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RIA / WealthAdvisorCertified Financial Plannerdual registered (broker-dealer)31 years in industry

BRIAN RAY GRIMES

Advisor at CAMBRIDGE INVESTMENT RESEARCH ADVISORS, INC.

Rockville, MD | Montgomery Village, MD

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Data as of Sep 14, 2026 (this record's last observation) from federal regulator filings. Page built Sep 20, 2026, 10:35 PM UTC and rebuilt at most every 15 minutes.

Relationships: 4
Dated events: 0
On other graphs: 0
Observed: Jun 26, 2002 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: Nov 16, 1994earliest registration or exam on IAPD
Years in industry: 31derivedfrom the industry start date
Years at current firm: 10derivedfrom the current registration's begin date
Prior firms: 3
Current registrations: 1
Registered states: 1
Designations: Certified Financial Planner
Exams: S63|S65
First exam: Nov 16, 1994
First registration: Jun 26, 2002
Dual registered: yes, broker-dealer
IAPD individual key: 2457477

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	Nov 2, 2015	n/a	yes	Rockville, MD\|Montgomery Village, MD	Current employment
LINCOLN INVESTMENT	Independent wealth	Feb 23, 2004	Nov 5, 2015	no	Rockville, MD\|GAITHERSBURG, MD	Previous registration
OSAIC FA, INC.	Former SEC adviser	Sep 3, 2002	Feb 17, 2004	no	LUTHERVILLE, MD	Previous registration
UVEST FINANCIAL SERVICES GROUP, INC.	n/a	Jun 26, 2002	Aug 16, 2002	no	FREDERICK, MD	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
LINCOLN INVESTMENT	CAMBRIDGE INVESTMENT RESEARCH ADVISORS, INC.	Nov 5, 2015	Nov 2, 2015	-3	Firm change	Other
OSAIC FA, INC.	LINCOLN INVESTMENT	Feb 17, 2004	Feb 23, 2004	6	Firm change	Other
UVEST FINANCIAL SERVICES GROUP, INC.	OSAIC FA, INC.	Aug 16, 2002	Sep 3, 2002	18	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
519:134139:MD:2015-11-05	Nov 5, 2015	Nov 2, 2015	GAITHERSBURG, MD	Firm change

Relationships

Registered with (4)

→ CAMBRIDGE INVESTMENT RESEARCH ADVISORS, INC.Registered adviserregistration: current employment
Nov 2, 2015 to presentfactForm ADV
→ LINCOLN INVESTMENTRegistered adviserregistration: previous registration
Feb 23, 2004 to Nov 5, 2015factForm ADV
→ OSAIC FA, INC.Registered adviserregistration: previous registration
Sep 3, 2002 to Feb 17, 2004factForm ADV
→ UVEST FINANCIAL SERVICES GROUP, INC.Registered adviserregistration: previous registration
Jun 26, 2002 to Aug 16, 2002factForm ADV

Dated events

No dated event names this entity yet.

Provenance

Graph: RIA / Wealth Management
Canonical id: dfx:ria:f7073fb9-8240-83df-9840-d9923e13a310
First observed: Jun 26, 2002
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.

BRIAN RAY GRIMES

Advisor at CAMBRIDGE INVESTMENT RESEARCH ADVISORS, INC.

Rockville, MD | Montgomery Village, MD

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Data as of Sep 14, 2026 (this record's last observation) from federal regulator filings. Page built Sep 20, 2026, 10:35 PM UTC and rebuilt at most every 15 minutes.

Firm

Class

Began

Ended

Current

Branch

Basis

CAMBRIDGE INVESTMENT RESEARCH ADVISORS, INC.

Bd affiliated wealth

Nov 2, 2015

n/a

yes

Rockville, MD|Montgomery Village, MD

Current employment

LINCOLN INVESTMENT

Independent wealth

Feb 23, 2004

Nov 5, 2015

Rockville, MD|GAITHERSBURG, MD

Previous registration

OSAIC FA, INC.

Former SEC adviser

Sep 3, 2002

Feb 17, 2004

LUTHERVILLE, MD

Previous registration

UVEST FINANCIAL SERVICES GROUP, INC.

n/a

Jun 26, 2002

Aug 16, 2002

FREDERICK, MD

Previous registration

From

Left

Joined

Gap, days

Kind

Move type

LINCOLN INVESTMENT

CAMBRIDGE INVESTMENT RESEARCH ADVISORS, INC.

Nov 5, 2015

Nov 2, 2015

-3

Firm change

Other

OSAIC FA, INC.

LINCOLN INVESTMENT

Feb 17, 2004

Feb 23, 2004

Firm change

Other

UVEST FINANCIAL SERVICES GROUP, INC.

OSAIC FA, INC.

Aug 16, 2002

Sep 3, 2002

Firm change

Other

Team

Left

Joined

From

Kind

519:134139:MD:2015-11-05

Nov 5, 2015

Nov 2, 2015

GAITHERSBURG, MD

Firm change