A Massachusetts-based group of 5 advisors managing about $800 million in property is becoming a member of Raymond James’ unbiased channel from Commonwealth Monetary Community.
The advisors embody Jonathan Wolff, Scott Schutte, Justin Turcotte, Jack Wolff and Evan Mattern, who created Lightship Wealth Methods by way of Raymond James’ unbiased channel; three consumer service associates will be a part of them.
The staff is predicated in Newton Decrease Falls, about 15 miles exterior of Boston, and works with quite a lot of shoppers, together with enterprise homeowners, high-net-worth people and households. In keeping with SEC data, founder Jonathan Wolff entered the trade in 1983 at Northwestern Mutual and joined Commonwealth in 2006, the place he labored till this week’s transfer to Raymond James.
“Finally, the agency’s modern expertise, its banking and lending capabilities and big selection of high-net-worth choices fits our shoppers completely,” Wolff stated of the reasoning behind shifting to Raymond James.
In Fiscal 12 months 2025, Raymond James Chief Monetary Officer Paul Shoukry will succeed Paul Reilly as CEO, changing into the fourth within the agency’s historical past (till then, he’ll function interim president). Reilly will stay on the board of administrators as govt chair. The transfer was a part of a broader “multi-year succession planning course of.”
COO Jeff Dowdle will go away his position in October, and Non-public Consumer Group President Scott Curtis will take his place (Dowdle will turn into vice chair). Tash Elwyn heads Raymond James’ worker advisor channel and can transfer into Curtis’s position.
Jim Bunn, the present president of world equities and funding banking, will turn into president of the capital markets phase. The brand new worker advisor channel president shall be introduced later this 12 months.
Raymond James has about 8,700 advisors throughout a number of affiliation fashions, with roughly $1.38 trillion in whole consumer property.
