Alphastar Capital Management

• 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

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

$2,496,202,761 as of October 2026, filing dated July 30, 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
• Pension consulting services
• Selection of other advisers (including private fund managers)
• Educational seminars/workshops
• Other

Legal name

Alphastar Capital Management, LLC

Registration

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

Registered since

2011 (15 years)

Employees

Total: 150. Performing investment advisory functions: 130.

Wrap fee program participation

No.

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

Charles Schwab & Co., Inc.

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)

23 other offices, as of the August 2026 filing

Boca Raton, FLCanton, OHCincinnati, OHClemmons, NCDavenport, IAEnfield, CTFisherville, VAFlorence, ALGreenville, SCHemet, CAHickory, NCLatham, NYLincoln, NELouisville, KYMilford, CTMooresville, NCMyrtle Beach, SCNorth Concord, NCPensacola, FLRochester, MNSarasota, FLStafford, VAWildwood, FL

States registered or notice-filed

52 states or jurisdictions

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

3 Reports 3 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.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(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?

Civil court matters Item 11.H

• 11.H(2) Is the firm or an advisory affiliate now the subject of a civil proceeding that could result in a yes answer to any part of 11.H(1)?

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: $804,553,597 in the October 2021 data and $2,496,202,761 in the October 2026 data, up 210%.

Total employees: 128 in October 2021 and 150 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
   • Updated its list of owners and control persons (Schedule A).
2. April 2026
   • Employees performing advisory functions went from 109 to 130.
   • Regulatory assets under management went from $1,841,154,148 to $2,496,202,761 (+36%).
   • Added an office in Davenport, IA.
   • Added an office in Enfield, CT.
   • Added an office in Greenville, SC.
   • Added an office in Hemet, CA.
   • Added an office in Lincoln, NE.
   • Added an office in Louisville, KY.
   • Added an office in North Concord, NC.
   • Added an office in Sarasota, FL.
   • No longer lists an office in Cornelius, NC.
   • No longer lists an office in Hudson, WI.
   • No longer lists an office in Jenks, OK.
   • No longer lists an office in Nashville, TN.
   • No longer lists an office in Port Charlotte, FL.
   • No longer lists an office in Scottsdale, AZ.
   • No longer lists an office in Solon, OH.
   • No longer lists an office in Winchester, VA.
3. February 2026
   • Item 11 disclosure answers changed: 3 yes answers, previously 2 (now yes: 11.H(2)).
4. December 2025
   • Item 11 disclosure answers changed: 2 yes answers, previously 0 (now yes: 11.D(2), 11.D(4)).

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