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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

Paul Samuel Shuman

The Planning Groupindependent RIANorthfield, IlIA-onlyIAPD 4793240

Certified Financial Planner

Feed of 09/14/2026

Also filed as Paul Samuel Shuman

At current firm

7 y

since Oct 11, 2018

In the industry

22 y

since Jul 29, 2004 (earliest exam, job or registration)

Prior registered firms

IAPD previous registrations

State registrations

current, as an IAR

Firms today

current registrations

Exams

S66

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: CPA, CFPreportedplanning-group.comas printed on the bio page, Sep 16, 2026
Partner or owner: “Paul Shuman joined the financial services industry in 2004 and became a partner in The Planning Group in 2018.”reportedplanning-group.comthe sentence on the bio page
Professional profile: planning-group.com/paul-s-shumanreportedplanning-group.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

The Planning Group independent RIA current
since Oct 11, 2018 · Northfield, Il
Cambridge Investment Research Advisors, Inc. BD affiliated
Apr 16, 2009 to Feb 7, 2019 · Des Plaines, Il
Tower Square Securities, Inc. former
Nov 3, 2006 to Apr 21, 2009 · Des Plaines, Il
Securian Financial Services, Inc. former
Jul 30, 2004 to Oct 13, 2006 · Deerfield, Il

Moves

a registration end followed by a registration begin elsewhere

Cambridge Investment Research Advisors, Inc. to The Planning Group
left Feb 7, 2019, registered Oct 11, 2018 (-119 days) · Affiliated broker-dealer or bank to a newly registered adviser · moved with a team
Tower Square Securities, Inc. to Cambridge Investment Research Advisors, Inc.
left Apr 21, 2009, registered Apr 16, 2009 (-5 days) · Other
Securian Financial Services, Inc. to Tower Square Securities, Inc.
left Oct 13, 2006, registered Nov 3, 2006 (21 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: Independent wealth managerderived
Years in industry: 22derivedfrom the earliest dated exam, employment or registration
Not published: disclosure flags, outside business text, branch street address