Kurt Peter Kempkes

Employer firm

Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated CRD 7691

$1.78T regulatory AUM 16,844 advisory clients

Reported services (Item 5G)

• Portfolio management (individuals)
• Portfolio management (institutions)
• Pension consulting
• Selection of other advisers
• Educational seminars
• PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT REPORTS, ALLOCATION MODELING, IPS, RESEARCH REPORTS AND SERVICES, SEE SCHEDULE D

From the firm’s Form ADV. Read the guides:

• Item 5F — Regulatory AUM
• Item 5G — Advisory services
• Full firm profile

Current Employers

Employment History

• 12/2008 → 07/2017
  J.P.MOrgan Securities Inc
  New York, NY
• 11/2016 → 07/2017
  J.P. Morgan Chase Bank, Na
  New York, NY
• 07/2017 → 03/2021
  Blackrock
  New York, NY
• 07/2017 → 03/2021
  Blackrock Investments, Llc
  New York, NY
• 10/2021 → Present
  Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated
  New York, NY
• 04/2021 → 09/2021
  Self Employed
  Larchmont, NY

Previous Registrations

• 2017-08-04 → 2021-03-04
  Blackrock Investment Management, Llc
  New York, NY
  Princeton, NJ

Other Businesses

I*555256For profit or not for profit: Entity For ProfitName of outside business organization: Amicus.ioInvestment related: NAddress of business: Charlotte, North Carolina, 28281Nature of business: ["Corporation"]Position, title, association: ["Consultant/Independent Contractor"], Start date of relationship: 3/1/2021Number of hours devoted: 1 hour(s) MonthlyNumber of hours devoted during trading hours: 0Duties: , Entity purpose: facilitates charitable giving with technology. My responsibilities: periodically advise on general organizational strategy (not investment or finance-related) I* 1824306For profit or not for profit: Entity CharitableName of outside business organization: French-American School of New YorkInvestment related: noAddress of business: Mamaroneck, NY, 10543Nature of business: School, College or UniversityPosition, title, association: Treasurer,Board Member Start date of relationship: 09/01/2025 Number of hours devoted: 3 monthlyNumber of hours devoted during trading hours: 1Duties: As the Treasurer of the school's all-volunteer Board, I would lead the Board's Finance Committee in providing oversight of the school's Director of Finance (a full-time, paid position). The school's Director of Finance (not the Treasurer) is responsible for creating and implementing the school's operating budget. One key part of the Treasurer role is to provide recommendations to the entire Board on whether to approve requests for annual tuition increases or other special, extraordinary expenses, for example. Purpose: As an independent (private) school, this entity provides bilingual education for nursery through twelfth-grade students in Westchester County, New York.

Exams

• S63 Uniform Securities Agent State Law Examination
  2008-04-11

Designations

• Chartered Financial Analyst