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

CODY JAMES JOHNSON

Advisor at MERRILL LYNCH, PIERCE, FENNER & SMITH INCORPORATED

Southgate, MI | FARMINGTON HILLS, MI

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Data as of Sep 14, 2026 (this record's last observation) from federal regulator filings. Page built Sep 20, 2026, 4:59 AM UTC and rebuilt at most every 15 minutes.

Relationships: 2
Dated events: 0
On other graphs: 0
Observed: Jan 2, 2014 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: Dec 28, 2013earliest registration or exam on IAPD
Years in industry: 12derivedfrom the industry start date
Years at current firm: 10derivedfrom the current registration's begin date
Prior firms: 1
Current registrations: 1
Registered states: 2
Exams: S66
First exam: Dec 28, 2013
First registration: Jan 2, 2014
Dual registered: yes, broker-dealer
Other names: CODY JOHNSON
IAPD individual key: 6188116

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	Nov 16, 2015	n/a	yes	FARMINGTON HILLS, MI\|Southgate, MI	Current employment
PNC WEALTH MANAGEMENT	Bd affiliated wealth	Jan 2, 2014	Oct 20, 2015	no	TAYLOR, MI\|TAYLOR, MI\|TROY, MI\|ALLEN PARK, MI	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
PNC WEALTH MANAGEMENT	MERRILL LYNCH, PIERCE, FENNER & SMITH INCORPORATED	Oct 20, 2015	Nov 16, 2015	27	Firm change	Other

Relationships

Registered with (2)

→ MERRILL LYNCH, PIERCE, FENNER & SMITH INCORPORATEDRegistered adviserregistration: current employment
Nov 16, 2015 to presentfactForm ADV
→ PNC WEALTH MANAGEMENTRegistered adviserregistration: previous registration
Jan 2, 2014 to Oct 20, 2015factForm ADV

Dated events

No dated event names this entity yet.

Provenance

Graph: RIA / Wealth Management
Canonical id: dfx:ria:598c0cf9-263b-fee6-cbb2-b909276d8fee
First observed: Jan 2, 2014
Last observed: Sep 14, 2026 6 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.

CODY JAMES JOHNSON

Advisor at MERRILL LYNCH, PIERCE, FENNER & SMITH INCORPORATED

Southgate, MI | FARMINGTON HILLS, MI

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Search this name across graphsid dfx:ria:598c0cf9-263b-fee6-cbb2-b909276d8fee

Data as of Sep 14, 2026 (this record's last observation) from federal regulator filings. Page built Sep 20, 2026, 4:59 AM UTC and rebuilt at most every 15 minutes.

Firm

Class

Began

Ended

Current

Branch

Basis

MERRILL LYNCH, PIERCE, FENNER & SMITH INCORPORATED

Wirehouse

Nov 16, 2015

n/a

yes

FARMINGTON HILLS, MI|Southgate, MI

Current employment

PNC WEALTH MANAGEMENT

Bd affiliated wealth

Jan 2, 2014

Oct 20, 2015

TAYLOR, MI|TAYLOR, MI|TROY, MI|ALLEN PARK, MI

Previous registration

From

Left

Joined

Gap, days

Kind

Move type

PNC WEALTH MANAGEMENT

MERRILL LYNCH, PIERCE, FENNER & SMITH INCORPORATED

Oct 20, 2015

Nov 16, 2015

Firm change

Other