By Corrie Driebusch
A financial adviser who serves mainly clients in Central and
South America has left Barclays PLC (BCS) to join RBC Wealth
Management's international unit.
Ileana Platt is now working for RBC Wealth Management's
International Advisor Group-USA in Miami as an international
financial adviser.
About a third of her high-net-worth clients are located in the
U.S. and the rest reside mainly in Mexico, Panama and Peru, but who
seek to make U.S. investments.
Prior to joining RBC in March, Ms. Platt worked for Barclays and
Credit Suisse Group AG (CS), where she said she managed about $240
million in client assets and generated annual revenues of more than
$2 million.
Ms. Platt said she left Barclays after about year when the firm
decided to pull out of many overseas markets.
"My Latin America client base was so important to me I needed to
find a place where there was true commitment to the area," said Ms.
Platt. "The high-net-worth individual in Latin America is obviously
growing and they're looking to diversify their wealth outside their
country."
A spokeswoman for Barclays didn't immediately return a request
for comment.
The international division of RBC Wealth Management serves
high-net-worth and ultra-high-net-worth clients world-wide from
offices in New York, Houston, Miami, San Diego, Seattle and
Wilmington, Del. It includes 29 financial advisers.
Write to Corrie Driebusch at corrie.driebusch@wsj.com
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