Tuesday, 2nd December 2008

 

Convergent snaps up $7bn Citigroup wealth teams

Convergent Wealth Advisors has snapped up two wealth management teams from Citigroup’s institutional-clients group with combined assets under management of about $7bn (€4.8bn), according to a report in InvestmentNews.

George Dunn and Peter Dunne, who had been with the US financial services giant for more than two decades, joined Convergent on Friday in its Washington office as managing directors.

David Mattia, an 18-year veteran of Citigroup, and Lori Van Dusen, who had been with the company for 21 years, also joined the wealth manager last week in its Rochester office as managing directors, the InvestmentNews report added.

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Mayfair goes Modern

Sebastian + Barquet, a three-year old design gallery based in New York and Chelsea, is opening a new gallery showing museum quality pieces in Mayfair next month, the first in London to focus on international modernism from the 1940s to the 1960s. Its opening exhibition is dedicated to American modernist design and is curated by celebrated architect Eric Parry.

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New York financier backs social networking portal for millionaires

Frank DeRose, the New York financier in charge of Furrata Capital, plans to invest at least $1m (€791,922) of his own money into Total Prestige, a 15-year-old worldwide social-networking company aimed at establishing an exclusive online community for millionaires, according to a report in New York Post.

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