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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

Lauren Castrop Smith

Amb Wealth, LLCindependent RIAThomasville, Ga dual registrantIAPD 5698547

Feed of 09/15/2026

Also filed as Lauren Castrop

At current firm

2 y

since Oct 25, 2023

In the industry

15 y

since Jun 15, 2011 (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

Title: Wealth Associatereportedambwealth.comfirm site, Sep 15, 2026
Professional profile: linkedin.com/in/lauren-smith-b28a7b59reportedambwealth.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

Amb Wealth, LLC independent RIA current
since Oct 25, 2023 · St Simons Island, Ga
Kovack Advisors, Inc. BD affiliated
Nov 2, 2020 to Oct 6, 2023 · Ft. Lauderdale, Fl
Kovack Advisors, Inc. BD affiliated
Apr 4, 2018 to Oct 28, 2019 · Fort Lauderdale, Fl
Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated wirehouse
Mar 18, 2016 to Apr 13, 2017 · Boca Raton, Fl
Morgan Stanley wirehouse
Sep 30, 2015 to Apr 11, 2016 · Boca Raton, Fl

Moves

a registration end followed by a registration begin elsewhere

Kovack Advisors, Inc. to Amb Wealth, LLC
left Oct 6, 2023, registered Oct 25, 2023 (19 days) · Affiliated broker-dealer or bank to independent RIA
Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated to Kovack Advisors, Inc.
left Apr 13, 2017, registered Apr 4, 2018 (356 days) · Wirehouse to affiliated broker-dealer or bank
Morgan Stanley to Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated
left Apr 11, 2016, registered Mar 18, 2016 (-24 days) · Wirehouse to wirehouse · moved with a team

Signals

Lauren Castrop Smith left Kovack Advisors, Inc. for Amb Wealth, Llc (registered 2023-10-25)
Oct 6, 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: 15derivedfrom the earliest dated exam, employment or registration
Not published: disclosure flags, outside business text, branch street address