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Cetera Investment Advisers Llc

1450 American Lane 6Th Floor, Suite 650, Schaumburg, IL 60173-2096 • United States

Current Registrations

AuthorityCategoryStatusDate
IL RA APPROVED 2025-09-05
  • IL RA
    APPROVED
    Since 2025-09-05

Branch Locations

845 Oakton Street, Elk Grove Village, IL 60007 • United States

Disclosures

No disclosure categories reported as “Yes” on this SEC record.

  • Regulatory action No
  • Criminal No
  • Bankruptcy No
  • Civil judicial No
  • Bond No
  • Judgment / lien No
  • Investigation No
  • Customer complaint No
  • Termination No
Employment History
OrganizationCityStateFromTo
Porte Brown Llc Elk Grove Village IL 08/2010 Present
Avantax Investment Services Inc. Elk Grove Village IL 05/2023 09/2025
Avantax Advisory Services Elk Grove Village IL 05/2023 09/2025
Porte Brown Wealth Management Elk Grove Village IL 01/2024 Present
Avantax Insurance Agency And / Or Avantax Insurance Services Elk Grove Village IL 01/2024 09/2025
Cetera Wealth Services, Llc Elk Grove Village IL 09/2025 Present
Cetera Investment Advisers Llc Schaumburg IL 09/2025 Present
  • 08/2010 → Present
    Porte Brown Llc
    Elk Grove Village, IL
  • 05/2023 → 09/2025
    Avantax Investment Services Inc.
    Elk Grove Village, IL
  • 05/2023 → 09/2025
    Avantax Advisory Services
    Elk Grove Village, IL
  • 01/2024 → Present
    Porte Brown Wealth Management
    Elk Grove Village, IL
  • 01/2024 → 09/2025
    Avantax Insurance Agency And / Or Avantax Insurance Services
    Elk Grove Village, IL
  • 09/2025 → Present
    Cetera Wealth Services, Llc
    Elk Grove Village, IL
  • 09/2025 → Present
    Schaumburg, IL
Previous Registrations
  • 2023-08-25 → 2025-09-05
    Avantax Advisory Services
    Elk Grove Village, IL
Other Businesses

1)PORTE BROWN LLC POSITION: Partner NATURE: Porte Brown LLC Partner : Duties : Provide tax services to our corporate clients, tax prep and planning. Provide tax services to our individual clients, tax return, . In addition, we also have tax planning meetings with the individual during the year. Provide consulting services for our current corporate clients. These services could be items such as answering questions about a business purchase, business sale, discussing tax impacts of fixed asset acquisitions, and discussing tax credits/deductions. INVESTMENT RELATED: No NUMBER OF HOURS: 180 SECURITIES TRADING HOURS: 128 START DATE: 08/02/2010 ADDRESS: 845 Oakton Street, Elk Grove Village IL 60007 DESCRIPTION; tax/financial reporting services . Reviewing tax returns for clients in which I am the return signer. Reviewing financial statements , Reviewing audit and review engagements in which I am the engagement partner. Prepare and review the billing of individual and corporate clients in which I am the partner in charge. Oversee clients in which I am the partner in charge, including meeting with clients periodically during the year to discuss their tax returns, tax planning, or financial statements of their company. 2)PORTE BROWN WEALTH MANAGEMENT POSITION: Advisor NATURE: Refer clients to Ron, Abe, and Nicky. INVESTMENT RELATED: No NUMBER OF HOURS: 1 SECURITIES TRADING HOURS: 4 START DATE: 01/01/2024 ADDRESS: 845 Oakton Street, Elk Grove Village IL 60007 DESCRIPTION: Referring advisor 3) Palatine Area Chamber of Commerce; Board Treasurer; Organization is a city chamber of commerce. I currently serve as the treasurer on the board of directors of the organization. Duties in which the board presides:1.Reviewing events sponsored by the Palatine Area Chamber of Commerce and approving events in which this Chamber sponsors. These are events such as business expos, golf outings, and networking events for small business owners.2. Establishing committees for events that are sponsored by the Palatine Area Chamber of commerce. A board member is encouraged to participate in at least one of these committees during the calendar year.3. Attend monthly board meetings. These board meetings include a review of any past or upcoming events, as well as discussing new/current Chamber members.4. Discuss and determine ways to promote small businesses within the Chamber. This could be through including their business name on the Palatine Area Chamber of Commerce website, including their business name at a sponsored event, or reaching out to them to have them host an event at their business location.5. Recruit new members to the Palatine Area Chamber of Commerce, as well as answer any questions for any current members.; NIR; 2; 01/01/2023; 3400 W Stonegate Blvd Arlington Heights IL 60005; I currently serve as the treasurer of the Palatine Area Chamber of Commerce. The duties in which I preside in this role:1. Attend monthly board meetings to discuss current events of the Chamber, as well as upcoming events.2. Provide updates of bank account balances to board members.3. Work with outside accountant to answer their questions on any bookkeeping of the Chamber.4. Answer questions above budgets of upcoming events, as well as answer questions about the revenue that was received for any events that were sponsored by the Chamber.5. Volunteer for one event committee a year. The committee that I currently serve is we put on a small business expo event in the city of Palatine. I assist with recruiting businesses to attend the expo as well as helping them set up at the event.

Exams
CodeExamDate
S66 Uniform Combined State Law Examination 2023-08-25
  • S66 Uniform Combined State Law Examination
    2023-08-25
Other Names
  • John Kenneth Lancaster
  • John Lancaster
  • John Kenneth Lancaster

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