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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
Cary Charles Cates
Certified Financial Planner
Feed of 09/14/2026
At current firm
8 y
since Nov 29, 2017
In the industry
16 y
since May 7, 2010 (earliest exam, job or registration)
Prior registered firms
2
IAPD previous registrations
State registrations
1
current, as an IAR
Firms today
1
current registrations
Exams
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
- Cates Fp, Cates Tax Advisory state registered currentsince Nov 29, 2017 · Gainesville, Tx
- Grunden Financial Advisory, Inc. formerJul 21, 2014 to Jun 8, 2016 · Denton, Tx
- Sagepoint Financial, Inc. formerJun 20, 2012 to Jun 19, 2013 · Denton, Tx
Moves
a registration end followed by a registration begin elsewhere
- Grunden Financial Advisory, Inc. to Cates Fp, Cates Tax Advisoryleft Jun 8, 2016, registered Nov 29, 2017 (539 days) · Other
- Sagepoint Financial, Inc. to Grunden Financial Advisory, Inc.left Jun 19, 2013, registered Jul 21, 2014 (397 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
- STATE REGISTEREDderived
- Years in industry
- 16derivedfrom the earliest dated exam, employment or registration
- Not published
- disclosure flags, outside business text, branch street address