Mega Merrill team managing $4.5 billion goes RIA
Ash Chopra launches Syon Capital and most of the 10 professionals joining him in the move were team members at Merrill.
Veteran financial adviser Ash Chopra, whose Merrill Lynch team managed $4.5 billion in San Francisco, has left the firm and launched Syon Capital, a registered investment adviser, which will use the custodian services of Charles Schwab & Co.
Most of the 10 professionals joining Chopra in the move were team members at Merrill, Syon said in a press release Thursday. Chopra had been with Merrill for 18 years.
“Within a wirehouse, our ability to brand ourselves as a multi-family office, and serve our clients as fiduciaries, was restricted,” Chopra, chief executive officer of Syon, said in the release. “As an independent organization, our family office model will enable us to serve our clients free from the constraints of a broker/dealer model.”
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