George Feneis, a Senior Vice President – Financial Advisor has 45 years of industry experience and has spent the past 31 years at Morgan Stanley Smith Barney. “I thought long and hard about my decision to move to RBC Wealth Management and decided to do what was ultimately best for my clients, which was to go to a firm with a relationship-based culture that takes pride in best serving the needs of their clients,” said Feneis.

Paul Granito, Senior Vice President – Financial Advisor, brings 14 years industry experience to RBC Wealth Management. “I am excited about the opportunity to work for a smaller-feel firm, that still has the global resources our valued clients have come to expect and deserve,” added Granito. “As a team, George and I look forward to bringing our respective expertise and experience to a new firm.”

“We’re thrilled to welcome a team of the FG Group’s stature to RBC Wealth Management,” said Fergang. “We are fortunate to continue attracting the best people, with the best businesses, and the best reputations in the Paramus area.”

Also joining RBC Wealth Management as part of the FG Group is Serena Montefusco, Senior Registered Client Associate.

About RBC Wealth Management:
In the United States, RBC Wealth Management operates as a division of RBC Capital Markets, LLC. Founded in 1909, RBC Capital Markets, LLC. is a member of the New York Stock Exchange, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, the Securities Investor Protection Corporation, and other major securities exchanges. RBC Wealth Management has over $227 billion of assets under administration and nearly 2,000 financial advisors operating in 200 locations in 42 states. Recently RBC Wealth Management was ranked “Highest in Investor Satisfaction with Full Service Brokerage Firms” in the J.D. Power and Associates 2011 Full Service Investor Satisfaction Study(SM) (for more information, visit jdpower.com).

Media Contact: Jonell Lundquist, 612-371-2239.

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This exclusive conference is designed to promote best practices and generate new ideas across the industry. Participants attended workshops, led by the Top 100 Financial Advisors, that explored current issues ranging from business development ideas through managing high-net-worth accounts and families to portfolio management and retirement planning.

In addition to Morgan Stanley Smith Barney, participating firms included: Ameriprise Financial Services Inc., Bank of America-Merrill Lynch, Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC, Deutsche Bank Alex. Brown, LPL Financial, Raymond James Financial, RBC Wealth Management, Robert W. Baird & Co., UBS Financial Services Inc. and Wells Fargo Advisors.

Also in attendance were 65 of the Top 100 Financial Advisors in the U.S., as ranked and published in Barron’s April 19, 2010 issue. The Top 100 Financial Advisors, comprising advisors from major security firms and independent operations, are chosen based on the volume of assets overseen by the advisors and their teams, revenue generated for their firms and the quality of the advisors’ practices. This annual ranking is the basis for the Top Advisors Summit.

“Financial Advisors who attend this conference are passionate about delivering advice that can help their clients achieve their financial goals. In a challenging economic environment, the dispassionate analysis and well thought-out strategies discussed by some of the industry’s top professionals made this conference particularly valuable,” said Paul Granito.

“Because the Summit brings together key leaders and top decision makers from around the country, it is recognized by the financial advisor community as the industry’s leading event,” said Ed Finn, editor and president of Barron’s. “The ideas and discussions generated here equip attendees to provide the best investment and financial advice to their clients, which is vital given the challenging economic and market conditions of today.”

For more information about Barron’s Winner’s Circle conferences, please go to www.barrons.com/conferences .

Morgan Stanley Smith Barney, a global leader in wealth management, provides access to a wide range of products and services to individuals, businesses and institutions, including brokerage and investment advisory services, financial and wealth planning, credit and lending, cash management, annuities and insurance, retirement and trust services.

Morgan Stanley is a leading global financial services firm providing a wide range of investment banking, securities, investment management and wealth management services. The Firm’s employees serve clients worldwide including corporations, governments, institutions and individuals from more than 1,200 offices in 42 countries. For further information about Morgan Stanley, please visit www.morganstanley.com .

About Barron’s:

Barron’s (www.barrons.com) is America’s premier financial magazine, renowned for its market-moving stories. Published by Dow Jones & Company since 1921, it reaches an influential audience of senior corporate decision makers, institutional investors, individual investors and financial professionals. With new content available every week in print and every business day online, Barron’s provides readers with a comprehensive review of the market’s recent activity, coupled with in-depth, sophisticated reports on what’s likely to happen in the market in the days and weeks to come. As a result, Barron’s is the financial information source these powerful people rely on for market information, ideas and insights they can use to increase their professional success and enhance their personal, financial well-being.

(*)Source: Barron’s “America’s Top 100 Financial Advisors,” April 19, 2010. Barron’s is a registered trademark of Dow Jones & Company, L.P. All rights reserved. Barron’s “America’s Top 100 Financial Advisors” bases its rankings on qualitative criteria: professionals with a minimum of 7 years financial services experience, acceptable compliance records, client retention reports, customer satisfaction, and more. Advisors are quantitatively ranked based on varying types of revenues and assets advised by the financial professional, with weightings associated for each. Because individual client portfolio performance varies and is typically unaudited, this ranking focuses on customer satisfaction and quality of advice. For more information on ranking methodology, go to http://online.barrons.com/report/top-financial-advisors. The rating may not be representative of any one client’s experience because it reflects a sample of all of the experiences of the advisor’s clients. The rating is not indicative of the advisor’s future performance. Neither Morgan Stanley Smith Barney nor any of their financial advisors pays a fee to Barron’s in exchange for the rating.

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Ophthalmologists who have incorporated the EyeRoute in their practice, can now securely access images and reports from any 3GS-compatible iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad, via EyeRoute Mobile even when out of the clinic, from anywhere Internet connectivity is available.

Using the EyeRoute® Mobile’s intuitive touch screen, patient images stored in EyeRoute can be listed by modality or visit date, and reviewed, panned, zoomed, enhanced, and annotated with text and audio dictation options. Once reviewed, a smart integrated messaging system allows users to share information with other EyeRoute users through the network.

Dr. Julia Haller, MD, Ophthalmologist-in-Chief at Wills Eye Hospital, among the very first users of the EyeRoute® Mobile, states that, “I view this new addition to the EyeRoute suite as a veritable boon in enabling practitioners to stay connected wherever they are in the world. Now, more than ever before, with Topcon’s EyeRoute iPhone application all members of the Wills Eye network, including those working in, remote areas can connect with our EyeRoute patient database on-the-go.”

The EyeRoute® Mobile application can be downloaded from the Apple iTunes store, at an attractive early adopter price of $19.99 for the first year. Even users who currently do not utilize EyeRoute in their practice still gain access to an extensive demo database of images and pathologies and the various viewing and editing features. Customers who utilize EyeRoute in their practice can then activate the link to the mobile application and gain access to their own EyeRoute database. A 3GS-compatible iPhone with an OS 3.0 provides optimal performance and is recommended for integration with EyeRoute Mobile.

“In our quest to provide practitioners with enhanced diagnostic solutions, at Topcon Medical we believe that the integration of EyeRoute with the iPhone will enable eye care professionals to achieve greater workflow efficiencies and benefit both practitioners and patients with significant time and cost savings owing to its virtually anywhere, anytime access for quick reference,” says Katrin Teigeler, VP of Marketing at Topcon.

About EyeRoute Image Management Suite:

The EyeRoute Ophthalmic Image Management System integrates images and reports from Topcon and over 100 other manufacturers’ systems into a single, secure, digital environment. With the ability to view, compare, annotate and transmit patient images seamlessly, EyeRoute provides for fluent workflow efficiency and helps the transition to a paperless environment. The web-browser based system allows for rapid access to patient information, anytime, from virtually anywhere, including workstations, remote computers or even the iPhone. Designed as a scalable and flexible solution, EyeRoute integrates with most EMR’s, is fully standards compliant (DICOM, HL7) and scalable to fit practices today and tomorrow.

About Topcon Medical Systems, Inc.:

Topcon Medical Systems, Inc. (TMS) is a market leader in diagnostic imaging technologies and connectivity solutions for ophthalmology. For over 35 years, TMS has been developing and manufacturing state-of-the-art instrumentation, including the first 3D-OCT system, a wide range of mydriatic and non-mydriatic digital fundus cameras, slit lamps, autorefractors and keratometers. TMS’ EyeRoute® Image Management System allows for the seamless integration of Topcon’s and other manufacturers’ devices. Based in Paramus, NJ, TMS is responsible for the entire Americas region, including dealer sales, corporate accounts and is also headquarters of the Advanced Technology Products Division. TMS is a division of Topcon America Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Topcon Corporation of Tokyo, Japan.

More information: www.topcon.com .

Apple®, iTunes®, iPhone®, iPod touch® and iPad™ are trademarks of Apple, Inc. EyeRoute® is a registered trademark of Topcon.

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