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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

Joseph Laurens Nicholson

Nicholson Wealth Management Groupindependent RIACharleston, ScIA-onlyIAPD 2094678

Feed of 09/14/2026

Also filed as Joe Nicholson

At current firm

2 y

since Oct 3, 2023

In the industry

33 y

since Aug 4, 1993 (earliest exam, job or registration)

Prior registered firms

IAPD previous registrations

State registrations

current, as an IAR

Firms today

current registrations

Exams

S63, S65

IA exams only

Book size

not public

not estimated here

Signals

dated events on this person

Professional profile

what the firm itself publishes, with the page it was read from

Designations: CIMA, CKA, MBAreportednicholsonwmg.comas printed on the bio page, Sep 16, 2026
Years, as the firm states: 36reportednicholsonwmg.com“Joe has more than 36 years of experience working with individual and institutional clients as a personal wealth manager.”
Boards named: College of Charleston Alumni Associationreportednicholsonwmg.comphrases on the bio page
Professional profile: nicholsonwmg.com/joseph-nicholson.htmreportednicholsonwmg.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

Nicholson Wealth Management Group independent RIA current
since Oct 3, 2023 · Charleston, Sc
Wells Fargo Advisors wirehouse
Jul 21, 2017 to Oct 11, 2023 · Charleston, Sc
Wells Fargo Advisors wirehouse
Jun 15, 2002 to Jul 21, 2017 · Charleston, Sc
Wachovia Securities, Inc. unclassified
Feb 4, 2002 to Jun 20, 2002 · Charleston, Sc

Moves

a registration end followed by a registration begin elsewhere

Wells Fargo Advisors to Nicholson Wealth Management Group
left Oct 11, 2023, registered Oct 3, 2023 (-8 days) · Wirehouse to a newly registered adviser (no RAUM reported yet) · moved with a team
Wells Fargo Advisors to Wells Fargo Advisors
left Jul 21, 2017, registered Jul 21, 2017 (0 days) · channel change inside one enterprise, not a move
Wachovia Securities, Inc. to Wells Fargo Advisors
left Jun 20, 2002, registered Jun 15, 2002 (-5 days) · corporate re-registration, not a move

Signals

Joseph Laurens Nicholson left Wells Fargo Advisors for Nicholson Wealth Management Group (registered 2023-10-03)
Oct 11, 2023 · 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: 33derivedfrom the earliest dated exam, employment or registration
Not published: disclosure flags, outside business text, branch street address