As a part of this expansion, Simon Smales and Sean Costello has been appointed as directors in the firm’s London-based UK private client wealth management team led by Philip Harris.

In their new role at RBC Wealth Management, Smales and Costello will concentrate on their respective private client management expertise.

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Previously, Smales spent the past decade at HSBC Private Bank where he was a director responsible for a portfolio of UK private clients. He also worked closely with HSBC’s global banking and markets team.

Costello joins from Barclays where he was a vice president in the ultra high net worth and family office group working in London and New York. Prior to this, he worked for Lehman Brothers and Morgan Stanley in New York.

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