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Dayana Medevsky

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DAYANA MEDEVSKY is a Financial Advisor at Merrill Lynch Wealth Management and a member of the Oster Group in Oakland, CA. Dayana joined the Merrill Lynch Thundering Herd in 2021. Dayana is a seasoned Financial Services professional that spent the past decade honing her craft at premier financial firms including JPMorgan, Citigroup, and BNP Paribas. The main reason Dayana chose to enter the Financial Services industry is her passion to help people, a desire that stems from deeply personal experiences. After her family immigrated to America, Dayana became a first-hand witness to the financial challenges the important people in her life would face. Those experiences gave Dayana insight into people’s need for an empathetic professional Life-Wealth Advisor who can offer tailored guidance and help people maximize their ever-evolving lives.

A proponent of positive psychology, Dayana believes that happiness, health, and finances are intimately intertwined forces in your journey toward self-actualization. Dayana works with a strong sense of purpose to help you in defining life goals, establishing priorities, and adjusting financial strategies to help you flourish as a human being throughout your life journey. Dayana leverages her out-of-the-box problem solving skills to assist clients like you every day with their investments, banking, retirement, lending, insurance, and estate needs. Her unique One-Stop-Shop Wealth Management approach is grounded in building a collaborative, long-term relationship with you and your family – a partnership founded on trust, compassion, respect, and concierge-level service. 

Dayana is a first-generation immigrant born in Bulgaria. She graduated magna cum laude from UC Berkeley and holds two Bachelor of Arts degrees in Psychology and Political Science. Curious by nature, Dayana spends significant time with people, learning about their families, professions, and interests, as well as their long-term aspirations. Dayana also delights in finding new ways to experience the natural world in all of its glory (i.e. through whitewater rafting, ziplining, skydiving, paragliding, etc.). She currently resides in Berkeley, CA.

  • EDUCATION

    University of California System

  • LANGUAGES

    English, Russian & Spanish

Professional Staff

Supported by the global resources of Merrill, my team is comprised of talented and experienced individuals committed to building strong client relationships based on trust and personalized service.

Additional Resources

The following specialists do not make securities recommendations. Please contact your Merrill Lynch Wealth Management Advisor if you have questions about how a specialist might be able to assist you.

David Rubalcava

Wealth Strategies Advisor

Bank of America, N.A.

Nafisa Azami

Wealth Management Banking Specialist

Merrill

Reham Asaad

Wealth Management Lending Officer

Bank of America, N.A.

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Where do we begin? It starts with you.

At Merrill Lynch Wealth Management, your financial advisor focuses on the things you care about most- family, goals and priorities - even as they change over the years.

Understanding Your Life

Insightful Guidance, Caring Service

My mission is to understand you and what matters most to you. To take the time, to ask hard, smart questions and to listen carefully, then to understand, in great detail, exactly where your wealth stands today, and where you’d like it to be tomorrow. In working with you, I seek to understand not just your financial situation and investment objectives, but also your values and aspirations - both for yourself and for your family. I am committed to learning everything I can about you and developing a deep connection so I can give you the personalized service and attention you deserve. In short, your goals are my focus and helping you pursue them is my mission.

Philosophy

I believe the best financial approach is the one that helps you pursue your goals. That's why, from the start, we talk about your aspirations and encourage you to ask questions about issues that matter most to you. Calculating how to manage future health care expenses? College on the horizon? Considering the sale of a business or purchase of a home? Preparing to pass your wealth to future generations? It all starts with a plan intended to help you manage, grow, and preserve your wealth today, while also considering the impact it can have for years to come. With access to the investment insights of Merrill and banking solutions from Bank of America, I will work with you to develop an approach designed to help address your financial needs.

Approach

Every relationship begins with a conversation, helping you identify and prioritize which goals matter most to you. Whether it's transferring wealth to the next generation, customizing your financial approach to help you pursue your passions, or providing advice and guidance to help you stay informed, I start by listening to learn more about you and your family.

Your approach to investing

Drawing upon research in the field of behavioral finance, Merrill developed the Investment Personality Assessment to help us get to know you better as an investor and potentially help you refine your own investing preferences. By gaining a deeper understanding of how you think and feel about investing through this assessment, we can customize the financial approach we develop together to help you pursue what matters most to you. Our Investment Personality Assessment is one of the ways to help us get to know you - to understand your goals and priorities. These questions will help us provide you with additional insights and resources.

Understanding your goals and priorities

Your life and goals change. We have tools to help you keep track of these changes so they can be reflected in your financial approach.

Capabilities

Merrill’s process is designed to help deliver a customized, comprehensive experience to assist you not only in wealth accumulation and preservation, but in areas that go beyond investments. Providing you with access to the investment insights of Merrill, trust and fiduciary services from Bank of America Private Bank, and the banking and lending solutions of Bank of America offers a way to help you manage all of the pieces of your financial life. Working one-on-one with a Merrill advisor means you have a single point of contact to help you with potential strategies for transferring wealth to the younger generation.

Focus On Individuals, Families and Small Businesses

I believe that financial success can be achieved when you’re able to make investment-related decisions and trade-offs that can help you reach personally meaningful goals. Whether you’re planning your retirement, saving to buy a home or funding a child’s education, the process begins by getting to know you and how you feel about the following:

  • Health: Managing healthcare expenses, now and in the future
  • Home: Upsizing, downsizing, remodeling or buying a vacation home
  • Family: Taking care of your family and other people in your life
  • Leisure: Spending your free time in meaningful ways
  • Giving: Volunteering, mentoring others and giving to charities
  • Work: Working in retirement, selling or starting a business
  • Finance: Bringing it all together and defining your financial goals

Success will be measured by the amount of progress you are making toward reaching your goals, making thoughtfully considered adjustments as events and conditions warrant.

This material should be regarded as general or educational information on healthcare or Social Security considerations and is not intended to provide specific healthcare or social security advice. If you have questions regarding your particular situation, please contact your legal or tax advisor.

Staying on Track

We understand that both your life and the financial markets can change over time. By checking in to discuss changes in your life and revisiting your financial approach, our goal is to help you stay on track to achieve what's most important to you.



Reviews to help you
stay on track

We’ll meet with you to review your goals and the progress you’ve made toward reaching them. We’ll also discuss any adjustments needed to your financial approach to help you stay on course.



    Changes in your life
    and to your goals

    Your life and goals change. As these changes occur, we can update your approach to reflect them.

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      Let’s Have a Conversation

      Helping you reach your goals starts with getting to know you personally. Through understanding what matters most to you, together I can help you create a financial approach that reflects your personality. Only then can I offer an approach that is built around your life priorities and the advice you need to help you address fluctuations in the market and changes in your life. Let’s work together to help you achieve your goals.

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      Personalized advice from a dedicated financial advisor.

      We get to know you and your family, your financial situation and what matters most to you.

      A comprehensive approach, built around your life’s priorities.

      Drawing from our experience and the best thinking of Merrill, together we will design an approach that reflects your unique needs, priorities and financial situation.

      Adjusting your investment approach as your life and the markets change.

      We will work to help you stay on track, regardless of what the markets are doing.