I had a bad breakup with an adviser early this year. He'd been pressing me with really hard sell tactics to transfer more money to him since he was sure he could do so much better than whomever I had besides himself. I was polite pretty much all the way through, and kept telling him thanks, but I'm still figuring stuff out on my own, but I wasn't interested. I thought that would be pretty plain that if I wanted his input, I'd ask for it and he'd leave me alone otherwise, but he decided to keep "touching base" way more frequently than normal. So I told him that I was planning on self-managing, and he started telling me that that was a bad idea since he was a professional and expert and basically told me it was like he was a doctor and some random patient was deciding to operate on themselves - and got close to the line of calling me too dumb to invest... but I stayed polite and firm with him and told him (again) that I was not interested.
And then a day later, he transferred my account to the general pool of investors, which was fine technically, but it was the way he did it. No notice or alert, and it generated a new account number and all of my account details disappeared for about a week while they transferred everything. I'm sure it was a tantrum-like move since he realized that I wasn't going to be a cash cow for him.
I called the pool and told them that I was NOT happy, and that the adviser had been using hard-sell tactics, and based off of that, I was done with their company as a whole. I didn't get rude, but I made sure to tell them that he'd been pressuring me for months and it was not appreciated.
So if I was you, I'd ignore the guy - don't even email him back because that just forces you on the defensive and gives him another opportunity to try to talk you out of it.
Just call the main number for your new financial institution to complete the forms for transfer and do an end run around him. You gave him the courtesy of a heads-up, and that is really more than kind. I can't stand pushy jerks like that, and there's no reason you have to deal with him at all. Just fill out the forms for the place you're transferring to, and let them handle the rest.