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RIA / WealthAdvisordual registered (broker-dealer)12 years in industry

Matthew Eric Johnson

Advisor at MERRILL LYNCH, PIERCE, FENNER & SMITH INCORPORATED

WILMINGTON, DE

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Data as of Sep 14, 2026 (this record's last observation) from federal regulator filings. Page built Sep 19, 2026, 2:46 AM UTC and rebuilt at most every 15 minutes.

Relationships: 2
Dated events: 0
On other graphs: 0
Observed: May 17, 2019 to Sep 14, 2026

Across DFX

This entity has not been resolved onto another DFX graph by a shared identifier. A name match elsewhere would be a candidate, never an identity, and none is recorded.

Facts

fact = as filed or announced; derived = computed by DFX; estimate = a band, never a point

Current firm: MERRILL LYNCH, PIERCE, FENNER & SMITH INCORPORATED
Current firm class: wirehousederived
Book size: not publicno per-advisor AUM is published by the SEC, FINRA or IAPD, and DFX estimates none
Industry start: Aug 1, 2014earliest registration or exam on IAPD
Years in industry: 12derivedfrom the industry start date
Years at current firm: 6derivedfrom the current registration's begin date
Prior firms: 1
Current registrations: 1
Registered states: 2
Exams: S66
First exam: Apr 29, 2019
First registration: May 17, 2019
Dual registered: yes, broker-dealer
IAPD individual key: 7070755

Registration history

registration spans on IAPD; the basis says whether the span is a current registration or a prior employment record

Firm	Class	Began	Ended	Current	Branch	Basis
MERRILL LYNCH, PIERCE, FENNER & SMITH INCORPORATED	Wirehouse	Sep 2, 2020	n/a	yes	WILMINGTON, DE	Current employment
SECURIAN FINANCIAL SERVICES, INC.	Former SEC adviser	May 17, 2019	Jun 2, 2020	no	NEWARK, DE	Previous registration

Moves

a move is two registration dates; a bulk corporate re-registration is typed BULK_TRANSFER and is not a move

From	To	Left	Joined	Gap, days	Kind	Move type
SECURIAN FINANCIAL SERVICES, INC.	MERRILL LYNCH, PIERCE, FENNER & SMITH INCORPORATED	Jun 2, 2020	Sep 2, 2020	92	Firm change	Ibd to wirehouse

Relationships

Registered with (2)

→ MERRILL LYNCH, PIERCE, FENNER & SMITH INCORPORATEDRegistered adviserregistration: current employment
Sep 2, 2020 to presentfactForm ADV
→ SECURIAN FINANCIAL SERVICES, INC.Registered adviserregistration: previous registration
May 17, 2019 to Jun 2, 2020factForm ADV

Dated events

No dated event names this entity yet.

Provenance

Graph: RIA / Wealth Management
Canonical id: dfx:ria:1065bcb1-4281-ddff-c71f-8b83acbcd40d
First observed: May 17, 2019
Last observed: Sep 14, 2026 5 days ago
Source families: Federal regulator filings
1 registered feed stand behind this record; each fact above carries its own dates and, where the publisher serves one, its document.
Resolution: Identity across graphs by shared identifier (CRD, CIK, EIN, ADV fund id, individual CRD) or citation; a name match is shown as a candidate and never merged.

Matthew Eric Johnson

Advisor at MERRILL LYNCH, PIERCE, FENNER & SMITH INCORPORATED

WILMINGTON, DE

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Search this name across graphsid dfx:ria:1065bcb1-4281-ddff-c71f-8b83acbcd40d

Data as of Sep 14, 2026 (this record's last observation) from federal regulator filings. Page built Sep 19, 2026, 2:46 AM UTC and rebuilt at most every 15 minutes.

Firm

Class

Began

Ended

Current

Branch

Basis

MERRILL LYNCH, PIERCE, FENNER & SMITH INCORPORATED

Wirehouse

Sep 2, 2020

n/a

yes

WILMINGTON, DE

Current employment

SECURIAN FINANCIAL SERVICES, INC.

Former SEC adviser

May 17, 2019

Jun 2, 2020

NEWARK, DE

Previous registration

From

Left

Joined

Gap, days

Kind

Move type

SECURIAN FINANCIAL SERVICES, INC.

MERRILL LYNCH, PIERCE, FENNER & SMITH INCORPORATED

Jun 2, 2020

Sep 2, 2020

Firm change

Ibd to wirehouse