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NORFOLK, VA

Merrill Lynch Wealth Management Branch Office

Through our branch’s experience and leadership, we welcome working with individuals, families, business owners, executives and institutions—in rising or turbulent markets—and we are well-positioned to help you address your wealth planning challenges and opportunities.

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Branch Office Profile

About Us

The advisors at the branch can offer financial strategies that come from years of combined wealth management knowledge and experience. We also stress that our role goes beyond wealth planning advice and guidance. Employing the broad resources of Merrill Lynch Wealth Management, advisors can assist with retirement income planning, guidance on concentrated stock positions and traditional investments, as well as providing access to Bank of America’s estate planning services, while working with your outside professionals, such as accountants and tax attorneys.

Culture

The branch’s financial advisors are committed to client service and satisfaction. Every relationship begins by helping clients identify their personal and professional goals, including those related to lifestyle and multi-generational issues. With that information, combined with the ability to draw on industry analysts and specialists, financial advisors have the tools to fully understand each client’s current financial situation and can collaborate with them on creating financial strategies designed to meet their long-term objectives.

Community 

Through our volunteerism and charitable outreach, the branch helps support the economic, social and cultural life of the communities in which we live and work. In virtually every Merrill location across the country, employees are involved in fundraising activities meant to benefit their many neighborhoods and causes. And as a local branch office, we feel it is important for us to “give back” and help maintain vibrant, healthy communities and non-profit organizations.

Client Commitment

As a Merrill client, you have access to the knowledge and experience of industry-skilled advisors who are supported by the investing insights of Merrill, a disciplined wealth planning platform, and the technological resources of a leading global financial services firm. Our advisors strive to fully understand your personal and business needs, and those of your family and future generations. We will put your interests first to help you pursue your financial and life goals.

Advisors at This Location

Our deeply committed advisors call upon Merrill’s tools and resources to help clients pursue personal and professional financial goals, as they also help them prepare for financial and lifestyle challenges that may lie ahead.

Carrie A. Riordan,

CEPA,

ChFC

Financial Advisor

Michelle L. McCoy

Vice President

Financial Advisor

Christopher J Coffing

Senior Vice President

Senior Financial Advisor

Charles C Heaton,

CRPC,

CRPC

Senior Vice President

Wealth Management Advisor

Ralph R. Chesson, III

First Vice President

Wealth Management Advisor

D. Nathan Johnson,

CPFA,

CPFA,

CFP,

CFP,

CIMA,

CIMA

Managing Director

Wealth Management Advisor

Michael E Duffy

Senior Vice President

Senior Financial Advisor

Kristina Sevier

Senior Financial Advisor

Let’s Have a Conversation

Helping you reach your goals starts with getting to know you personally. Through understanding what matters most to you, together we can help you create a financial approach that reflects your personality. Only then can we offer an approach that is built around your life priorities and the advice you need to help you address fluctuations in the market and changes in your life. Let’s work together to help you achieve your goals.

Events

Health: Retain your Brain

July 16th, 2024 | 6:00PM-7:00PM EST

An exclusive opportunity - Greater Virginia Virtual Summer Speaker Series: Income, Health & Security. Join us virtually as we discuss topics that matter most to you.

Ryan Sullivan, Applied Insights Managing Director, will teach us how to age-proof our most valuable asset: our brain. We’ll discuss actionable steps you can take to protect your brain and optimize your brain health today, so you can be the best version of yourself.

An exclusive opportunity - Greater Virginia Virtual Summer Speaker Series: Income, Health & Security. Join us virtually as we discuss topics that matter most to you.

Ryan Sullivan, Applied Insights Managing Director, will teach us how to age-proof our most valuable asset: our brain. We’ll discuss actionable steps you can take to protect your brain and optimize your brain health today, so you can be the best version of yourself.

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Security: Faces of Fraud

Aug 14th, 2024 | 6:00PM-7:00PM EST

An exclusive opportunity - Greater Virginia Virtual Summer Speaker Series: Income, Health & Security. Join us virtually as we discuss topics that matter most to you.

  • Jeff Lanza, Author and Speaker, is a retired FBI Agent. He will share an exclusive presentation on how to stay safe from the latest threats. Jeff will offer clear-cut ways to help protect yourself and prevent fraud.

Jeff Lanza is a leading speaker on cybersecurity and identity theft, specializing in how individuals and businesses can stay safe from the growing threat of cybercrime and fraud. Prior to becoming an author and speaker, he served as an FBI special agent for over two decades, investigating cybercrime, organized crime, human trafficking, and terrorism.

An exclusive opportunity - Greater Virginia Virtual Summer Speaker Series: Income, Health & Security. Join us virtually as we discuss topics that matter most to you.

  • Jeff Lanza, Author and Speaker, is a retired FBI Agent. He will share an exclusive presentation on how to stay safe from the latest threats. Jeff will offer clear-cut ways to help protect yourself and prevent fraud.

Jeff Lanza is a leading speaker on cybersecurity and identity theft, specializing in how individuals and businesses can stay safe from the growing threat of cybercrime and fraud. Prior to becoming an author and speaker, he served as an FBI special agent for over two decades, investigating cybercrime, organized crime, human trafficking, and terrorism.

RSVP OnlineCall to reserve

Careers 4

No matter where your career may currently be, if you have the mindset and motivation of a Merrill financial advisor, you should consider the opportunity to become one yourself.

Work Culture

Our culture is dedicated to providing continuing professional training, mentoring and technology for new and experienced advisors.

Rewarding Career

We help you support the financial aspects of a client’s life, focused on providing individually customized investment approaches and wealth management advice, products and services.

Access to Resources

Our size and scope offer access to a wide range of technology, intellectual capital and marketing resources designed to enhance client relationships and build your business.

Grow & Learn

Merrill Lynch Wealth Management has been training financial advisors since 1946, offering advisors the critical skills and knowledge they need to assist individuals in pursuing their unique financial goals.

Learn more about careers at Merrill Lynch Wealth Management