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RIA / WealthAdvisordual registered (broker-dealer)26 years in industry

SIMON MATTHEW HOLFORD

Advisor at PASADENA PRIVATE WEALTH, LLC

PASADENA, CA

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Relationships: 2
Dated events: 0
On other graphs: 2
Observed: Mar 22, 2001 to Sep 14, 2026

Across DFX

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Private Equityidentity

Simon Matthew Holford

same person, same CRD on Schedule A · confidence 95% · family precision 100%

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Simon Matthew Holford

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Facts

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Current firm: PASADENA PRIVATE WEALTH, LLC
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: Jul 1, 2000earliest registration or exam on IAPD
Years in industry: 26derivedfrom the industry start date
Years at current firm: 8derivedfrom the current registration's begin date
Prior firms: 1
Current registrations: 1
Registered states: 3
Exams: S66
First exam: Mar 5, 2001
First registration: Mar 22, 2001
Dual registered: yes, broker-dealer
IAPD individual key: 4249463

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
PASADENA PRIVATE WEALTH, LLC	Independent wealth	May 21, 2018	n/a	yes	PASADENA, CA	Current employment
MERRILL LYNCH, PIERCE, FENNER & SMITH INCORPORATED	Wirehouse	Mar 22, 2001	May 22, 2018	no	PASADENA, CA\|PASADENA, CA	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
MERRILL LYNCH, PIERCE, FENNER & SMITH INCORPORATED	PASADENA PRIVATE WEALTH, LLC	May 22, 2018	May 21, 2018	-1	Firm change	Wirehouse to new firm

Team moves

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

Team	Left	Joined	From	Kind
7691:295178:CA:2018-05-22	May 22, 2018	May 21, 2018	PASADENA, CA	Firm change

Relationships

Registered with (2)

→ PASADENA PRIVATE WEALTH, LLCRegistered adviserregistration: current employment
May 21, 2018 to presentfactForm ADV
→ MERRILL LYNCH, PIERCE, FENNER & SMITH INCORPORATEDRegistered adviserregistration: previous registration
Mar 22, 2001 to May 22, 2018factForm ADV

Dated events

No dated event names this entity yet.

Provenance

Graph: RIA / Wealth Management
Canonical id: dfx:ria:ea5ad3a0-5112-63a4-57fb-32c832f7f40a
First observed: Mar 22, 2001
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.

SIMON MATTHEW HOLFORD

Advisor at PASADENA PRIVATE WEALTH, LLC

PASADENA, CA

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Firm

Class

Began

Ended

Current

Branch

Basis

PASADENA PRIVATE WEALTH, LLC

Independent wealth

May 21, 2018

n/a

yes

PASADENA, CA

Current employment

MERRILL LYNCH, PIERCE, FENNER & SMITH INCORPORATED

Wirehouse

Mar 22, 2001

May 22, 2018

PASADENA, CA|PASADENA, CA

Previous registration

From

Left

Joined

Gap, days

Kind

Move type

MERRILL LYNCH, PIERCE, FENNER & SMITH INCORPORATED

PASADENA PRIVATE WEALTH, LLC

May 22, 2018

May 21, 2018

-1

Firm change

Wirehouse to new firm

Team

Left

Joined

From

Kind

7691:295178:CA:2018-05-22

May 22, 2018

May 21, 2018

PASADENA, CA

Firm change