State Farm and Merrill Lynch each list 8 of 131 first adviser registrations

State Farm Investment Management Corp. and Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated top the distribution for October 26, 2026, each listing eight of the 131 source-reported first adviser registrations dated that day. In these records, the named firm is each adviser's current source-listed affiliation, not necessarily the firm where the first registration occurred.

Cetera Investment Advisers LLC and Ameriprise Financial Services, LLC each list six, and the remaining 103 registrations fall across other listed-firm categories. The counts describe advisers whose current listed affiliation is the named firm, not registrations the firms filed.

Among the State Farm-affiliated records, Trang Doan B. Trinh-Byrd and Gina Scruggs each show a first adviser registration dated October 26, 2026. Branch listings dated October 27, 2026, place Trinh-Byrd in Torrance, California, and Scruggs in Jasper, Alabama.

Merrill Lynch-affiliated examples include Jake A. Franzke, whose first adviser registration was dated October 26, 2026, with a listed branch in Massapequa Park, New York, and Jared Rafferty, whose first adviser registration was dated the same day, with a listed branch in Boulder, Colorado.

Cetera-affiliated examples include Jack Muench, whose first adviser registration was dated October 26, 2026, with a listed branch in St. Louis, Missouri, and Andres A. Casarez, whose first adviser registration was dated October 26, 2026, with a branch listed in Irving, Texas. Ameriprise-affiliated examples with the same first-registration date include Gabriel J. Benson, listed in Fargo, North Dakota, and Seamas O Brien, listed in Gold River, California.

A first adviser registration in these records marks the first registration the source shows for an adviser, not a hiring date, a first industry job, a new license, or a career start. Reported branch locations do not establish a residence or a sole workplace, and the counts are record counts, not a measure of adviser movement between firms.

First adviser registrations

The advisers below account for all 131 source-reported first adviser registrations on 10/26/2026. Firms and branches reflect affiliations currently reported for each adviser, which may differ from those at first registration. These dates do not establish hires or career starts, and branches do not establish residence or exclusive workplaces.