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June 28, 2017 at 05:26 PM
A group that includes 10 financial professionals with some $3.5 billion in client assets and about $5 million in yearly fees and commissions has moved to Raymond James’ employee channel in Honolulu, Hawaii, from UBS.
The group, which operates as the Kikawa Group of Raymond James, includes Managing Director Ronald Kikawa; Senior Vice Presidents, Investments Karen K.Y. Yasukawa; Gregg Matsuura; Wesley K. Yamamoto, CFP; First Vice Presidents, Investments Susanne M. Millard; and Paul Yamashita, CFA. Other team members are Senior Financial Planning Consultant Kelly Kimura; Senior Investment/Portfolio Analyst Reid Kobashigawa; Registered Client Service Associate Ashley Caneso; and Client Service Associate Lindsay Kikawa Yoshiki.
“After extensive due diligence, we selected Raymond James because the firm will allow us to serve our clients as fiduciaries and in the manner they have come to expect,” said Kikawa, in a statement.
“We have many institutional clients including foundations, endowments and a significant number of Taft-Hartley Joint Trusteed plans, so being able to advise them and keep the managers they trusted was very important to us,” he explained.
Kikawa started his financial services career in 1976 with E.F. Hutton in Honolulu. In 1988, he moved to Kemper Securities, joined Smith Barney in 1996 and began work at UBS in 2007. Yasukawa has over 30 years of experience in the industry, having begun her career with Aetna Financial Services in 1986.
Matsuura began his work in the business in 2000 at Smith Barney, where he teamed up with Kikawa and Yasukawa. Yamamoto started his career with Prudential Securities in 1996, spent 15 years with Wells Fargo and then joined the team at UBS in 2010.
Millard has almost 30 years of financial services experience, having begun her career with Merrill Lynch in 1978, joining Smith Barney in 2005 and moving with the team to UBS in 2007. Yamashita has worked in the business for nearly 30 years, having begun his career as an auditor at Union Bank of California (Los Angeles) and later joining UBS in 2008.
“We could not be more pleased to welcome Ron and Karen and their team to Raymond James,” said Rick Sanchez, West Coast regional director for RJA, in a statement. “The reputation of their practice, their years of experience and their client-first approach make them a great addition to our firm, as we continue to expand our footprint in the Western U.S. and in Hawaii, in particular.”
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Ameriprise Financial says that three advisors recently joined its employee channel from Morgan Stanley with $270 million in combined assets under management.
Kenneth Demps, Robert Dennis and Jay MacKenzie of Troy, Michigan, now report to Branch Manager Christopher Ohlert.
