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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:

Current Employers
Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated

One Bryant Park, New York, NY 10036 • United States

Current Registrations

AuthorityCategoryStatusDate
TX RA APPROVED 2019-09-16
  • TX RA
    APPROVED
    Since 2019-09-16

Branch Locations

800 Capitol St, Houston, TX 77002 • United States

Disclosures

1 disclosure category reported Yes on this SEC record. Read each Yes below, then review the firm’s Form ADV Item 11 guide for how disclosure questions work.

  • Regulatory action No
  • Criminal Yes
  • Bankruptcy No
  • Civil judicial No
  • Bond No
  • Judgment / lien No
  • Investigation No
  • Customer complaint No
  • Termination No
Employment History
OrganizationCityStateFromTo
Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated Houston TX 05/2019 Present
University Of Houston Law Center, Health Law And Policy Institut Houston TX 09/2015 05/2019
Cfg Industries Llc Spring TX 05/2017 07/2017
University Of Houston Houston TX 08/2015 05/2019
Bank Of America N.A. Houston TX 07/2019 Present
  • 05/2019 → Present
    Houston, TX
  • 09/2015 → 05/2019
    University Of Houston Law Center, Health Law And Policy Institut
    Houston, TX
  • 05/2017 → 07/2017
    Cfg Industries Llc
    Spring, TX
  • 08/2015 → 05/2019
    University Of Houston
    Houston, TX
  • 07/2019 → Present
    Bank Of America N.A.
    Houston, TX
Other Businesses

I*: 2600295 Entity Type: For Profit Name of OBA: J. D. Address: Houston, TX 77016 Investment Related: No Position, Title, Association: Owner Employee Start Date: 07/14/2025 Number of Hours: 2 hrs wkly Number of Hours during trading: 0 Duties: Selling my collectibles or trading game cards on platforms such as eBay, TCGPlayer, etc. List collectibles or trading cards on online platform for sale, ship items that have sold, receive the payouts/proceeds from the sales after items have been delivered.

Exams
CodeExamDate
S66 Uniform Combined State Law Examination 2019-09-13
  • S66 Uniform Combined State Law Examination
    2019-09-13
Other Names
  • Jj Deforest
  • Johnny Deforest

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