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Candriam S.C.A.

Strassen, LuxembourgSEC-registered investment adviserCRD 173355

Filed as CANDRIAM S.C.A. · Legal name Candriam, Société EN Commandite PAR Actions

Candriam S.C.A. is an SEC-registered investment advisory firm in Strassen, Luxembourg, registered since 2014, reporting over $5 billion in regulatory assets under management in its Form ADV filing dated March 31, 2026.

11 years
registered since 2014
$154,660,272,284
assets under management
2 arrangements
Percentage of assets, Performance-based
4
disclosure items (Item 11)

Quick answers

From the filing

How is Candriam S.C.A. compensated?

On its Form ADV (Item 5.E, October 2026), Candriam S.C.A. reports these compensation arrangements: a percentage of assets under its management; performance-based fees. The amounts are in Item 5 of its Form ADV Part 2A brochure.

Where is Candriam S.C.A. located?

Candriam S.C.A.'s principal office is in Strassen, Luxembourg, according to its Form ADV; the April 2026 filing also lists 11 other offices (Schedule D, Section 1.F).

Is Candriam S.C.A. registered with the SEC or a state?

Candriam S.C.A. is an SEC-registered investment advisory firm, registered since 2014. Status as filed: Approved. CRD 173355.

How much does Candriam S.C.A. manage?

Candriam S.C.A. reports $154,660,272,284 in regulatory assets under management in its Form ADV filing dated March 31, 2026 (100% discretionary).

How have Candriam S.C.A.'s assets and staff changed since 2021?

In the Form ADV data for Candriam S.C.A.: Regulatory assets under management: $77,951,485,936 in the October 2021 data and $154,660,272,284 in the October 2026 data, up 98%. Total employees: 131 in October 2021 and 598 in October 2026. Assets under management move with markets as well as with clients coming and going.

What types of clients does Candriam S.C.A. serve?

By number of clients on Form ADV Item 5.D: pooled investment vehicles (other than investment companies and business development companies) (190); pension and profit sharing plans (but not the plan participants or government pension plans) (78); charitable organizations (75).

Which custodians does Candriam S.C.A. use?

Candriam S.C.A.'s most recent Form ADV filing (Schedule D, Section 5.K(3)) lists Belfius Bank (affiliated with the firm) and Caceis as custodians holding 10% or more of its separately managed account assets.

Does Candriam S.C.A. report any disciplinary disclosures?

Reports 4 disclosure items on Form ADV Item 11: yes answers to 11.A(2) (felony charge in the past ten years), 11.D(2) (another regulator's finding of a violation), 11.D(4) (another regulator's order in the past ten years), and 11.H(2) (pending civil proceeding). Each question covers the firm and its advisory affiliates, and one event can produce several yes answers. The detail of any item is on the firm's SEC record: https://adviserinfo.sec.gov/firm/summary/173355

What changed in Candriam S.C.A.'s recent Form ADV filings?

In the April 2026 filing data: Employees performing advisory functions went from 298 to 288. Regulatory assets under management went from $128,735,191,629 to $154,660,272,284 (+20%).

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
  • Performance-based 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

Fees and minimums

Form ADV Part 2A

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

Regulatory assets under management

Item 5.F
$154,660,272,284

$154,660,272,284 as of October 2026, filing dated March 31, 2026.

Discretionary: $154,660,272,284.Non-discretionary: $0.

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
Banking or thrift institutions
Clients 3 Assets $2,115,714,815 (1%)
Investment companies
Clients 3 Assets $417,436,839 (0%)
Pooled investment vehicles (other than investment companies and business development companies)
Clients 190 Assets $108,028,230,186 (70%)
Pension and profit sharing plans (but not the plan participants or government pension plans)
Clients 78 Assets $11,378,468,488 (7%)
Charitable organizations
Clients 75 Assets $3,168,950,987 (2%)
State or municipal government entities (including government pension plans)
Clients 12 Assets $4,277,631,360 (3%)
Insurance companies
Clients 71 Assets $17,019,625,438 (11%)
Corporations or other businesses not listed above
Clients 40 Assets $8,227,208,589 (5%)
Other
Clients 2 Assets $27,005,582 (0%)

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
  • Portfolio management for investment companies (and business development companies)
  • Portfolio management for pooled investment vehicles (other than investment companies)
  • Portfolio management for businesses (other than small businesses) or institutional clients
  • Selection of other advisers (including private fund managers)
  • Publication of periodicals or newsletters
  • Educational seminars/workshops

Registration and firm details

Items 1, 2, 5
Legal name
Candriam, Société EN Commandite PAR Actions
Also doing business as
CANDRIAM
Registration
SEC-registered investment adviser. Status as filed: Approved.
Registered since
2014 (11 years)
Employees
Total: 598. Performing investment advisory functions: 288.
Wrap fee program participation
No.
Custodians (Schedule D, Section 5.K(3))
Belfius Bank · affiliatedCaceis

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)
11 other offices, as of the April 2026 filing
AmsterdamBrusselsDubaiFrankfurt Am MainGenevaLondonMadridMilanoParisStockholmZurich
States registered or notice-filed
Not reported.

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

Disclosures

Item 11

4 Reports 4 disclosure items on Form ADV Item 11. View on IAPD.

Questions answered yes on this filing

Criminal matters Items 11.A and 11.B

  • 11.A(2) In the past ten years, has the firm or an advisory affiliate been charged with a felony?

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

Assets and staff over time

Items 5.A, 5.F
$78B 2021 $85.1B 2022 $117B 2023 $127B 2024 $129B 2025 $155B 2026
Data periodAssets under managementEmployeesFiling dated
October 2026$154,660,272,284598March 31, 2026
October 2025$128,735,191,629603June 26, 2025
October 2024$127,325,611,810612August 8, 2024
October 2023$117,320,990,973616July 12, 2023
October 2022$85,092,866,017139August 9, 2022
October 2021$77,951,485,936131August 31, 2021

Regulatory assets under management: $77,951,485,936 in the October 2021 data and $154,660,272,284 in the October 2026 data, up 98%.

Total employees: 131 in October 2021 and 598 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
    • Employees performing advisory functions went from 298 to 288.
    • Regulatory assets under management went from $128,735,191,629 to $154,660,272,284 (+20%).
  2. February 2026
    • Item 11 disclosure answers changed: 4 yes answers, previously 3 (now yes: 11.A(2)).
    • Updated its list of owners and control persons (Schedule A).

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
candriam.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. Candriam S.C.A. (CRD 173355): Form ADV filing data as of October 2026.
https://advisorcensus.com/firm/candriam-s-c-a-strassen-173355