Manager of Merrill Lynch's flagship Manhattan branch walks

A source at Merrill confirmed Racquel Oden's departure but gave no reasons for her leaving.
DEC 20, 2017

Racquel Oden, managing director in charge of Merrill Lynch's flagship Manhattan branch overseeing 200 advisers, left the firm on Wednesday. A source at Merrill Lynch confirmed Ms. Oden's departure but gave no reasons for her leaving. She was promoted in March 2016 to manage Merrill's Fifth Avenue office, replacing Jeffrey Tucker, who had been promoted but later left Merrill Lynch to work at Morgan Stanley. Ms. Oden, 44, joined Merrill Lynch in 2010. Prior to that, she worked at UBS Financial Services Inc., according to her BrokerCheck profile. Ms. Oden this month was named one of the financial advice industry's leading innovators by InvestmentNews and was profiled in its Icons & Innovators issue. Industry website AdvisorHub.com first reported the news of Ms. Oden leaving Merrill Lynch.

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