Solana Beach, CA Loma Santa Fe Dr Office

RBC Securities, Inc. provides wealth management and brokerage services to individuals (including high‑net‑worth clients), trusts, estates, IRAs and retirement plans through its wrap‑fee investment advisory program. The firm is registered as both an SEC investment adviser and a FINRA broker‑dealer and delivers financial planning, portfolio management and ongoing reporting to program participants.

Investment management under the RBC Securities Investment Advisory Program is delegated to an affiliated sub‑advisor, RBC Rochdale, which constructs asset allocation strategies, implements portfolios with mutual funds, ETFs, SMAs and, where appropriate, individual securities, and documents objectives in an Investment Policy Statement. Accounts are managed on a discretionary, asset‑based fee basis (the firm does not offer fixed‑fee advisory mandates for the program) and use custodial and cash‑management features that include an affiliated bank sweep option and a government money‑market fund.

What distinguishes RBC Securities from many multi‑team advisers is its integration within a broad financial services group: it is affiliated with a bank parent and related entities that include a trust company, municipal advisory and pension consulting activities, broker‑dealer distribution services, and other trading businesses (including futures, swaps and commodity activity), which creates intercompany referral and fee‑sharing arrangements. The brochure discloses how those relationships are managed — for example, use of affiliated City National Rochdale funds with periodic fee rebates, an affiliated deposit sweep program, soft‑dollar and proprietary research arrangements, and related conflicts — and it also notes prior regulatory matters at the firm and a parent‑level legal event that led to a Department of Labor QPAM exemption.