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RIA / WealthAdvisorCertified Financial Plannerdual registered (broker-dealer)15 years in industry

SANJAY SHAH

Advisor at CAMBRIDGE INVESTMENT RESEARCH ADVISORS, INC.

CARY, NC

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Data as of Sep 14, 2026 (this record's last observation) from federal regulator filings. Page built Sep 21, 2026, 5:45 AM UTC and rebuilt at most every 15 minutes.

Relationships: 2
Dated events: 0
On other graphs: 0
Observed: Mar 7, 2012 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: CAMBRIDGE INVESTMENT RESEARCH ADVISORS, INC.
Current firm class: broker-dealer affiliated wealth managerderived
Book size: not publicno per-advisor AUM is published by the SEC, FINRA or IAPD, and DFX estimates none
Industry start: May 26, 2011earliest registration or exam on IAPD
Years in industry: 15derivedfrom the industry start date
Years at current firm: 11derivedfrom the current registration's begin date
Prior firms: 1
Current registrations: 1
Registered states: 1
Designations: Certified Financial Planner
Exams: S65|S63
First exam: May 26, 2011
First registration: Mar 7, 2012
Dual registered: yes, broker-dealer
Other names: SANJAY K SHAH
IAPD individual key: 6003250

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
CAMBRIDGE INVESTMENT RESEARCH ADVISORS, INC.	Bd affiliated wealth	Oct 2, 2014	n/a	yes	CARY, NC	Current employment
MERRILL LYNCH, PIERCE, FENNER & SMITH INCORPORATED	Wirehouse	Mar 7, 2012	Sep 15, 2014	no	CHAPEL HILL, NC	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
MERRILL LYNCH, PIERCE, FENNER & SMITH INCORPORATED	CAMBRIDGE INVESTMENT RESEARCH ADVISORS, INC.	Sep 15, 2014	Oct 2, 2014	17	Firm change	Other

Relationships

Registered with (2)

→ CAMBRIDGE INVESTMENT RESEARCH ADVISORS, INC.Registered adviserregistration: current employment
Oct 2, 2014 to presentfactForm ADV
→ MERRILL LYNCH, PIERCE, FENNER & SMITH INCORPORATEDRegistered adviserregistration: previous registration
Mar 7, 2012 to Sep 15, 2014factForm ADV

Dated events

No dated event names this entity yet.

Provenance

Graph: RIA / Wealth Management
Canonical id: dfx:ria:18b00213-4557-c245-14cb-fdcb14589eec
First observed: Mar 7, 2012
Last observed: Sep 14, 2026 7 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.

SANJAY SHAH

Advisor at CAMBRIDGE INVESTMENT RESEARCH ADVISORS, INC.

CARY, NC

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Data as of Sep 14, 2026 (this record's last observation) from federal regulator filings. Page built Sep 21, 2026, 5:45 AM UTC and rebuilt at most every 15 minutes.

Firm

Class

Began

Ended

Current

Branch

Basis

CAMBRIDGE INVESTMENT RESEARCH ADVISORS, INC.

Bd affiliated wealth

Oct 2, 2014

n/a

yes

CARY, NC

Current employment

MERRILL LYNCH, PIERCE, FENNER & SMITH INCORPORATED

Wirehouse

Mar 7, 2012

Sep 15, 2014

CHAPEL HILL, NC

Previous registration

From

Left

Joined

Gap, days

Kind

Move type

MERRILL LYNCH, PIERCE, FENNER & SMITH INCORPORATED

CAMBRIDGE INVESTMENT RESEARCH ADVISORS, INC.

Sep 15, 2014

Oct 2, 2014

Firm change

Other