Joel Joachim is a Wealth Management Advisor with Merrill Lynch Wealth Management, celebrating over 26 years with the firm. He has developed client relationships that extend to referred friends and multiple generations of their families. Since 1997, Joel has provided advice and guidance to high-net-worth families, non-profit organizations, and institutional clients. His approach to investing involves a disciplined application of modern portfolio theory combined with the careful selection of third-party investment managers to achieve a risk-managed portfolio construction. Additionally, he helps structure retirement plans for both individuals and companies. Joel is a qualified Portfolio Manager who can build and manage personalized or defined investment strategies, utilizing individual stocks and bonds, Merrill model portfolios, and third-party strategies. In his role, he may manage client strategies on a discretionary basis through the firm's Investment Advisory Program.
Joel holds several professional designations, including CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER17 (CFP), CERTIFIED PLAN FIDUCIARY ADVISOR17 (CPFA), Personal Investment Advisor (PIA), and Retirement Benefits Consultant (RBC). He earned a Bachelor's degree in Accounting from the School of Management at SUNY Binghamton and an MBA in Finance from Fordham University. Previously, Joel was a Certified Public Accountant but does not provide tax advice in his current role at Merrill. He is a member of the professional organization Delta Sigma Pi.
Residing in Boca Raton, Florida, and Jericho, New York, Joel lives with his wife, Ilene. Their two children are graduates of Syracuse University. Joel is a fan of Syracuse Orange basketball and football and enjoys playing golf, tennis, and pickleball. He is also an avid traveler, reader, and active fundraiser for the Diabetes Research Institute Foundation.