Kent Pearce

Kent Pearce, a Managing Director - Senior Financial Advisor and founder of The Pearce Group, along with his associates, form one of the Merrill's most distinguished Personal and Corporate Wealth Management Teams.

The Pearce Group was recently named to the FORBES “Top 100 Private Wealth Teams in America” list for 2022. (Published on November 8, 2022. Rankings based on data as of March 31, 2022), as well as being the #1 Ranked Wealth Management Team in the State of Maryland on the FORBES "Best-In-State Wealth Management Teams" list for 2023 (Published on January 12, 2023. Rankings based on data as of March 31, 2022).

Over the course of Kent’s entire 28+ year career with Merrill, he has been recognized as one of America’s leading financial advisors. In 2021 and 2022 Kent was named among the Top 50 wealth advisors on Forbes “America’s Top Wealth Advisors” list with his most recent ranking of #39 nationally in 2022 (published annually August 24. Rankings based on data as of March 31 prior year). In addition, Kent was ranked by Forbes as the #1 Financial Advisor in Maryland for 2020-2021 on the “Best-In-State Wealth Advisors” list (published annually Jan- April. Rankings based on data as of June 30 of prior year.)