Recruiters read it, so do compliance desks, and each of them fills in the reasons on your behalf. This page reads the same FINRA and SEC record firm by firm: how long you stayed, what kind of firm it was, and whether each exit falls inside the window around a sale, rename or wind-down there.
FINRA and the SEC each hold a record on you. Your browser fetches both and reads them on this device.
Your name and CRD stay in this browser unless you ask for a review.
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Everything on these cards comes from the record except two things we add: the channel each firm sits in, and the exit label at the top, which is inferred from the dates.
A move starts somewhere the record never reaches: a branch manager who left, a platform decision made three levels above you, a partner who wanted out, a firm that stopped being the firm you joined. Only the date survived.
These are questions, not conclusions. There is no field to type in and nothing to submit; your answers stay with you. The public record knows when and where; it cannot know why.
What the record can supply is other careers that reached this point by the same route, and what those records did next.
How the comparison is built →Every figure below comes either from your own record or from our movement dataset, which covers the trailing twelve months.
Four pages, built in this browser the moment you ask for it: your record firm by firm with every cleaning adjustment named, the published movement figures for your firm, your own tenures placed on the year’s departure curve, and a plain statement of what the data cannot tell you. Print it or save it as a PDF.
The rules are written out so you can check this page’s reading against your own memory of what happened.
Firm names and registration dates come straight from FINRA and SEC filings. A broker-dealer and an RIA registration at the same firm count as one tenure. A firm that changes its name is still one firm. Leave and rejoin more than 400 days later and it counts as a second tenure.
An exit dated between 90 days before and 550 days after a sale, rename or wind-down at that firm is labeled event-driven. Outside that window it is labeled as your own timing. Neither label exists in the record; both are ours.
Only registered roles are on the record. Years at an insurance agency or a bank program that does not register its people are invisible here even though they happened. Registrations under 45 days are read as filing noise, not moves.
Source: FINRA BrokerCheck and SEC Investment Adviser Public Disclosure, fetched by your browser when you run the lookup and current as of that moment. Continuum Search Group does not alter the underlying records; use of BrokerCheck data is subject to FINRA's Terms of Use. Movement context comes from our Market Intelligence dataset of SEC-derived registration filings.
The longer versions of all four answers are in the method section above.
What you have probably never seen is that same record sorted into the exits you timed and the exits that followed an ownership event at the firm. It takes ten seconds and no email.
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