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Registered investment advisers, the advisors registered through them, the capital they report, the private vehicles they run and the people who own them, as a graph with a filing date behind every number. RAUM is what the adviser filed, a move is two registration dates, and a class is a rule you can read.

Registered advisor

James Marshall Mars

Balefire, LLCindependent RIADallas, TxIA-onlyIAPD 1492554
Certified Financial Planner
Feed of 09/14/2026
Also filed as Jim Mars
At current firm
2 y
since Jan 10, 2024
In the industry
40 y
since Jun 13, 1986 (earliest exam, job or registration)
Prior registered firms
4
IAPD previous registrations
State registrations
1
current, as an IAR
Firms today
1
current registrations
Exams
S63
IA exams only
Book size
not public
not estimated here
Signals
2
dated events on this person
Professional profile
what the firm itself publishes, with the page it was read from
Title
Co-Founder / Chairman of the Boardreportedbalefirewealth.comfirm site, Sep 15, 2026
Designations
CFPreportedbalefirewealth.comas printed on the bio page, Sep 16, 2026
Professional profile
balefirewealth.com/team-members/james-marsreportedbalefirewealth.comfirm site, Sep 15, 2026

Only business contact points the firm published under its own name are shown; nothing is inferred, and personal accounts are never read. What the bio page says is printed as the firm printed it, with the sentence it came from; years are the firm’s claim, not a count of registrations.

Registration history
IAPD current and previous registrations
Moves
a registration end followed by a registration begin elsewhere
Signals
  • James Marshall Mars left Balefire, Llc for Lpl Financial Llc (registered 2013-10-02)
    Dec 31, 2023 · Advisor changed firm · fact
  • James Marshall Mars left Lpl Financial Llc for Balefire, Llc (registered 2024-01-10)
    Jun 22, 2022 · Advisor changed firm · fact
Transition signals

Mobility scoring is not published yet. The observable conditions this page will draw on once the historical validation is done: tenure, the firm’s own departures and ownership changes, new state registrations, a new adviser entity with this person on Schedule A, and colleagues’ moves. Until precision and lead time are measured on known moves, no label is printed. Read the methodology.

Provenance
Source
IAPD individual compilation feedreportedadviserinfo.sec.gov
Firm class
Independent wealth managerderived
Years in industry
40derivedfrom the earliest dated exam, employment or registration
Not published
disclosure flags, outside business text, branch street address