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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
Steve Durant Pontiff
Feed of 09/14/2026
At current firm
0 y
since Dec 2, 2025
In the industry
33 y
since May 1, 1993 (earliest exam, job or registration)
Prior registered firms
4
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
2
dated events on this person
Registration history
IAPD current and previous registrations
- Primerica Advisors national BD currentsince Dec 2, 2025 · Houston, Tx
- St. Bernard Financial Services, Inc. BD affiliatedJan 5, 2023 to Dec 22, 2023 · Sugarland, Tx
- Lincoln Investment independent RIAAug 28, 2013 to Dec 31, 2022 · Sugar Land, Tx
- Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated wirehouseDec 5, 2011 to Dec 20, 2012 · Sugar Land, Tx
- Morgan Stanley wirehouseAug 8, 2011 to Aug 19, 2011 · Sugar Land, Tx
Moves
a registration end followed by a registration begin elsewhere
- St. Bernard Financial Services, Inc. to Primerica Advisorsleft Dec 22, 2023, registered Dec 2, 2025 (711 days) · Affiliated broker-dealer or bank to another
- Lincoln Investment to St. Bernard Financial Services, Inc.left Dec 31, 2022, registered Jan 5, 2023 (5 days) · RIA to affiliated broker-dealer or bank
- Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated to Lincoln Investmentleft Dec 20, 2012, registered Aug 28, 2013 (251 days) · Other
- Morgan Stanley to Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporatedleft Aug 19, 2011, registered Dec 5, 2011 (108 days) · Wirehouse to wirehouse
Signals
- Steve Durant Pontiff left St. Bernard Financial Services, Inc. for Primerica Advisors (registered 2025-12-02)Dec 22, 2023 · Advisor changed firm · fact
- Steve Durant Pontiff left Lincoln Investment for St. Bernard Financial Services, Inc. (registered 2023-01-05)Dec 31, 2022 · 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
- National broker-dealer RIAderived
- Years in industry
- 33derivedfrom the earliest dated exam, employment or registration
- Not published
- disclosure flags, outside business text, branch street address