Merrill Lynch veteran Don Plaus was due to
Plaus's unexpected news was announced internally on Friday to Merrill's roughly 200 teams of private wealth advisors, a Merrill spokesperson said late Friday. The bank did not issue a press release or statement about the return and declined to further comment or provide interviews.
It's the latest surprise news from the giant Wall Street bank.
The 60-year-old Plaus had planned to leave Merrill Wealth Management after March 31. But
When he announced his retirement, Plaus was the head of the Private Wealth Management, International and Institutional groups at Merrill Wealth Management.
Parent company Bank of America named Lindsay Hans and Eric Schimpf
Hans was
Prior to that, Hans was a division executive for six years, for the Mid-Atlantic and then for the Northeast. Schimpf was formerly the Pacific Coast division executive and co-head of Enterprise Advisor Development.
Sieg
"Andy Sieg was very much the ever visible public face of Merrill, so his departure is a real shocker," recruiter Mark Elzweig said in an email.
With Plaus still on board, the Wall Street bank will regain a leader with more than
Plaus joined Merrill in
Plaus grew the total number of PWM clients by over 30% and client balances by 46% during the past five years, and
There is no clear timeline on when Plaus will actually retire, the spokesperson said. There is also no replacement yet for the role Schimpf vacated.
In a
"The assignments that I was asked to take on, and the places that I was asked to go, weren't always places that I ever thought or planned to go to," he said.
"Your career is almost like watching your home being built. Everything starts on a foundation and it just sort of moves up."