Wilmington Trust names Collins director of tax-exempt bond management

By Melissa Kory

Cleveland, Sept. 28 - Robert F. Collins is rejoining Wilmington Trust Corp.'s Wealth Advisory Services business as director of tax-exempt fixed income management and senior portfolio manager.

Collins was previously a senior vice president at Delaware Investments in Philadelphia. Earlier, he was a senior vice president for PNC Financial Corp. in Philadelphia.

He also previously worked at Wilmington Trust, spending 17 years in fixed-income management, including several years as head of the tax-exempt division of the fixed income group.

He also worked as a credit analyst and bond trader in his early days at the company and helped expand its services to high-net-worth clients in California, Florida and New York.

"Rob is one of the original architects of Wilmington Trust's tax-exempt bond investment policy and management practices, which place a heavy emphasis on credit research," Christopher R. Madel, director of investment implementation for Wilmington Trust Investment Management, said in a press release. "We are pleased to welcome him back to Wilmington Trust as a senior leader in our fixed income group."

Wilmington Trust Corp. is a Delaware-based financial service holding company that provides regional banking and wealth advisory services. Its wholly owned bank subsidiary, Wilmington Trust Co. is a personal trust provider and a retail and commercial bank in Delaware.

© 2015 Prospect News.
All content on this website is protected by copyright law in the U.S. and elsewhere. For the use of the person downloading only.
Redistribution and copying are prohibited by law without written permission in advance from Prospect News.
Redistribution or copying includes e-mailing, printing multiple copies or any other form of reproduction.