Jacqueline Ann Bell

Dowling & Yahnke LLC is a SEC-registered investment advisor and wealth management firm headquartered in San Diego, California. The firm was founded by Mark Dowling and Dale Yahnke in 1991. They are a subsidiary of Dowling & Yahnke, Inc. Dowling & Yahnke provides wealth advisory services to high net-worth individuals, trusts and estates, corporate pension and profit-sharing plans, individual retirement plans, charitable organizations, foundations, endowments, and other entities.

In 1915 Charles Edward Merrill founded Merrill Lynch & Co. (NYSE: MER) with Edmund C. Lynch in Baltimore, Maryland. The modern Merrill Lynch was formed in 1940 through mergers with E.A. Pierce & Cassatt and, soon after, Fenner & Beane. In 1973, Merrill Lynch adopted a holding company format, with Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc. as the parent and Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith as the operating subsidiary. Merrill Lynch Asset Management, Inc. (MLAM) was created as an integral business unit in the Merrill Lynch family in 1976. Fund Asset Management, doing business as Mercury Asset Management, was acquired in December 1997. In 2000, MLAM and Mercury were combined under the name Merrill Lynch Investment Managers. MLAM manages the Merrill Lynch family of mutual funds, as and acts as sub-advisor to other mutual funds.