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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

Bruce D Kern

Forefrontindependent RIAAustin, Tx IA-onlyIAPD 7224063
Feed of 09/15/2026
Also filed as Bruce David Kern
At current firm
1 y
since Mar 12, 2025
In the industry
27 y
since Sep 1, 1999 (earliest exam, job or registration)
Prior registered firms
1
IAPD previous registrations
State registrations
2
current, as an IAR
Firms today
1
current registrations
Exams
S66
IA exams only
Book size
not public
not estimated here
Signals
1
dated events on this person
Professional profile
what the firm itself publishes, with the page it was read from
Professional profile
linkedin.com/in/bruce-kern-1014reportedadviserinfo.sec.govForm ADV Item 1.I, Sep 14, 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
  • Forefront independent RIA current
    since Mar 12, 2025 · Austin, Tx
  • Edward Jones national BD
    Jun 23, 2020 to Sep 3, 2024 · The Villages, Fl
Moves
a registration end followed by a registration begin elsewhere
  • Edward Jones to Forefront
    left Sep 3, 2024, registered Mar 12, 2025 (190 days) · Affiliated broker-dealer or bank to independent RIA
Signals
  • Bruce D Kern left Edward Jones for Forefront (registered 2025-03-12)
    Sep 3, 2024 · 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
27derivedfrom the earliest dated exam, employment or registration
Not published
disclosure flags, outside business text, branch street address