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RIA / WealthAdvisorCertified Financial Planner|Chartered Financial Consultantdual registered (broker-dealer)40 years in industry

JOHN STEWART WELCH

Advisor at ESI FINANCIAL ADVISORS

WINSTON SALEM, NC | CHARLOTTE, 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, 2:50 AM UTC and rebuilt at most every 15 minutes.

Relationships: 3
Dated events: 0
On other graphs: 0
Observed: Sep 7, 2004 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

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Current firm: ESI FINANCIAL ADVISORS
Current firm class: independent wealth managerderived
Book size: not publicno per-advisor AUM is published by the SEC, FINRA or IAPD, and DFX estimates none
Industry start: Feb 3, 1986earliest registration or exam on IAPD
Years in industry: 40derivedfrom the industry start date
Years at current firm: 5derivedfrom the current registration's begin date
Prior firms: 2
Current registrations: 1
Registered states: 1
Designations: Certified Financial Planner|Chartered Financial Consultant
Exams: S63
First exam: Feb 3, 1986
First registration: Sep 7, 2004
Dual registered: yes, broker-dealer
Other names: JOHN STEWART WELCH
IAPD individual key: 1009671

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
ESI FINANCIAL ADVISORS	Independent wealth	Mar 1, 2021	n/a	yes	CHARLOTTE, NC\|WINSTON SALEM, NC	Current employment
SAGEPOINT FINANCIAL, INC.	Former SEC adviser	Mar 11, 2014	Dec 17, 2020	no	SCOTTSDALE, AZ\|WINSTON SALEM, NC	Previous registration
ESI FINANCIAL ADVISORS	Independent wealth	Sep 7, 2004	Mar 11, 2014	no	WINSTON SALEM, NC\|WINSTON-SALEM, NC\|WINSTON SALEM, NC\|WINSTON-SALEM, NC\|WINSTON SALEM, 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
SAGEPOINT FINANCIAL, INC.	ESI FINANCIAL ADVISORS	Dec 17, 2020	Mar 1, 2021	74	Firm change	Ibd to ibd
ESI FINANCIAL ADVISORS	SAGEPOINT FINANCIAL, INC.	Mar 11, 2014	Mar 11, 2014	0	Firm change	Other

Relationships

Registered with (2)

→ ESI FINANCIAL ADVISORSRegistered adviserregistration: previous registration
Sep 7, 2004 to Mar 11, 2014factForm ADV
→ SAGEPOINT FINANCIAL, INC.Registered adviserregistration: previous registration
Mar 11, 2014 to Dec 17, 2020factForm ADV

Dated events

No dated event names this entity yet.

Provenance

Graph: RIA / Wealth Management
Canonical id: dfx:ria:78ea717e-8289-5bf4-fe14-4e81499f39d6
First observed: Sep 7, 2004
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.

JOHN STEWART WELCH

Advisor at ESI FINANCIAL ADVISORS

WINSTON SALEM, NC | CHARLOTTE, NC

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Search this name across graphsid dfx:ria:78ea717e-8289-5bf4-fe14-4e81499f39d6

Data as of Sep 14, 2026 (this record's last observation) from federal regulator filings. Page built Sep 21, 2026, 2:50 AM UTC and rebuilt at most every 15 minutes.

Firm

Class

Began

Ended

Current

Branch

Basis

ESI FINANCIAL ADVISORS

Independent wealth

Mar 1, 2021

n/a

yes

CHARLOTTE, NC|WINSTON SALEM, NC

Current employment

SAGEPOINT FINANCIAL, INC.

Former SEC adviser

Mar 11, 2014

Dec 17, 2020

SCOTTSDALE, AZ|WINSTON SALEM, NC

Previous registration

ESI FINANCIAL ADVISORS

Independent wealth

Sep 7, 2004

Mar 11, 2014

WINSTON SALEM, NC|WINSTON-SALEM, NC|WINSTON SALEM, NC|WINSTON-SALEM, NC|WINSTON SALEM, NC

Previous registration

From

Left

Joined

Gap, days

Kind

Move type

SAGEPOINT FINANCIAL, INC.

ESI FINANCIAL ADVISORS

Dec 17, 2020

Mar 1, 2021

Firm change

Ibd to ibd

ESI FINANCIAL ADVISORS

SAGEPOINT FINANCIAL, INC.

Mar 11, 2014

Firm change

Other