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Carolina Wealth Advisors

Myrtle Beach, SCSEC-registered investment adviserCRD 288837

Filed as CAROLINA WEALTH ADVISORS · Legal name Carolina Wealth Advisors, LLC

Carolina Wealth Advisors is an SEC-registered investment advisory firm in Myrtle Beach, SC, registered since 2020, reporting $100 million to $500 million in regulatory assets under management in its Form ADV filing dated March 25, 2026.

6 years
registered since 2020
$313,415,083
assets under management
2 arrangements
Percentage of assets, Hourly
None
disclosure items (Item 11)

Quick answers

From the filing

How is Carolina Wealth Advisors compensated?

On its Form ADV (Item 5.E, October 2026), Carolina Wealth Advisors reports these compensation arrangements: a percentage of assets under its management; hourly charges.

Where is Carolina Wealth Advisors located?

Carolina Wealth Advisors' principal office is in Myrtle Beach, SC, according to its Form ADV.

Is Carolina Wealth Advisors registered with the SEC or a state?

Carolina Wealth Advisors is an SEC-registered investment advisory firm, registered since 2020. Status as filed: Approved. CRD 288837.

How much does Carolina Wealth Advisors manage?

Carolina Wealth Advisors reports $313,415,083 in regulatory assets under management in its Form ADV filing dated March 25, 2026 (98% discretionary).

How have Carolina Wealth Advisors' assets and staff changed since 2021?

In the Form ADV data for Carolina Wealth Advisors: Regulatory assets under management: $159,576,023 in the October 2021 data and $313,415,083 in the October 2026 data, up 96%. Total employees: 4 in October 2021 and 6 in October 2026. Assets under management move with markets as well as with clients coming and going.

What types of clients does Carolina Wealth Advisors serve?

By number of clients on Form ADV Item 5.D: individuals (other than high net worth individuals) (459); high net worth individuals (128); corporations or other businesses not listed above (9).

Which custodians does Carolina Wealth Advisors use?

Carolina Wealth Advisors' most recent Form ADV filing (Schedule D, Section 5.K(3)) lists Charles Schwab & Co., Inc. as a custodian holding 10% or more of its separately managed account assets.

Does Carolina Wealth Advisors 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/288837

Does Carolina Wealth Advisors state an account minimum?

Its Form ADV Part 2A brochure dated March 25, 2026 says: "CWA requires no minimum account size to open and maintain an advisory account."

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
  • Hourly charges

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

Account minimum: None

The brochure's wording
CWA requires no minimum account size to open and maintain an advisory account.

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
$313,415,083

$313,415,083 as of October 2026, filing dated March 25, 2026.

Discretionary: $308,452,903.Non-discretionary: $4,962,180.

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
Individuals (other than high net worth individuals)
Clients 459 Assets $99,507,401 (32%)
High net worth individuals
Clients 128 Assets $207,199,809 (66%)
Banking or thrift institutions
Clients 0 Assets $0 (0%)
Investment companies
Clients 0 Assets $0 (0%)
Business development companies
Clients 0 Assets $0 (0%)
Pooled investment vehicles (other than investment companies and business development companies)
Clients 0 Assets $0 (0%)
Pension and profit sharing plans (but not the plan participants or government pension plans)
Clients 0 Assets $0 (0%)
Charitable organizations
Clients Fewer than 5 Assets $1,818 (0%)
State or municipal government entities (including government pension plans)
Clients 0 Assets $0 (0%)
Other investment advisers
Clients 0 Assets $0 (0%)
Insurance companies
Clients 0 Assets $0 (0%)
Sovereign wealth funds and foreign official institutions
Clients 0 Assets $0 (0%)
Corporations or other businesses not listed above
Clients 9 Assets $6,706,055 (2%)
Other
Clients 0 Assets $0 (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
  • Financial planning services
  • Portfolio management for individuals and/or small businesses
  • Pension consulting services

Registration and firm details

Items 1, 2, 5
Legal name
Carolina Wealth Advisors, LLC
Registration
SEC-registered investment adviser. Status as filed: Approved.
Registered since
2020 (6 years)
Employees
Total: 6. Performing investment advisory functions: 4.
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.

States registered or notice-filed
7 states or jurisdictions
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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
$160M 2021 $201M 2022 $235M 2023 $278M 2024 $298M 2025 $313M 2026
Data periodAssets under managementEmployeesFiling dated
October 2026$313,415,0836March 25, 2026
October 2025$297,697,0286March 25, 2025
October 2024$278,211,7486March 26, 2024
October 2023$235,019,7346March 21, 2023
October 2022$200,719,0055March 10, 2022
October 2021$159,576,0234June 23, 2021

Regulatory assets under management: $159,576,023 in the October 2021 data and $313,415,083 in the October 2026 data, up 96%.

Total employees: 4 in October 2021 and 6 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

No changes to these filed facts in the last 12 months of filing data.

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
carolinawa.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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