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Nov 7 (Reuters) - The following financial services industryappointments were announced on Friday. To inform us of other jobchanges, email moves@thomsonreuters.com.
RBC WEALTH MANAGEMENT
The U.S. brokerage arm of the Royal Bank of Canada saidFriday it hired an Indianapolis, Indiana-based financial adviseraway from Bank of America's Merrill Lynch, its latest ina handful of hires being made before the end of the fiscal year.
CALIFORNIA STATE TEACHERS' RETIREMENT SYSTEM
The California State Teachers' Retirement System on Fridaynamed its first chief operating investment officer, completing arestructuring of the pension fund's investment branch.
CONSOLIDATED PRESS HOLDINGS LTD
Robert Rankin, 51, is set to join the Australia-basedinvestment holding company's as chief executive in January 2015.
OKAPI PARTNERS
The proxy solicitation and investor response firm said itappointed Tony Vecchio as a managing director.
KLEINWORT BENSON
The UK-based private banking and wealth management servicesprovider said it appointed Paul Surguy as senior discretionaryfund manager in the discretionary fund management (DFM) team.
BARCLAYS PLC
The British bank said it appointed five senior executives tostrengthen its investment banking division in Asia Pacific.
GAM HOLDING AG
The Swiss money manager said it appointed Lars Jaeger,Pierre-Yves Moix and Stephan Müller to its alternativeinvestments solutions team.
NATIXIS
The French bank named Laurent Depus as senior countrymanager, Japan and president & representative director ofNatixis Japan Securities Co Ltd. (Compiled by Manya Venkatesh and Ankit Ajmera in Bangalore)
