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This advisor's name and 1 more verified contact
Career history, every move, licensing and registration changes, outside business activity and the contact routes the firm publishes, each with the official record linked.
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A Financial Advisor In Ohio
RETIREMENT SPECIALIST / FOUNDER OF FIKE ADVISORS, LLCat Fike Advisors, LLCIA-only· Wooster, OhIAPD 2715503
As of · the IAPD feed
- At current firm
- 16 y
- In the industry
- 16.9 y
- Prior registered firms
- 1
- Signals
- 1
since Aug 4, 2010
As of · the IAPD feed
1 verified contact
1 business email
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State registrations
2
current, as an IAR
Firms today
1
current registrations
Exams
S66
IA exams only
Recruiter briefHow to read thisEvery line is a fact from a public record, or a measurement DFX made on the registration history of every advisor (2023 to 2025 cohorts), read for this advisor’s own firm where the sample allows. A move indicator means advisors with that fact moved more often; a retention indicator means they moved less. Neither says what this person will do. Recruiting value and movement evidence are kept apart on purpose.
facts first, then what DFX measured about them; never a statement of intent
Recruiting value
- Practice attractivenessnotableteam book $100M to $250M (team level observed); 16.9 years in the industry
- Team depthnone0 of the 0 people who once moved firms with this advisor are registered here now (a team seen in registrations; web team pages are not used until they pass review).
- Entrepreneurial profilenoneNamed in the full brief.
- Real estate activitynoneNamed in the full brief.
- Contactabilitystrongpublished business email at fikeadvisors.com (firm_website)
Movement evidence
- Movement signalnone0 of 0 dated or circumstantial readings historically went with moving. The forward-tested move model places this advisor in its Baseline band.
- Recent change activitynoneNamed in the full brief.
- Independence preparationnoneNo concrete evidence of preparation for independence.
- Historical mobilitynone1 prior firm, median stay 9.4 years. Patterns that went with staying: median tenure at prior firms eight years or more; fifteen or more years at the current firm.
Career
- 16.9 years in the industry
- 16.1 years at the current firm
- 1 prior registered firm; median stay 9.4 years
- Team book $100M to $250M (team level observed)
- retention indicatormedian tenure at prior firms eight years or moreAcross all advisors, 3.3% with this moved within a year, against 6.2% without it (0.53x, 2023 to 2025 cohorts).
- retention indicatorfifteen or more years at the current firmAcross all advisors, 2.2% with this moved within a year, against 5.4% without it (0.41x, 2023 to 2025 cohorts).
Source: IAPD adviser registrations only (broker-only history is not in this feed)
Licensing and credentials
- Registered in 2 states (firm median 1)
- Exams: Series 66
Source: IAPD individual feed; broker exams and states appear once the per-person record is read
Around this advisor
- No recent movement observed around this advisor.
Regulatory record
In the full brief, with the official record linked.
+4 details in the full brief
The named explanations, the practice profile, what stands out and the conversation themes, with the official record linked.
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Professional profileWhat is shown hereOnly 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.
title, designations and roles as the firm prints them
- Title
- RETIREMENT SPECIALIST / FOUNDER OF FIKE ADVISORS, LLCreportedfikeadvisors.comfirm site, Sep 24, 2026
Registration history
IAPD current and previous registrations
- Fike Advisors, LLC state registered currentsince Aug 4, 2010 · Wooster, Oh
- Essential Financial Planning, Inc. unclassifiedDec 8, 2014 to May 7, 2024 · Aurora, Oh
Moves
a registration end followed by a registration begin elsewhere
- Essential Financial Planning, Inc. to no registered destinationleft May 7, 2024 · Departure, no registered destination
Signals
- May 7, 2024 · Advisor departure · fact
Transition signalsWhat these will draw onThe 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.
No combined mobility score is published yet. The signals above are on record, each with its own history and base rate.
Provenance
- Source
- IAPD individual compilation feedreportedadviserinfo.sec.gov
- Firm class
- STATE REGISTEREDderived
- Years in industry
- 16.9 yderivedfrom the earlier of the first exam and the first registration on IAPD
- Not published
- disclosure flags, the raw outside business text and any address in it, personal outside activities, branch street addressoutside businesses appear above as structured facts, reviewed, with a short quote