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Chartered Advisory Group

Chadds Ford, PASEC-registered investment adviserCRD 116517

Filed as CHARTERED ADVISORY GROUP · Legal name Chartered Advisory Group, Inc.

Chartered Advisory Group is an SEC-registered investment advisory firm in Chadds Ford, PA, registered since 2011, reporting $100 million to $500 million in regulatory assets under management in its Form ADV filing dated March 23, 2026.

15 years
registered since 2011
$127,713,140
assets under management
3 arrangements
Percentage of assets, Fixed fees and more
None
disclosure items (Item 11)

Quick answers

From the filing

How is Chartered Advisory Group compensated?

On its Form ADV (Item 5.E, October 2026), Chartered Advisory Group reports these compensation arrangements: a percentage of assets under its management; fixed fees (other than subscription fees); commissions.

Where is Chartered Advisory Group located?

Chartered Advisory Group's principal office is in Chadds Ford, PA, according to its Form ADV; the April 2026 filing also lists 1 other office (Schedule D, Section 1.F).

Is Chartered Advisory Group registered with the SEC or a state?

Chartered Advisory Group is an SEC-registered investment advisory firm, registered since 2011. Status as filed: Approved. CRD 116517.

How much does Chartered Advisory Group manage?

Chartered Advisory Group reports $127,713,140 in regulatory assets under management in its Form ADV filing dated March 23, 2026 (39% discretionary).

How have Chartered Advisory Group's assets and staff changed since 2021?

In the Form ADV data for Chartered Advisory Group: Regulatory assets under management: $147,555,079 in the October 2021 data and $127,713,140 in the October 2026 data, down 13%. Total employees: 7 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 Chartered Advisory Group serve?

By number of clients on Form ADV Item 5.D: individuals (other than high net worth individuals) (263); high net worth individuals (20).

Which custodians does Chartered Advisory Group use?

Chartered Advisory Group's most recent Form ADV filing (Schedule D, Section 5.K(3)) lists Allianz Life Insurance Company of North America and Charles Schwab & Co., Inc. as custodians holding 10% or more of its separately managed account assets.

Does Chartered Advisory Group 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/116517

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
  • Fixed fees (other than subscription fees)
  • Commissions

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

The brochure lists different fees for different services or strategies. See the firm's brochure (dated March 23, 2026) for its fees and any account minimum, on the SEC's IAPD site.

Regulatory assets under management

Item 5.F
$127,713,140

$127,713,140 as of October 2026, filing dated March 23, 2026.

Discretionary: $49,747,500.Non-discretionary: $77,965,640.

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 263 Assets $97,875,963 (77%)
High net worth individuals
Clients 20 Assets $29,837,177 (23%)
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 0 Assets $0 (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 0 Assets $0 (0%)
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
  • Educational seminars/workshops
  • Other

Registration and firm details

Items 1, 2, 5
Legal name
Chartered Advisory Group, Inc.
Registration
SEC-registered investment adviser. Status as filed: Approved.
Registered since
2011 (15 years)
Employees
Total: 6. Performing investment advisory functions: 4.
Wrap fee program participation
No.
Custodians (Schedule D, Section 5.K(3))
Allianz Life Insurance Company of North AmericaCharles 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)
1 other office, as of the April 2026 filing
Harrisburg, PA
States registered or notice-filed
3 states or jurisdictions
DEMDPA

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
$148M 2021 $156M 2022 $137M 2023 $119M 2024 $121M 2025 $128M 2026
Data periodAssets under managementEmployeesFiling dated
October 2026$127,713,1406March 23, 2026
October 2025$120,771,0286March 6, 2025
October 2024$119,429,5756March 15, 2024
October 2023$137,267,9076August 7, 2023
October 2022$155,515,8606March 9, 2022
October 2021$147,555,0797March 18, 2021

Regulatory assets under management: $147,555,079 in the October 2021 data and $127,713,140 in the October 2026 data, down 13%.

Total employees: 7 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
cagwealth.comcharteredadvisorygroup.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. Chartered Advisory Group (CRD 116517): Form ADV filing data as of October 2026.
https://advisorcensus.com/firm/chartered-advisory-group-chadds-ford-pa-116517