Investment advisor donations in the 2012 FEC cycle

Investment advisor × 2012

INVESTMENT ADVISOR plus cycle 2012 equals $1,727,035. Investment adviser with an e, financial advisor, and registered investment adviser are other keys if those characters appear. This join does not recode SEC registrations.

Parent hubs: Investment Advisor donations and the 2012 election cycle. All FEC ties keeps the -or spelling as its own occupation-year cell.

The occupation hub for Investment Advisor lists $17.2 million ($17,194,878) under the exact string INVESTMENT ADVISOR. The 2012 election-cycle hub is a different cut: every occupation that filed in 2012, not only this label. This ties page is the cell where those two filters meet. All occupations and All FEC ties keep sibling joins in the same directory so a reader can move without mixing totals.

Party, committee, and employer breakdowns for Investment Advisor in 2012 are not fields in this packet. Do not infer a partisan split from $1.7 million. The occupation page and the 2012 cycle page are the next clicks for named committees and other cuts.

Spelling and the occupation rollup

$17.2 million ($17,194,878) is the ADVISOR spelling. Adviser with an e is a different string when typed that way. This extract does not fuzzy-match vowels.

10.0% of the -or bucket fell in 2012. That is not RIA assets under management and not a FINRA roster.

Amended individual contribution reports can move $1,727,035. A later harvest of the same occupation string can move $17,194,878. Rewrite only the sentence whose source moved. Live Investment Advisor donations and the live 2012 election cycle pages are the tables; this prose is a packet snapshot.

Itemized individual contributions are the only receipt class in this cell. Unitemized gifts below the itemization threshold, in-kind goods, and bundled contributions without this occupation string are outside $1,727,035. If a later harvest revises 1,038 or 490, revise the volume sentence and leave the occupation rollup ($17,194,878) unchanged unless that rollup moved too.

490 advisors in the 2012 cell

490 donors and 1,038 receipts — about 2.1 lines per donor. Mean per donor about $3,525; mean per receipt about $1,664. A 490-donor presidential-year file can be top-heavy. No median.

Repeat gifts to several committees add receipts without adding people. 1,038 is a line count, not 490 one-time gifts.

1,038 is a receipt count. 490 is a distinct-donor count inside this occupation-cycle cell. Neither figure is a headcount of everyone who works in the field named by the string. People who left the occupation blank, used a nearby spelling, or listed a more specific title are not in $1.7 million.

Searchers comparing Investment Advisor with another occupation must open that other occupation’s cycle cell rather than rescale 10.0%. Share of INVESTMENT ADVISOR is not share of all 2012 receipts. The 2012 election cycle hub is the page that holds the cycle’s occupation mix; this ties page holds one row of it.

Advisor versus adviser

Cite $1,727,035 as Investment Advisor (or spelling) in 2012. Cite $17,194,878 as this spelling’s occupation total. Do not merge the e-spelling without a new extract.

FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates. All occupations lists neighboring finance titles.

Dividing $1,727,035 by 1,038 receipts yields about $1,664 per line. Dividing by 490 donors yields about $3,525 per person in the cell. Those ratios are arithmetic on two harvested integers. They are not medians, not typical gifts, and not a claim about income.

Not an SEC census

LobbyVault does not match Form ADV. An unregistered filer who typed Investment Advisor is in $1.7 million; a registered adviser who used the e is not.

No party split, no ranking of wealth managers, no claim about fiduciary rules. 1,038 receipts and 490 donors are the volume facts.

FEC.gov individual contribution files carry the occupation as the filer typed it. This join does not recode INVESTMENT ADVISOR into a Bureau of Labor Statistics title, a NAICS code, or a medical-board specialty. If a researcher needs those crosswalks, they start from the raw string and do the mapping themselves.

Questions

How much did investment advisors donate in 2012?

Filers who listed Investment Advisor itemized $1,727,035 in FEC individual contributions in 2012, from 1,038 receipts and 490 donors. That is 10.0% of $17,194,878 under the ADVISOR spelling. Investment adviser with an e and financial advisor are other keys when those are the words on the form.

Is advisor the same as adviser in FEC data?

Only if the typed characters match. This join uses ADVISOR. Adviser with an e is a different string when entered that way. LobbyVault does not recode SEC titles. Cite $1.7 million for this spelling in 2012. Figures are FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates. Investment Advisor in 2012 is $1,727,035 on 1,038 receipts from 490 donors.

Does this include advisory-firm PACs?

No. $1,727,035 is individual contributions tagged Investment Advisor. Committee independent expenditures are a different FEC file. Employer is not in the packet. See Investment Advisor donations or the 2012 cycle hub for committee names. Figures are FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates. Investment Advisor in 2012 is $1,727,035 on 1,038 receipts from 490 donors.

What two tables meet here?

The Investment Advisor occupation hub ($17.2 million) and the 2012 election cycle. The overlap is $1,727,035 from 490 donors. All FEC ties lists other occupation-cycle cells. All occupations lists neighboring finance strings. Figures are FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates. Investment Advisor in 2012 is $1,727,035 on 1,038 receipts from 490 donors.