Young Kyu Lee
Advisor at Merrill — Lafayette, IN
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Credentials
Series 66
Experience Industry experience
20 years
Location
Lafayette, IN 47901
Merrill
Institution
Young Lee is a Senior Vice President and Wealth Management Advisor at Merrill Lynch Wealth Management. He has been with Merrill since 2004, beginning his career there as an intern and remaining with the firm throughout his professional journey. Lee holds multiple professional designations, including Certified Exit Planning Advisor (CEPA), Certified 401(k) Professional (C(k)P), Certified Plan Fiduciary Advisor (CPFA), Chartered Retirement Planning Counselor (CRPC), Personal Investment Advisor (PIA), Retirement Accredited Financial Advisor (RAFA), and Sports & Entertainment Accredited Wealth Management Advisor (SE-AWMA).
With more than twenty years of experience, Lee has helped affluent individuals, families, and their businesses pursue various financial goals, focusing on strategies tailored to clients' risk tolerance, time horizon, liquidity needs, and investment objectives. He provides customized retirement planning and income strategies, investment and portfolio management, corporate retirement plans and lending strategies, home financing and banking, life insurance and long-term care planning, and trust and estate planning services. Lee has also assisted clients with distribution options from employer-sponsored plans.
Lee attended Purdue University, where he earned a Bachelor's degree. He has been recognized with honors including serving as Purdue's commencement speaker in 2005, receiving the Young Alumni Award from Purdue's Krannert School of Management in 2015, and the Bernie Flowers Award for Outstanding Contribution to Sports from the National Football Foundation's Joe Tiller Chapter in 2021. He and his family have endowed a scholarship in honor of Sara Stein Koch, former director of undergraduate programs at the Purdue Daniels Business School. Lee is involved in several community organizations such as the Community Foundation of Greater Lafayette Scholarship Committee, Korean Community Center of Greater Princeton, Lafayette Rotary Club, NFF Tiller Chapter, and Purdue Center for Cancer Research. His personal interests include baseball, basketball, biking, cooking, football, reading, running, spending time with his family, and traveling.
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Lafayette, IN
250 Main St
Lafayette IN 47901
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10
Indiana · Texas
20 years of industry experience
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2014 - Present • 12 years
Lafayette, IN
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