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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
Michael Kirk Elder
Feed of 09/14/2026
Also filed as Kirk Elder
At current firm
20 y
since Sep 1, 2006
In the industry
30 y
since Dec 18, 1995 (earliest exam, job or registration)
Prior registered firms
2
IAPD previous registrations
State registrations
2
current, as an IAR
Firms today
1
current registrations
Exams
S63, S66
IA exams only
Book size
not public
not estimated here
Signals
0
dated events on this person
Registration history
IAPD current and previous registrations
- Commonwealth Financial Network national BD currentsince Sep 1, 2006 · Morgan Hill, Ca
- Trustee Empowerment & Protection, Inc. institutionalJan 30, 2004 to Sep 1, 2006 · Morgan Hill, Ca
- Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated wirehouseMay 20, 2002 to Feb 20, 2003 · San Francisco, Ca
Moves
a registration end followed by a registration begin elsewhere
- Trustee Empowerment & Protection, Inc. to Commonwealth Financial Networkleft Sep 1, 2006, registered Sep 1, 2006 (0 days) · Other
- Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated to Trustee Empowerment & Protection, Inc.left Feb 20, 2003, registered Jan 30, 2004 (344 days) · Other
Signals
No dated event on this person.
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
- National broker-dealer RIAderived
- Years in industry
- 30derivedfrom the earliest dated exam, employment or registration
- Not published
- disclosure flags, outside business text, branch street address