Andy Sieg, who has served as head of Merrill Lynch Wealth Administration for the final six years, is leaving the wirehouse, Financial institution of America introduced Thursday afternoon. Sieg will be a part of Citigroup later this 12 months to run its wealth administration division, reporting to CEO Jane Fraser, based on Bloomberg reviews.
BofA has named Lindsay Hans and Eric Schimpf to exchange Sieg as presidents and co-heads of Merrill, reporting to Financial institution of America Chair and CEO Brian Moynihan.
In its announcement, BofA gave no cause for Sieg’s departure, saying he led “the enterprise via a interval of sustained progress and modernization of know-how for advisors and purchasers.”
There’s been some latest shakeup in Merrill’s government management, with Hans not too long ago being appointed to guide Non-public Wealth Administration, succeeding Don Plaus, who introduced his retirement after 32 years on the agency.
Most not too long ago, Schimpf, who began at Merrill in 1994 as a monetary advisor, was serving as a division government for the Pacific Coast and co-head of the enterprise advisor growth program.
Collectively, Hans and Schimpf will oversee Merrill’s 25,000 workers and $2.8 trillion in consumer property.
The personnel shifts come after Merrill Wealth reported it boosted its advisor head rely 12 months over 12 months throughout all of its wealth administration companies, based on its This autumn 2022 earnings report. In the course of the earnings name in January, Sieg predicted the agency would proceed to see 3% to 4% common advisor progress per 12 months over the subsequent decade.
Merrill has gone via important change over the past a number of years, from being acquired by Financial institution of America throughout the 2008 monetary disaster to pumping the brakes on recruiting skilled advisors.
The agency returned to recruiting veteran advisors, though Sieg stated he wouldn’t get into bidding wars and chase advisors being wooed by outsized recruitment packages from rivals.
Sieg began out in public coverage in Washington, D.C., becoming a member of Merrill in 1992. Within the late Nineteen Nineties, he served as Merrill’s then-CEO Dave Komansky’s assistant.
“My older brother labored at Merrill Lynch, and the then-CEO was a good friend of my father’s and our households, coincidentally via Penn State—Invoice Schreyer,” Sieg stated in a latest interview on Mindy Diamond’s podcast. “So I felt a connection to Merrill, and I used to be additionally fascinated and all the time have been by markets. There’s no higher place to be concerned in monetary markets and the sensible aspect of economics then to hitch Merrill Lynch.”
From 2005 to 2009, Sieg served as a senior wealth administration government at Citigroup, after which returned to Merrill in 2009, after its acquisition by BofA.