Financier Rusty Goepel’s interests cover a range of businesses and endeavours. His name is wedded to the changes that transformed Vancouver brokerages in the late 1990s. As CEO, he guided Goepel Shields & Partners Inc. through its 1998 merger with McDermid St. Lawrence Securities Ltd. to become Goepel McDermid, which grew to have $3.5 billion in assets under management.