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Wedbush Morgan Securities President Ed Wedbush is bullish on Boise, where the firm plans to keep adding staff in its new office.
Los Angeles-based Wedbush Morgan recently opened in the Banner Bank Building, 950 W. Bannock St. Wedbush Morgan occupies about one-third of the building's sixth floor.
Wedbush, 75 - "I'm not even thinking about retirement," he said - came to Boise last week to deliver presentations and attend grand-opening activities. He said the firm expects to increase the employee count to 15 to 20 in the next two years at the Boise office, which now employs seven.
"Boise is an excellent, stable and reasonably well-to-do community, which is typical of our office locations," he said.
In small but growing population centers like the Boise area, "I see a mixture of people, generally a little more conservative and more concerned about financial safety, yet very much progressive about investment opportunities," Wedbush said. "We see Boise as a progressive, growing city."
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