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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 A. Ramstetter

Hightower Advisors, LLCBD affiliatedChicago, Il dual registrantIAPD 6194774

Feed of 09/15/2026

Also filed as Nicholas Ramstetter

At current firm

0 y

since Nov 12, 2025

In the industry

13 y

since Aug 2, 2013 (earliest exam, job or registration)

Prior registered firms

IAPD previous registrations

State registrations

current, as an IAR

Firms today

current registrations

Exams

S63, S66

IA exams only

Book size

not public

not estimated here

Signals

dated events on this person

Registration history

IAPD current and previous registrations

Hightower Advisors, LLC BD affiliated current
since Nov 12, 2025 · Chicago, Il
Strategic Advisers LLC national BD
Mar 31, 2025 to Oct 30, 2025 · Fairfield, Ct
Fidelity Personal And Workplace Advisors former
Aug 7, 2023 to Mar 31, 2025 · Fairfield, Ct
Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated wirehouse
Apr 13, 2015 to Mar 28, 2016 · New York, Ny
Morgan Stanley wirehouse
Aug 2, 2013 to Feb 24, 2015 · New York, Ny

Moves

a registration end followed by a registration begin elsewhere

Strategic Advisers LLC to Hightower Advisors, LLC
left Oct 30, 2025, registered Nov 12, 2025 (13 days) · Affiliated broker-dealer or bank to another
Fidelity Personal And Workplace Advisors to Strategic Advisers LLC
left Mar 31, 2025, registered Mar 31, 2025 (0 days) · corporate re-registration, not a move
Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated to Fidelity Personal And Workplace Advisors
left Mar 28, 2016, registered Aug 7, 2023 (2688 days) · Wirehouse to affiliated broker-dealer or bank
Morgan Stanley to Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated
left Feb 24, 2015, registered Apr 13, 2015 (48 days) · Wirehouse to wirehouse

Signals

Nicholas A. Ramstetter left Strategic Advisers Llc for Hightower Advisors, Llc (registered 2025-11-12)
Oct 30, 2025 · 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: 13derivedfrom the earliest dated exam, employment or registration
Not published: disclosure flags, outside business text, branch street address