Robert Lewton joined Merrill in 1983 and is a First Vice President and Wealth Management Advisor. He provides a wide array of retirement and college planning services, as well as portfolio development. Mr. Lewton holds the Chartered Retirement Planning Counselor( CRPC® )designation. He is a Portfolio Manager, who can help clients pursue their objectives by managing on a discretionary basis his own Personalized or Defined Strategies, which may incorporate individual stocks and bonds, Merrill Lynch Wealth Management model portfolios, and third-party investment strategies. He holds a Certificate Degree in Financial Planning from New York University. He is also one of a select group of Merrill advisors that has earned the designation of Retirement Accredited Financial Advisor (RAFA) and can offer, service and provide access to fiduciary advisory services to defined contribution plans. He is also qualified as a General Securities Sales Supervisor FINRA Series 9 and 10. He currently does not perform sales supervisory responsibilities. In Mr. Lewton's early years at Merrill Lynch Wealth Management, he worked in the firm's Government Relations Office on tax, banking and securities issues. He also managed Merrill's Political Action Committee, which worked in Washington, D.C., to protect and advance the interests of individual investors. He is a cum-laude graduate of Columbia College, NY (B.A.) and Balliol College, University of Oxford with an M.LITT. research degree in International Economic Relations. Interests include: University Glee Club of New York City (First Tenor; former Treasurer and Endowment Committee Member); The Stollers, a NJ Community Theatre Group; and horology.I follow the deep-seated Merrill tradition of participating in the communities we serve. This drives my interest in spending time volunteering with organizations in our community.