Brandon Martinez-Larragoiti began his career as a financial advisor with Merrill Lynch Wealth Management in 2010 after attending the University of Southern California and then the University of San Francisco.  He graduated magna cum laude and earned his Bachelor’s degree in finance from USF in 2009.  After joining Roberto at Merrill, he earned the CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER^™, CFP^® certification from the Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards Inc.  Since earning his CFP^® certification in 2016, he continues to pride himself on implementing goals based wealth management strategies with clients.  He focuses on complex issues such as tax minimization strategies, estate planning techniques, concentrated stock strategies, impact investing & ESG investing, and discretionary money management.  Brandon is passionate about the philanthropy and impact investing.  The breadth of impact investing capabilities at Merrill Lynch Wealth Management allows Brandon to help clients align their core values to their investments.  Brandon attended the Wharton School to earn the Certified Investment Management Analyst, CIMA^® certification and attended the Booth School to earn the Certified Private Wealth Advisor, CPWA^® certification both from the Investments & Wealth Institute^™ (The Institute). 

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 *Impact investing and/or Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) managers may take into consideration factors beyond traditional financial information to select securities, which could result in relative investment performance deviating from other strategies or broad market benchmarks, depending on whether such sectors or investments are in or out of favor in the market. Further, ESG strategies may rely on certain values based criteria to eliminate exposures found in similar strategies or broad market benchmarks, which could also result in relative investment performance deviating