Merrill lists 17; 143 first adviser registrations across firms

The records include 143 source-reported first adviser registrations in the selected window, which runs from 09/30/2026 through 09/30/2026. The largest named firm category is Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated, with 17 people. The firm shown is the current source-listed affiliation; a first adviser registration does not establish a hiring date, first industry job or career start.

The full-period firm distribution

The complete distribution groups the 143 registrations into five chart categories: 17 at Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated; seven at Great Valley Advisor Group, LLC; seven at J.P. Morgan Securities LLC; six at Strategic Advisers LLC; and 106 across all other firms. The last figure is a combined category, not a count for one firm. The named-firm counts are categories in the complete period, not a selected list of the entire roster.

Examples across the named firms

Two selected records list Pranav Garikapati and Vincent M. Papais with Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated. Both have a first-registration date of 09/30/2026. Their records list Pennington, New Jersey, and Charlotte, North Carolina, respectively, as branch locations observed on 10/01/2026.

At Great Valley Advisor Group, LLC, Thomas E. McCrea and Bennett W. Miller are two selected examples with first-registration dates of 09/30/2026. Their listed branch locations are Denver, Pennsylvania, and Columbia, South Carolina, respectively; those location records were observed on 10/01/2026.

The selected J.P. Morgan Securities LLC examples are Matthew George, with Santa Cruz, California, listed as a branch location, and Victoria C. Buenner, with Plano, Texas. Both records give 09/30/2026 as the first-registration date, while the branch information was observed on 10/01/2026.

At Strategic Advisers LLC, Ethan Wells is listed with a Cumming, Georgia, branch and David Zappe with a Morristown, New Jersey, branch. Their first-registration dates are 09/30/2026; the branch records were observed on 10/01/2026. A listed branch does not establish a person's residence or only workplace, and the registration date does not show when someone was hired.

Selected records

Complete record list

The full-period list contains 143 records. The homepage breakdown covers the complete list: Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated (17); Great Valley Advisor Group, LLC (7); J.P. Morgan Securities LLC (7); Strategic Advisers LLC (6); All other firms (106).

The list below includes all 143 source-reported first adviser registrations dated on 09/30/2026. The listed firm is the current source-reported affiliation, not necessarily the first registration firm. First adviser registration does not establish a hiring date or career start. Reported locations do not establish residence or sole workplace.