Cerity Partners Retirement Plan Consultants

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

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 brochure for them.

Hourly rate: $250 to $675 an hour (services provided outside the scope of the primary discretionary…)

As stated in the firm's Form ADV Part 2A brochure dated April 21, 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

$40,253,232,272 as of October 2026, filing dated September 29, 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.

• Portfolio management for businesses (other than small businesses) or institutional clients
• Pension consulting services
• Selection of other advisers (including private fund managers)
• Educational seminars/workshops

Legal name

Cerity Partners Retirement Plan Advisors LLC

Also doing business as

CERITY PARTNERS, CERITY PARTNERS INSTITUTIONAL CONSULTING

Registration

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

Registered since

2012 (14 years)

Employees

Total: 193. Performing investment advisory functions: 153.

Wrap fee program participation

No.

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

Empower Financial Services, Inc.Fidelity Distributors Company LLCNorthern TrustU.S. Bank

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)

30 other offices, as of the October 2026 filing

Albany, NYArlington, TXAvila Beach, CABoca Raton, FLBowling Green, KYChicago, ILCleveland, OHDenver, COEl Segundo, CAElizabethtown, KYFort Worth, TXHouston, TXJacksonville, FLLansdowne, VALos Angeles, CALouisville, KYMill Valley, CANorfolk, VAPasadena, CAPhiladelphia, PAPittsburgh, PARaleigh, NCRedwood City, CASan Diego, CASan Francisco, CASan Jose, CASanta Barbara, CAScottsdale, AZSeattle, WAWestfield, NJ

States registered or notice-filed

21 states or jurisdictions

AZCACOFLHIIAILINKYMDNCNJNVNYOHORPAPRTXVAWA

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

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

Regulatory assets under management: $10,519,194,162 in the October 2021 data and $40,253,232,272 in the October 2026 data, up 283%.

Total employees: 21 in October 2021 and 193 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. October 2026
   • Registered or notice-filed in IA.
2. August 2026
   • Registered or notice-filed in PR.
3. May 2026
   • Added the business name Cerity Partners Institutional Consulting.
   • Employees performing advisory functions went from 75 to 153.
   • Regulatory assets under management went from $20,818,702,844 to $40,253,232,272 (+93%).
   • Added an office in El Segundo, CA.
   • Added an office in Pittsburgh, PA.
   • Added an office in San Francisco, CA.
   • Added an office in Seattle, WA.
   • Registered or notice-filed in IN, NV, OR, WA.
4. April 2026
   • Employees performing advisory functions went from 68 to 75.
   • Added an office in Albany, NY.
   • Added an office in Avila Beach, CA.
   • Added an office in Boca Raton, FL.
   • Added an office in Denver, CO.
   • Added an office in Elizabethtown, KY.
   • Added an office in Lansdowne, VA.
   • Added an office in Los Angeles, CA.
   • Added an office in Philadelphia, PA.
   • Added an office in San Jose, CA.
   • No longer lists an office in Los Altos, CA.
   • Updated its list of owners and control persons (Schedule A).
5. March 2026
   • Registered or notice-filed in HI.
6. January 2026
   • Registered or notice-filed in MD.
   • No longer registered or notice-filed in IN.
7. November 2025
   • Changed its office addresses in Cleveland, OH.
   • Changed its office addresses in Jacksonville, FL.
   • Added an office in Raleigh, NC.
   • Added an office in San Diego, CA.
   • Added an office in Santa Barbara, CA.
   • Added an office in Scottsdale, AZ.
   • No longer lists an office in Boca Raton, FL.
   • No longer lists an office in Greenwood Village, CO.

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