Don A. d'Adesky

Don d’Adesky is a Senior Partner at The Americas Group of Raymond James, with over 30 years of experience in the financial services industry. He has received consistent national recognition, including listings in Barron’s Top 1200 Financial Advisors (2015, 2017–2025), Forbes America’s Top Wealth Advisors (2018–2025), Forbes Best-in-State Wealth Advisors (2018–2025), and The Financial Times Top 400 Advisors (2013–2018).

As of May 28, 2025, Mr. d’Adesky helps lead a team managing more than $6.0 billion in client assets across domestic and international markets. Under his leadership, The Americas Group has been named to Barron’s Top 100 Private Wealth Management Teams (2021–2022) and Forbes Top Wealth Management Teams – High Net Worth (2025).

He played a key role in shaping the group’s mission: to build strong, collaborative, and lasting relationships with clients. These relationships are central to helping clients preserve and grow their wealth, supported by advanced risk management technologies.

Mr. d’Adesky joined The Americas Group in 2013, assembling a team of professionals with diverse market expertise to serve corporate entities, institutions, high-net-worth individuals, and their families. The team offers a comprehensive suite of services, including institutional fixed income and equity trading, portfolio and risk management, third-party investment management, credit facilities, private equity, alternative investments, and financial planning.

Previously, he served as Managing Director at Morgan Stanley. He earned a degree in Finance and Entrepreneurship from the USC Marshall School of Business in 1987 and began his career that same year at Cantor Fitzgerald’s institutional division in Beverly Hills, California. Mr. d’Adesky currently works primarily from the firm’s Boca Raton, Florida office.

Barron’s Top 1,200 Financial Advisors 2025, is based on the period from 09/30/2023 – 09/30/2024 and was released on 03/10/2025. 7,669 nominations were received and 1,200 won. Neither Raymond James nor any of its advisors pay a fee in exchange for this award. More: https://bit.ly/3QJuMge

2025 Forbes America’s Top Wealth Advisors, developed by Shook Research, is based on the period from 6/30/2023 to 6/30/2024 and was released on 4/8/2025. 48,944 nominations were received and 250 advisors won. Neither Raymond James nor any of its advisors pay a fee in exchange for this award. More: https://bit.ly/43VK0qm. Please see https://www.forbes.com/top-wealth-advisors/ for more info.

2025 Forbes Best-in-State Wealth Advisors, developed by Shook Research, is based on the period from 6/30/2023 to 6/30/2024 and was released on 4/8/2025. 48,944 nominations were received and 9,722 advisors won. Neither Raymond James nor any of its advisors pay a fee in exchange for this award. More: https://bit.ly/3E2gIf4. Please see https://www.forbes.com/best-in-state-wealth-advisors for more info.

The FT 400 was developed in collaboration with Ignites Research, a subsidiary of the FT that provides specialized content on asset management. To qualify for the list, advisers had to have 10 years of experience and at least $300 million in assets under management (AUM) and no more than 60% of the AUM with institutional clients. The FT reaches out to some of the largest brokerages in the U.S. and asks them to provide a list of advisors who meet the minimum criteria outlined above. These advisors are then invited to apply for the ranking. Only advisors who submit an online application can be considered for the ranking. In 2019, roughly 960 applications were received and 400 were selected to the final list (41.7%). The 400 qualified advisers were then scored on six attributes: AUM, AUM growth rate, compliance record, years of experience, industry certifications, and online accessibility. AUM is the top factor, accounting for roughly 60-70 percent of the applicant’s score. Additionally, to provide a diversity of advisors, the FT placed a cap on the number of advisors from any one state that's roughly correlated to the distribution of millionaires across the U.S. This ranking is based upon the period from 06/30/2016 to 06/30/2019 and was released on 04/18/2019. The ranking may not be representative of any one client’s experience, is not an endorsement, and is not indicative of an advisor’s future performance. Neither Raymond James nor any of its Financial Advisors pay a fee in exchange for this award/rating. The FT is not affiliated with Raymond James.

Top 100 Private Wealth Advisors Team (2022): Barron’s is a registered trademark of Dow Jones & Company, L.P. All rights reserved. The rankings are based on data provided by 457 advisor teams and their firms and include qualitative and quantitative criteria. Time period upon which the rating is based is from 12/31/2020 to 12/31/2021, and was released on 04/15/2022. Data points that relate to quality of practice include professionals with a minimum of 7 years financial services experience, acceptable compliance records (no criminal U4 issues), client retention reports, charitable and philanthropic work, quality of practice, designations held, offering services beyond investments offered including estates and trusts, and more. Financial Advisor teams are quantitatively rated based on varying types of revenues produced and assets under management by the financial professional, with weightings associated for each. Investment performance is not an explicit component because not all advisors have audited results and because performance figures often are influenced more by clients’ risk tolerance than by an advisor’s investment picking abilities. The ranking may not be representative of any one client’s experience, is not an endorsement, and is not indicative of an advisor team’s future performance. Neither Raymond James nor any of its Financial Advisors pay a fee in exchange for this award/rating. Barron’s is not affiliated with Raymond James.

2024 Forbes America’s Top 100 Wealth Management High Net Worth, developed by SHOOK Research, is based on the period from 3/31/2023 to 3/31/2024 and was released on 11/13/2024. 11,674 team nominations were received and 100 advisor teams won. Neither Raymond James nor any of its advisors pay a fee in exchange for this award. More: https://bit.ly/3AzzB7B . Please see https://www.forbes.com/lists/top-wealth-management-teams-high-net-worth/?sh=5ec5d7d023e1 for more info.