Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. At Prime Capital, she’s going to deal with relationships with employers, advisors and facilities of affect.
Jania Stout, whom Prime Capital brought aboard to lead its retirement practice in 2024, pointed to the breadth of Sheliga’s background. “She’s labored in consulting, recordkeeping and strategic partnerships, so she understands how the items match collectively,” stated Stout, president of retirement and wellness.
“I’m wanting to return to working immediately with employers and their workers, serving to extra individuals construct a path towards a retirement they’ll look ahead to,” Sheliga stated.
Sheliga can also be Northeast regional chief for We Inspire Promote Network, which helps ladies within the retirement business.
