John Patrick Sprague

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

• 01/2023 → 06/2025
  Kindercare
  Newtown, PA
• 06/2023 → 08/2024
  Esf
  Princeton, NJ
• 11/2022 → 01/2023
  Unemployed
  Ewing, NJ
• 07/2022 → 11/2022
  Verizon
  Pennington, NJ
• 08/2017 → 10/2020
  Unemployed
  New York City, NY
• 06/2017 → 08/2017
  Rambling Pines
  Hopewell, NJ
• 07/2014 → 06/2017
  Unemployed
  Hopewell, NJ
• 10/2025 → 01/2026
  Cetera Wealth Services, Llc
  El Segundo, CA
• 06/2025 → 10/2025
  Unemployed
  Newtown, PA
• 10/2025 → 01/2026
  Cetera Investment Advisers Llc
  Schaumburg, IL
• 02/2026 → Present
  Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated
  Pennington, NJ
• 06/2023 → 08/2024
  The Chapin School
  New York, NY
• 02/2021 → 12/2024
  The College Of New Jersey
  Ewing, NJ
• 04/2018 → 04/2019
  Sae Institute
  New York, NY
• 08/2016 → 12/2017
  West Virginia University
  Morgantown, WV
• 09/2015 → 05/2021
  William Paterson University
  Wayne, NJ
• 09/2025 → 01/2026
  Mid Atlantic Resource Group
  Pennington, NJ
• 04/2026 → Present
  Bank Of America, N.A.
  Pennington, NJ

Previous Registrations

• 2025-10-31 → 2026-02-02
  Cetera Investment Advisers Llc
  Wall, NJ

Exams

• S66 Uniform Combined State Law Examination
  2025-08-08

Other Names

• John Sprague