AE Wealth Management, LLC

• A percentage of assets under your management
• Hourly charges
• Fixed fees (other than subscription fees)

Item 5.E lists how the firm is compensated for its advice; Items 5.B, 6.A, and 7.A show whether its people or related companies can also earn commissions. Percentage of assets, fixed, hourly, subscription, and performance-based fees come from clients (a performance-based fee depends on investment results); commissions come with a sale or a trade, often from the company behind the product. How fees, commissions, and other arrangements differ

See the firm's brochure (dated March 31, 2026) for its fees and any account minimum, on the SEC's IAPD site.

$49,837,385,888 as of October 2026, filing dated August 13, 2026.

A measure of scale, not skill or returns. Discretionary means the firm decides trades; non-discretionary means clients approve each one. What assets under management means

A firm with no individual clients is an institutional manager even if it manages billions; the mix tells you whom the practice is built around.

• Financial planning services
• Portfolio management for individuals and/or small businesses
• Portfolio management for businesses (other than small businesses) or institutional clients
• Pension consulting services
• Selection of other advisers (including private fund managers)
• Publication of periodicals or newsletters
• Educational seminars/workshops

Registration

SEC-registered investment adviser. Status as filed: Approved.

Registered since

2016 (10 years)

Employees

Total: 630. Performing investment advisory functions: 448.

Wrap fee program participation

Yes.

Custodians (Schedule D, Section 5.K(3))

Charles Schwab & Co., Inc.Fidelity Brokerage Services LLC

Custodians holding 10% or more of the firm's separately managed account assets, as filed on Form ADV (Schedule D, Section 5.K(3)). A custodian holds client assets; it does not endorse or supervise the firm. AdvisorCensus has no relationship with any custodian.

Other offices (Schedule D, Section 1.F)

24 other offices, as of the September 2026 filing

Asheville, NCBirmingham, ALCarlsbad, CADayton, OHFort Mitchell, KYFt Thomas, KYGreer, SCHarrison, OHHendersonville, NCHingham, MAHuntsville, ALJacksonville, FLLawrence, INMesa, AZMetairie, LARockford, ILSebring, FLSun City, AZTopeka, KSTroy, MITucson, AZWarwick, RIWest Chester, OHYork, PA

States registered or notice-filed

53 states or jurisdictions

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SEC-registered investment advisers are examined by the SEC. SEC, state, and exempt registration

11 Reports 11 disclosure items on Form ADV Item 11. View on IAPD.

Questions answered yes on this filing

Regulatory matters Items 11.C to 11.G

• 11.C(2) Has the SEC or the CFTC ever found that the firm or an advisory affiliate was involved in a violation of SEC or CFTC regulations or statutes?
• 11.C(4) Has the SEC or the CFTC ever entered an order against the firm or an advisory affiliate in connection with investment-related activity?
• 11.C(5) Has the SEC or the CFTC ever imposed a civil money penalty on the firm or an advisory affiliate, or ordered the firm or an advisory affiliate to cease and desist from an activity?
• 11.D(1) Has another federal regulator, a state regulator, or a foreign financial regulator ever found that the firm or an advisory affiliate made a false statement or omission, or was dishonest, unfair, or unethical?
• 11.D(2) Has another federal regulator, a state regulator, or a foreign financial regulator ever found that the firm or an advisory affiliate was involved in a violation of investment-related regulations or statutes?
• 11.D(3) Has another federal regulator, a state regulator, or a foreign financial regulator ever found that the firm or an advisory affiliate was a cause of an investment-related business having its authorization to do business denied, suspended, revoked, or restricted?
• 11.D(4) In the past ten years, has another federal regulator, a state regulator, or a foreign financial regulator entered an order against the firm or an advisory affiliate in connection with investment-related activity?
• 11.D(5) Has another federal regulator, a state regulator, or a foreign financial regulator ever denied, suspended, or revoked the registration or license of the firm or an advisory affiliate, prevented either by order from associating with an investment-related business, or restricted either one's activity?
• 11.E(1) Has a self-regulatory organization (such as FINRA) or a commodities exchange ever found that the firm or an advisory affiliate made a false statement or omission?
• 11.E(2) Has a self-regulatory organization or a commodities exchange ever found that the firm or an advisory affiliate was involved in a violation of its rules, other than a minor rule violation under a plan the SEC approved?
• 11.E(4) Has a self-regulatory organization or a commodities exchange ever disciplined the firm or an advisory affiliate by expelling or suspending it from membership, barring or suspending it from association with other members, or otherwise restricting its activities?

Each question covers the firm and its advisory affiliates: its current employees other than clerical staff, its officers, partners, and directors, and anyone who controls the firm or is controlled by it. One event can produce yes answers to several questions. SEC-registered advisers and exempt reporting advisers may leave out events more than ten years old, and may answer 11.A(2) and 11.B(2) for pending charges only. What happened, and who was involved, is on the Disclosure Reporting Pages of the IAPD record. Reading a firm's disclosures

Regulatory assets under management: $12,637,103,953 in the October 2021 data and $49,837,385,888 in the October 2026 data, up 294%.

Total employees: 513 in October 2021 and 630 in October 2026.

As filed in each year's data for the same month. Assets under management move with markets as well as with clients coming and going; they measure scale, not skill or returns. Most firms update these figures once a year.

1. August 2026
   • Registered or notice-filed in PR.
2. April 2026
   • Employees performing advisory functions went from 435 to 448.
   • Regulatory assets under management went from $37,525,706,084 to $49,837,385,888 (+33%).
   • Changed its office addresses in Jacksonville, FL.
   • Changed its office addresses in Mesa, AZ.
   • Added an office in Huntsville, AL.
   • Added an office in Topeka, KS.
   • Added an office in Tucson, AZ.
   • Added an office in West Chester, OH.
   • No longer lists an office in Englewood, CO.
   • No longer lists an office in Leo, IN.
   • No longer lists an office in Sandy, UT.
   • No longer lists an office in Winter Garden, FL.
   • Updated its list of owners and control persons (Schedule A).
3. December 2025
   • Item 11 disclosure answers changed: 11 yes answers, previously 10 (now yes: 11.E(1)).

Compared month to month from the SEC's monthly adviser data and the state compilation feed. Owners and control persons are summarized, never named.