Taylor Hanex
Advisor at Merrill
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Advisor at Merrill
Data sourced from SEC public records (and other sources when available). Some details may be added by the advisor after claiming their profile. Refreshed daily • Updated today.
Location
New York, NY 10019
Credentials
Series 63, Series 65
Industry experience
38 years
Taylor Hanex is a Senior Financial Advisor and Senior Vice President with Merrill Lynch Wealth Management. She specializes in designing and implementing customized wealth management plans that align with her clients' priorities, lifetime and philanthropic goals, income needs, and risk tolerance. Taylor works with wealthy families and nonprofit organizations to create structured financial approaches that address life goals, strategic priorities including philanthropy, and the complexities of wealth management.
Taylor began her career at Merrill Lynch Wealth Management after experience in the banking industry. She has been recognized on Forbes' "America's Top Women Wealth Advisors" lists continuously from 2020 through 2024, as well as on the "America's Top Women Wealth Advisors Best-in-State" lists from 2022 through 2025 and the Forbes "Best-in-State Wealth Advisors" lists from 2020 to 2025. Taylor holds a Chartered Retirement Planning Counselor (CRPC) designation and a Personal Investment Advisor (PIA) credential. She earned an MBA from Fordham University and holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in classical piano from the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University.
Taylor is actively involved in a number of professional and community organizations. She serves on the Executive Committee of the John F. Kennedy Center's National Committee for the Performing Arts and is Trustee Emeritus of Johns Hopkins University, where she served on the Board of Trustees from 2009 to 2021. She is Chair Emeritus of the Peabody Institute Advisory Board and a member of the James Madison Council of the Library of Congress. Additionally, Taylor acts as an ambassador for NY4CA (New Yorkers for Culture and Arts). Her personal interests include biking, dancing, gardening, genealogy, hiking, interior decorating, music, swimming, watching movies, and yoga.
Based on Merrill
$0 - $2,000,000: 1.10% (for Managed Strategy with MFSA under $2 million) $2,000,000+: 1.00% (for Managed Strategy with MFSA at and above $2 million)
Account minimum: $2,000,000 minimum to qualify for Premium Access Strategy per SEC data and Merrill brochure context; no other firm-wide minimum clearly stated
75 Rockefeller Plz
New York, NY 10019
New York · Texas
Bank of America, N.A.
2011 - Present (15 years)
Merrill
1987 - Present (39 years)
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