"There is a steadily growing need across the country for entrepreneurial advisors who can offer customized solutions to clients with complex financial lives and challenges," according to Chris Randazzo, president of Private Wealth Management for Rockefeller. "Rockefeller is meeting this need in an increasing number of locations with the industry's finest advisors like CM Private Wealth."
The firm's latest recruiting news comes two months after a $400 million group joined it from Morgan Stanley near Phoenix. Rockefeller has 40 teams, 25 of which came on board in 2020. The firm's advisors work with about $50 billion of total client assets.
Rockefeller CEO Greg Fleming is the former president of Morgan Stanley Wealth Management and Morgan Stanley Investment Management.
Before joining Morgan Stanley in 2010, Fleming was president and chief operating officer of Merrill Lynch, from 2007 to 2009, and previously ran Merrill Lynch's Global Investment Banking business; he joined Merrill as an investment banker in 1992.