Top 40 Advisors Under 40 countdown: #1-10

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For the 10 advisors who topped the annual Top 40 Under 40 ranking, the numbers alone are impressive: $59 million in combined revenue and $11 billion in AUM.

Advisors on the ranking this year primarily come from three wirehouses: Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley and UBS. Some names, such as Merrill’s Dane Runia and Morgan’s Nick Kavallieratos, will be familiar to those who are keen watchers of this list. But there are new faces as well.

Scroll through to see who topped the ranking this year.

Finalists for the Top 40 Under 40 were to be no older than 39 as of Dec. 31, 2018. They also had to be registered with a firm in the employee channel. Nominees’ information was confirmed with their employers. Production totals were used to determine the rankings. Production and AUM figures are as of Sept. 30, 2018.

To see Nos. 11 to 20, please click here. To see last year’s ranking, please click here. And to see the 2019 edition of our companion ranking, the Top 25 Regional BD Advisors, please click here.

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No. 10 Kevin Bruegge

Firm: Merrill Lynch Private Banking & Investment Group
Age: 38
Production: $4,135,628
AUM: $903 million
Stephen Bealer Merrill Lynch advisor

No. 9 Stephen Bealer

Firm: Merrill Lynch
Age: 37
Production: $4,441,916
AUM: $722 million
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Jeff Linett

No. 8 Seth Haye

Firm: Morgan Stanley
Age: 38
Production: $4,560,541
AUM: $633 million
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No. 7 Michael Lorenzo

Firm: UBS
Age: 38
Production: $4,624,217
AUM: $201 million
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No. 6 Mihir Patel

Firm: Morgan Stanley
Age: 38
Production: $4,914,429
AUM: $418 million
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No. 5 Nicole Christians

Firm: Merrill Lynch
Age: 37
Production: $5,033,318
AUM: $760 million
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Juliette TInnus

No. 4 William Wilson

Firm: UBS
Age: 34
Production: $5,279,609
AUM: $846 million
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No. 3 Arash Nassi

Firm: Morgan Stanley
Age: 39
Production: $5,299,660
AUM: $184 million
Nick Kavallieratos Morgan Stanley advisor

No. 2 Nicholas Kavallieratos

Firm: Morgan Stanley
Age: 39
Production: $10,093,461
AUM: $4.167 billion
Dane Runia Merrill Lynch advisor
Photographer: Eric Delphenich

No. 1 Dane Runia

Firm: Merrill Lynch Private Banking & Investment Group
Age: 35
Production: $11,279,202
AUM: $2.662 billion
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