Joanne Mckean Morton

Current Employers

Employment History

• 12/1985 → Present
  Morton & Associates
  Waterford, CT
• 09/1995 → 09/2025
  Avantax Investment Services, Inc.
  Waterford, CT
• 09/1996 → 09/2025
  Avantax Advisory Services
  Waterford, CT
• 07/2015 → 07/2025
  Avantax Insurance Agency, Llc
  Waterford, CT
• 09/2025 → Present
  Cetera Wealth Services, Llc
  Waterford, CT
• 09/2025 → Present
  Cetera Investment Advisers Llc
  Schaumburg, IL

Previous Registrations

• 1996-09-11 → 2025-09-05
  Avantax Advisory Services
  Waterford, CT

Other Businesses

1)TWO-FAMILY RENTAL PROPERTY POSITION: Owner/Landlord NATURE: Rental Property Owner/Management INVESTMENT RELATED: No NUMBER OF HOURS: 4 SECURITIES TRADING HOURS: 0 START DATE: 05/01/1989 ADDRESS: 19 Twin Lakes Drive, Waterford CT 06385, United States DESCRIPTION: Check on property, see if anything needs to be fixed or replaced. Deal with any problems with tenants. Meet contractors there if work needs to be done to maintain property. I deposit rent checks and pay rental expenses after trading hours. 2)"Power of Attorney for my Husband; Spouse & Caregiver; My husband is 13 years older than me. He is now 83. Michael has survived [REDACTED], most recently, he is in remission from [REDACTED]. He suffers from [REDACTED], has [REDACTED] in his wrists and knees. Thankfully, he remains mentally sharp. But I have always handled our investments and our taxes. Until about 10 years ago, Michael handled bill paying, checkbook balancing, and records maintenance, but he has since handed that over to me. My POA is on file in the Yale New Haven Hospital System, enabling me to communicate with doctors, especially since M is [REDACTED]. I make and accompany him to numerous doctor and dental appointments and together we make medical decisions. When we had our wills redone at the end of 2016, we also executed Durable POAs each granting the other a Power of Attorney with no restrictions to handle any and all his affairs. We also executed Health Care Directives. Michael signed his Power of Attorney, designating me, Joanne Morton, his spouse, as his POA on 12/19/2016. And, I signed my POA giving him unrestricted authority to handle any and all his affairs. I never thought of this as an ""Outside Business Activity,"" because I have never seen ""Power of Attorney"" stated in the Annual Compliance Questionnaire."" ; NIR; 4; 12/19/2016; 19 Twin Lakes Dr Waterford CT 06385; As my husband's POA, my top 5 responsibilities are: Making sure he gets the best medical care - often messaging his doctors with follow-up questions, making sure his medications are correctly dispensed, arranging and taking him to appointments, and most recently to our local hospital for a [REDACTED] on his [REDACTED] to alleviate the excruciating pain when the Kenalog injections no longer worked. Household bill paying, check register balancing (we are old school), record-keeping. Managing all cash flow Managing all investments-his, ours, and mine Managing all tax reporting and payments" 3)Morton & Assoc/Sole Proprietor; Tax Preparation/Tax Planning; Tax Preparation and Tax Planning. With regard to the Tax Preparation side of my business, it is almost exclusively individual tax preparation. Schedule Cs aside, I only prepare 2 partnership returns and about 3 ongoing trust tax returns. All Tax Planning is for individuals only. I do not provide any accounting services.; NIR; 130; 12/15/1985; 19 Waterford CT 06385-4141; I own 100% of Morton & Associates and produce all the work.

Exams

• S65 Uniform Investment Adviser Law Examination
  1996-08-20
• S63 Uniform Securities Agent State Law Examination
  1995-12-04

Designations

Other Names

• Joanne Mckean Morton