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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

Nicholas Thomas Stafford

Arkadios Wealth AdvisorsBD affiliatedAtlanta, Gadual registrantIAPD 2900449

Chartered Financial Analyst

Feed of 09/14/2026

Also filed as Nicholas Thomas Lance

At current firm

3 y

since Jul 27, 2023

In the industry

28 y

since Nov 10, 1997 (earliest exam, job or registration)

Prior registered firms

IAPD previous registrations

State registrations

current, as an IAR

Firms today

current registrations

Exams

S65, S63

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

Title: Alternatives Investment Directorreportedarkadios.comfirm site, Sep 15, 2026
Designations: CFAreportedarkadios.comas printed on the bio page, Sep 16, 2026
Professional profile: arkadios.com/team-member/lance-staffordreportedarkadios.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

Arkadios Wealth Advisors BD affiliated current
since Jul 27, 2023 · Atlanta, Ga
Emerson Equity LLC BD affiliated
Apr 8, 2022 to Jul 21, 2023 · Irvine, Ca
Signaturefd, LLC independent RIA
Aug 23, 2017 to Apr 25, 2019 · Atlanta, Ga
Capital Bank And Trust Company asset manager
Jan 19, 2016 to Jul 18, 2017 · Irvine, Ca
Capital Guardian Trust Company former
Sep 18, 2014 to Jan 19, 2016 · Atlanta, Ga

Moves

a registration end followed by a registration begin elsewhere

Emerson Equity LLC to Arkadios Wealth Advisors
left Jul 21, 2023, registered Jul 27, 2023 (6 days) · Affiliated broker-dealer or bank to another
Signaturefd, LLC to Emerson Equity LLC
left Apr 25, 2019, registered Apr 8, 2022 (1079 days) · RIA to affiliated broker-dealer or bank
Capital Bank And Trust Company to Signaturefd, LLC
left Jul 18, 2017, registered Aug 23, 2017 (36 days) · Other
Capital Guardian Trust Company to Capital Bank And Trust Company
left Jan 19, 2016, registered Jan 19, 2016 (0 days) · corporate re-registration, not a move

Signals

Nicholas Thomas Stafford left Emerson Equity Llc for Arkadios Wealth Advisors (registered 2023-07-27)
Jul 21, 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: Broker-dealer affiliated wealth managerderived
Years in industry: 28derivedfrom the earliest dated exam, employment or registration
Not published: disclosure flags, outside business text, branch street address