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Baffin Advisors LLC

SEC-registered investment adviserCRD 151202

Filed as BAFFIN ADVISORS LLC

Baffin Advisors LLC is an SEC-registered investment advisory firm, registered since 2009, reporting $100 million to $500 million in regulatory assets under management in its Form ADV filing dated March 25, 2026.

17 years
registered since 2009
$103,904,710
assets under management
1 arrangement
Percentage of assets
None
disclosure items (Item 11)

Quick answers

From the filing

How is Baffin Advisors LLC compensated?

On its Form ADV (Item 5.E, October 2026), Baffin Advisors LLC reports these compensation arrangements: a percentage of assets under its management.

How much does Baffin Advisors LLC charge?

Its Form ADV Part 2A brochure dated March 25, 2026 states: Asset-based fee: 1% of assets a year. Fees can differ by service and may be negotiable; the brochure is the complete statement.

Is Baffin Advisors LLC registered with the SEC or a state?

Baffin Advisors LLC is an SEC-registered investment advisory firm, registered since 2009. Status as filed: Approved. CRD 151202.

How much does Baffin Advisors LLC manage?

Baffin Advisors LLC reports $103,904,710 in regulatory assets under management in its Form ADV filing dated March 25, 2026 (81% discretionary).

How have Baffin Advisors LLC's assets and staff changed since 2021?

In the Form ADV data for Baffin Advisors LLC: Regulatory assets under management: $74,249,543 in the October 2021 data and $103,904,710 in the October 2026 data, up 40%. Total employees: 3 in October 2021 and 1 in October 2026. Assets under management move with markets as well as with clients coming and going.

What types of clients does Baffin Advisors LLC serve?

By number of clients on Form ADV Item 5.D: high net worth individuals (9).

Which custodians does Baffin Advisors LLC use?

Baffin Advisors LLC's most recent Form ADV filing (Schedule D, Section 5.K(3)) lists J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated and Morgan Stanley as custodians holding 10% or more of its separately managed account assets.

Does Baffin Advisors LLC report any disciplinary disclosures?

Reports no disclosure items on Form ADV Item 11. The detail of any item is on the firm's SEC record: https://adviserinfo.sec.gov/firm/summary/151202

What changed in Baffin Advisors LLC's recent Form ADV filings?

In the April 2026 filing data: Regulatory assets under management went from $121,502,556 to $103,904,710 (-14%).

From the Form ADV filing

Every figure below is as the firm filed it with regulators, as of October 2026.

How the firm is compensated

Item 5.E
  • A percentage of assets under your management

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

Fees and minimums

Form ADV Part 2A

Asset-based fee: 1% of assets a year

The brochure's wording
The general rule is 1% of assets under management, per year, billed on a quarterly basis.

As stated in the firm's Form ADV Part 2A brochure dated March 25, 2026. Fees can differ by service and may be negotiable; the brochure is the complete statement. Read the brochure on the SEC's IAPD site

Regulatory assets under management

Item 5.F
$103,904,710

$103,904,710 as of October 2026, filing dated March 25, 2026.

Discretionary: $83,940,348.Non-discretionary: $19,964,362.

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

Who the firm serves

Item 5.D
High net worth individuals
Clients 9 Assets $103,904,710 (100%)

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.

Advisory services

Item 5.G
  • Portfolio management for individuals and/or small businesses

Registration and firm details

Items 1, 2, 5
Registration
SEC-registered investment adviser. Status as filed: Approved.
Registered since
2009 (17 years)
Employees
Total: 1. Performing investment advisory functions: 1.
Wrap fee program participation
No.
Custodians (Schedule D, Section 5.K(3))

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)
1 other office, as of the April 2026 filing
Harrison, NY
States registered or notice-filed
2 states or jurisdictions
FLNY

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

Disclosures

Item 11

None Reports no disclosure items on Form ADV Item 11. View on IAPD.

Item 11 asks about criminal, regulatory, and civil events involving the firm and its advisory personnel. The detail of each yes answer is on the IAPD record. Reading a firm's disclosures

Assets and staff over time

Items 5.A, 5.F
$74.2M 2021 $69.2M 2022 $62.6M 2023 $120M 2024 $122M 2025 $104M 2026
Data periodAssets under managementEmployeesFiling dated
October 2026$103,904,7101March 25, 2026
October 2025$121,502,5563March 26, 2025
October 2024$119,547,1183March 27, 2024
October 2023$62,619,8803March 29, 2023
October 2022$69,191,3013April 5, 2022
October 2021$74,249,5433March 24, 2021

Regulatory assets under management: $74,249,543 in the October 2021 data and $103,904,710 in the October 2026 data, up 40%.

Total employees: 3 in October 2021 and 1 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.

Changes in the filing

Last 12 months
  1. April 2026
    • Regulatory assets under management went from $121,502,556 to $103,904,710 (-14%).
  2. December 2025
    • Registered or notice-filed in FL.

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

Websites listed on Form ADV

Item 1.I
baffinadvisors.com

Source: Form ADV, as of October 2026. Values appear as filed; a value the firm did not report is shown as "Not reported."

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AdvisorCensus. Baffin Advisors LLC (CRD 151202): Form ADV filing data as of October 2026.
https://advisorcensus.com/firm/baffin-advisors-llc-151202