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RIA / WealthAdvisorCertified Financial Plannerdual registered (broker-dealer)24 years in industry

DAVID WILLIAM HART

Advisor at CAMBRIDGE INVESTMENT RESEARCH ADVISORS, INC.

Asheville, NC | Mills River, NC

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Data as of Sep 14, 2026 (this record's last observation) from federal regulator filings. Page built Sep 20, 2026, 11:06 PM UTC and rebuilt at most every 15 minutes.

Relationships: 4
Dated events: 2
On other graphs: 0
Observed: May 21, 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

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 8, 2002earliest registration or exam on IAPD
Years in industry: 24derivedfrom the industry start date
Years at current firm: 0derivedfrom the current registration's begin date
Prior firms: 3
Current registrations: 1
Registered states: 2
Designations: Certified Financial Planner
Exams: S66|S63
First exam: May 8, 2002
First registration: May 21, 2004
Dual registered: yes, broker-dealer
IAPD individual key: 4503764

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 23, 2025	n/a	yes	Mills River, NC\|Asheville, NC	Current employment
COMMONWEALTH FINANCIAL NETWORK	National bd RIA	Aug 23, 2023	Oct 22, 2025	no	Asheville, NC\|WALTHAM, MA	Previous registration
LPL FINANCIAL LLC	Bd affiliated wealth	Dec 16, 2005	Sep 5, 2023	no	HICKORY, NC\|WINSTON-SALEM, NC\|ASHEVILLE, NC\|ASHEVILLE, NC\|CANDLER, NC\|ASHEVILLE, NC\|ASHEVILLE, NC\|ASHEVILLE, NC\|ASHEVILLE, NC\|ARDEN, NC	Previous registration
A. G. EDWARDS & SONS, INC.	n/a	May 21, 2004	Dec 21, 2005	no	ASHEVILLE, 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
COMMONWEALTH FINANCIAL NETWORK	CAMBRIDGE INVESTMENT RESEARCH ADVISORS, INC.	Oct 22, 2025	Oct 23, 2025	1	Firm change	Ibd to ibd
LPL FINANCIAL LLC	COMMONWEALTH FINANCIAL NETWORK	Sep 5, 2023	Aug 23, 2023	-13	Firm change	Ibd to ibd
A. G. EDWARDS & SONS, INC.	LPL FINANCIAL LLC	Dec 21, 2005	Dec 16, 2005	-5	Firm change	Other

Team moves

moves this advisor made together with colleagues (two or more registrations ending and beginning together)

Team	Left	Joined	From	Kind
6413:8032:NC:2023-08-28	Sep 5, 2023	Aug 23, 2023	ARDEN, NC	Firm change

Relationships

Registered with (4)

→ CAMBRIDGE INVESTMENT RESEARCH ADVISORS, INC.Registered adviserregistration: current employment
Oct 23, 2025 to presentfactForm ADV
→ COMMONWEALTH FINANCIAL NETWORKRegistered adviserregistration: previous registration
Aug 23, 2023 to Oct 22, 2025factForm ADV
→ LPL FINANCIAL LLCRegistered adviserregistration: previous registration
Dec 16, 2005 to Sep 5, 2023factForm ADV
→ A. G. EDWARDS & SONS, INC.Registered adviserregistration: previous registration
May 21, 2004 to Dec 21, 2005factForm ADV

Dated events

Occurred
Oct 22, 2025
Advisor changed firm
David William Hart left Commonwealth Financial Network for Cambridge Investment Research Advisors, Inc. (registered 2025-10-23)
Form ADVobserved 5 days ago
Occurred
Sep 5, 2023
Advisor changed firm
David William Hart left Lpl Financial Llc for Commonwealth Financial Network (registered 2023-08-23)
Form ADVobserved 5 days ago

Provenance

Graph: RIA / Wealth Management
Canonical id: dfx:ria:8727e1f6-5d7d-fb13-1afe-d6060760b2e6
First observed: May 21, 2004
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.

DAVID WILLIAM HART

Advisor at CAMBRIDGE INVESTMENT RESEARCH ADVISORS, INC.

Asheville, NC | Mills River, NC

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Data as of Sep 14, 2026 (this record's last observation) from federal regulator filings. Page built Sep 20, 2026, 11:06 PM UTC and rebuilt at most every 15 minutes.

Firm

Class

Began

Ended

Current

Branch

Basis

CAMBRIDGE INVESTMENT RESEARCH ADVISORS, INC.

Bd affiliated wealth

Oct 23, 2025

n/a

yes

Mills River, NC|Asheville, NC

Current employment

COMMONWEALTH FINANCIAL NETWORK

National bd RIA

Aug 23, 2023

Oct 22, 2025

Asheville, NC|WALTHAM, MA

Previous registration

LPL FINANCIAL LLC

Bd affiliated wealth

Dec 16, 2005

Sep 5, 2023

Previous registration

A. G. EDWARDS & SONS, INC.

n/a

May 21, 2004

Dec 21, 2005

ASHEVILLE, NC

Previous registration

From

Left

Joined

Gap, days

Kind

Move type

COMMONWEALTH FINANCIAL NETWORK

CAMBRIDGE INVESTMENT RESEARCH ADVISORS, INC.

Oct 22, 2025

Oct 23, 2025

Firm change

Ibd to ibd

LPL FINANCIAL LLC

COMMONWEALTH FINANCIAL NETWORK

Sep 5, 2023

Aug 23, 2023

-13

Firm change

Ibd to ibd

A. G. EDWARDS & SONS, INC.

LPL FINANCIAL LLC

Dec 21, 2005

Dec 16, 2005

-5

Firm change

Other

Team

Left

Joined

From

Kind

6413:8032:NC:2023-08-28

Sep 5, 2023

Aug 23, 2023

ARDEN, NC

Firm change