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RIA / WealthAdvisordual registered (broker-dealer)19 years in industry

RONALD D VIAVADA

Advisor at MERRILL LYNCH, PIERCE, FENNER & SMITH INCORPORATED

WILLIAMSVILLE, NY

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Data as of Sep 14, 2026 (this record's last observation) from federal regulator filings. Page built Sep 20, 2026, 3:44 AM UTC and rebuilt at most every 15 minutes.

Relationships: 2
Dated events: 0
On other graphs: 0
Observed: May 20, 2008 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: Jan 15, 2007earliest registration or exam on IAPD
Years in industry: 19derivedfrom the industry start date
Years at current firm: 15derivedfrom the current registration's begin date
Prior firms: 1
Current registrations: 1
Registered states: 3
Exams: S66
First exam: Jan 15, 2007
First registration: May 20, 2008
Dual registered: yes, broker-dealer
Other names: RONALD VIAVADA
IAPD individual key: 5198631

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	Mar 7, 2011	n/a	yes	WILLIAMSVILLE, NY	Current employment
EQUITABLE ADVISORS, LLC	National bd RIA	May 20, 2008	Mar 16, 2011	no	WILLIAMSVILLE, NY	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
EQUITABLE ADVISORS, LLC	MERRILL LYNCH, PIERCE, FENNER & SMITH INCORPORATED	Mar 16, 2011	Mar 7, 2011	-9	Firm change	Ibd to wirehouse

Relationships

Registered with (2)

→ MERRILL LYNCH, PIERCE, FENNER & SMITH INCORPORATEDRegistered adviserregistration: current employment
Mar 7, 2011 to presentfactForm ADV
→ EQUITABLE ADVISORS, LLCRegistered adviserregistration: previous registration
May 20, 2008 to Mar 16, 2011factForm ADV

Dated events

No dated event names this entity yet.

Provenance

Graph: RIA / Wealth Management
Canonical id: dfx:ria:6ba813bd-689d-b59c-b2b2-174b2d07e071
First observed: May 20, 2008
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.

RONALD D VIAVADA

Advisor at MERRILL LYNCH, PIERCE, FENNER & SMITH INCORPORATED

WILLIAMSVILLE, NY

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Data as of Sep 14, 2026 (this record's last observation) from federal regulator filings. Page built Sep 20, 2026, 3:44 AM UTC and rebuilt at most every 15 minutes.

Firm

Class

Began

Ended

Current

Branch

Basis

MERRILL LYNCH, PIERCE, FENNER & SMITH INCORPORATED

Wirehouse

Mar 7, 2011

n/a

yes

WILLIAMSVILLE, NY

Current employment

EQUITABLE ADVISORS, LLC

National bd RIA

May 20, 2008

Mar 16, 2011

WILLIAMSVILLE, NY

Previous registration

From

Left

Joined

Gap, days

Kind

Move type

EQUITABLE ADVISORS, LLC

MERRILL LYNCH, PIERCE, FENNER & SMITH INCORPORATED

Mar 16, 2011

Mar 7, 2011

-9

Firm change

Ibd to wirehouse