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RIA / WealthAdvisordual registered (broker-dealer)11 years in industry

Seth Edwin Steele

Advisor at CALAMOS ADVISORS LLC

Naperville, IL

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Data as of Sep 14, 2026 (this record's last observation) from federal regulator filings. Page built Sep 21, 2026, 5:00 AM UTC and rebuilt at most every 15 minutes.

Relationships: 3
Dated events: 1
On other graphs: 0
Observed: Jan 7, 2019 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: CALAMOS ADVISORS LLC
Current firm class: asset managerderived
Book size: not publicno per-advisor AUM is published by the SEC, FINRA or IAPD, and DFX estimates none
Industry start: May 1, 2015earliest registration or exam on IAPD
Years in industry: 11derivedfrom the industry start date
Years at current firm: 2derivedfrom the current registration's begin date
Prior firms: 2
Current registrations: 1
Registered states: 1
Exams: S66
First exam: Jan 4, 2019
First registration: Jan 7, 2019
Dual registered: yes, broker-dealer
Other names: Seth Edwin Steele|Seth Steele|Seth E Steele
IAPD individual key: 6887037

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
CALAMOS ADVISORS LLC	Asset manager	Apr 17, 2024	n/a	yes	Naperville, IL	Current employment
MORGAN STANLEY	Wirehouse	May 11, 2021	Apr 29, 2022	no	Chicago, IL	Previous registration
MERRILL LYNCH, PIERCE, FENNER & SMITH INCORPORATED	Wirehouse	Jan 7, 2019	Mar 26, 2021	no	CINCINNATI, OH\|NEW YORK, NY\|COLUMBUS, OH\|COLUMBUS, OH\|INDIANAPOLIS, IN\|COLUMBUS, OH\|Columbus, OH\|COLUMBUS, OH\|COLUMBUS, OH\|PHILADELPHIA, PA\|COLUMBUS, OH\|COLUMBUS, OH\|PHILADELPHIA, PA\|COLUMBUS, OH	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
MORGAN STANLEY	CALAMOS ADVISORS LLC	Apr 29, 2022	Apr 17, 2024	719	Firm change after gap	Other
MERRILL LYNCH, PIERCE, FENNER & SMITH INCORPORATED	MORGAN STANLEY	Mar 26, 2021	May 11, 2021	46	Firm change	Wirehouse to wirehouse

Relationships

Registered with (3)

→ CALAMOS ADVISORS LLCRegistered adviserregistration: current employment
Apr 17, 2024 to presentfactForm ADV
→ MORGAN STANLEYRegistered adviserregistration: previous registration
May 11, 2021 to Apr 29, 2022factForm ADV
→ MERRILL LYNCH, PIERCE, FENNER & SMITH INCORPORATEDRegistered adviserregistration: previous registration
Jan 7, 2019 to Mar 26, 2021factForm ADV

Dated events

Occurred
Apr 29, 2022
Advisor changed firm
Seth Edwin Steele left Morgan Stanley for Calamos Advisors Llc (registered 2024-04-17)
Form ADVobserved 6 days ago

Provenance

Graph: RIA / Wealth Management
Canonical id: dfx:ria:928881f7-7ead-8d9e-0310-26925c8cf3bf
First observed: Jan 7, 2019
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.

Seth Edwin Steele

Advisor at CALAMOS ADVISORS LLC

Naperville, IL

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Search this name across graphsid dfx:ria:928881f7-7ead-8d9e-0310-26925c8cf3bf

Data as of Sep 14, 2026 (this record's last observation) from federal regulator filings. Page built Sep 21, 2026, 5:00 AM UTC and rebuilt at most every 15 minutes.

Firm

Class

Began

Ended

Current

Branch

Basis

CALAMOS ADVISORS LLC

Asset manager

Apr 17, 2024

n/a

yes

Naperville, IL

Current employment

MORGAN STANLEY

Wirehouse

May 11, 2021

Apr 29, 2022

Chicago, IL

Previous registration

MERRILL LYNCH, PIERCE, FENNER & SMITH INCORPORATED

Wirehouse

Jan 7, 2019

Mar 26, 2021

Previous registration

From

Left

Joined

Gap, days

Kind

Move type

MORGAN STANLEY

CALAMOS ADVISORS LLC

Apr 29, 2022

Apr 17, 2024

719

Firm change after gap

Other

MERRILL LYNCH, PIERCE, FENNER & SMITH INCORPORATED

MORGAN STANLEY

Mar 26, 2021

May 11, 2021

Firm change

Wirehouse to wirehouse