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Chequers Financial Management LLC

San Francisco, CASEC-registered investment adviserCRD 175209

Filed as CHEQUERS FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT LLC

Chequers Financial Management LLC is an SEC-registered investment advisory firm in San Francisco, CA, registered since 2016, reporting $1 billion to $5 billion in regulatory assets under management in its Form ADV filing dated March 30, 2026.

10 years
registered since 2016
$1,314,341,351
assets under management
3 arrangements
Percentage of assets, Hourly and more
None
disclosure items (Item 11)

Quick answers

From the filing

How is Chequers Financial Management LLC compensated?

On its Form ADV (Item 5.E, October 2026), Chequers Financial Management LLC reports these compensation arrangements: a percentage of assets under its management; hourly charges; fixed fees (other than subscription fees).

How much does Chequers Financial Management LLC charge?

Its Form ADV Part 2A brochure dated March 30, 2026 states: Hourly rate: $750 to $1,250 an hour (financial planning and consulting services). Fees can differ by service and may be negotiable; the brochure is the complete statement.

Where is Chequers Financial Management LLC located?

Chequers Financial Management LLC's principal office is in San Francisco, CA, according to its Form ADV; the April 2026 filing also lists 2 other offices (Schedule D, Section 1.F).

Is Chequers Financial Management LLC registered with the SEC or a state?

Chequers Financial Management LLC is an SEC-registered investment advisory firm, registered since 2016. Status as filed: Approved. CRD 175209.

How much does Chequers Financial Management LLC manage?

Chequers Financial Management LLC reports $1,314,341,351 in regulatory assets under management in its Form ADV filing dated March 30, 2026 (87% discretionary).

How have Chequers Financial Management LLC's assets and staff changed since 2021?

In the Form ADV data for Chequers Financial Management LLC: Regulatory assets under management: $481,438,258 in the October 2021 data and $1,314,341,351 in the October 2026 data, up 173%. Total employees: 7 in October 2021 and 21 in October 2026. Assets under management move with markets as well as with clients coming and going.

What types of clients does Chequers Financial Management LLC serve?

By number of clients on Form ADV Item 5.D: high net worth individuals (244); pension and profit sharing plans (but not the plan participants or government pension plans) (12).

Which custodians does Chequers Financial Management LLC use?

Chequers Financial Management LLC's 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 Chequers Financial Management 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/175209

Does Chequers Financial Management LLC state an account minimum?

Its Form ADV Part 2A brochure dated March 30, 2026 says: "The Firm has established a minimum account size requirement of $2 million. Multiple accounts for the same client may be aggregated to reach this threshold." "At the Firm’s sole discretion, it may accept clients with smaller portfolios where it determines that the smaller portfolio size will not cause a substantial increase of investment risk beyond the client’s identified risk tolerance."

What changed in Chequers Financial Management LLC's recent Form ADV filings?

In the April 2026 filing data: Employees performing advisory functions went from 5 to 13. Regulatory assets under management went from $1,050,177,472 to $1,314,341,351 (+25%). Updated its list of owners and control persons (Schedule A).

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
  • Fixed fees (other than subscription 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

Account minimum: $2,000,000 (the brochure says it may be waived or negotiated)

The brochure's wording
The Firm has established a minimum account size requirement of $2 million. Multiple accounts for the same client may be aggregated to reach this threshold.
At the Firm’s sole discretion, it may accept clients with smaller portfolios where it determines that the smaller portfolio size will not cause a substantial increase of investment risk beyond the client’s identified risk tolerance.

Hourly rate: $750 to $1,250 an hour (financial planning and consulting services)

The brochure's wording
Our hourly rates range between $750 to $1,250 depending upon the nature of the requested services and the extent to which the project falls outside our normal scope of services.

As stated in the firm's Form ADV Part 2A brochure dated March 30, 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
$1,314,341,351

$1,314,341,351 as of October 2026, filing dated March 30, 2026.

Discretionary: $1,142,027,100.Non-discretionary: $172,314,251.

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 0 Assets $0 (0%)
High net worth individuals
Clients 244 Assets $1,295,850,758 (99%)
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 12 Assets $11,690,783 (1%)
Charitable organizations
Clients Fewer than 5 Assets $6,799,810 (1%)
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
  • Portfolio management for businesses (other than small businesses) or institutional clients
  • Selection of other advisers (including private fund managers)
  • Other

Registration and firm details

Items 1, 2, 5
Registration
SEC-registered investment adviser. Status as filed: Approved.
Registered since
2016 (10 years)
Employees
Total: 21. Performing investment advisory functions: 13.
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)
2 other offices, as of the April 2026 filing
Irvine, CAMeridian, ID
States registered or notice-filed
6 states or jurisdictions
CAFLNJNYTXWA

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
$481M 2021 $590M 2022 $643M 2023 $812M 2024 $1.05B 2025 $1.31B 2026
Data periodAssets under managementEmployeesFiling dated
October 2026$1,314,341,35121March 30, 2026
October 2025$1,050,177,47212March 31, 2025
October 2024$811,985,40812March 23, 2024
October 2023$642,938,88612March 22, 2023
October 2022$590,477,94712September 2, 2022
October 2021$481,438,2587March 23, 2021

Regulatory assets under management: $481,438,258 in the October 2021 data and $1,314,341,351 in the October 2026 data, up 173%.

Total employees: 7 in October 2021 and 21 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 5 to 13.
    • Regulatory assets under management went from $1,050,177,472 to $1,314,341,351 (+25%).
    • 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
chequersfinancial.comlinkein.com/COMPANY/CHEQUERS-FINANCIAL-MANAGEMENTthewealthintersection.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. Chequers Financial Management LLC (CRD 175209): Form ADV filing data as of October 2026.
https://advisorcensus.com/firm/chequers-financial-management-llc-san-francisco-ca-175209