Nicole Dunham co-leads a team of 70 traders who help RBC Wealth Management’s 2,200-plus financial advisors grow their businesses and optimize clients’ fixed-income portfolios. Based in the firm’s Minneapolis office, she helped the team achieve record revenues in 2023. Over the past 18 months, RBC has seen fixed-income assets grow by 45%, with a 15% increase in financial advisors purchasing individual bonds for their clients. Dunham regularly helps advisors recruit large multimillion-dollar fixed-income portfolios, and she established a team to help RBC’s women advisors navigate the fixed-income landscape, which led to an 80% increase in the number of women who qualify for the firm’s Fixed Income Leaders Conference.