Clearstead; Clearstead Advisory Solutions

• 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

See the firm's brochure (dated March 30, 2026) for its fees and any account minimum, on the SEC's IAPD site.

$33,880,026,978 as of October 2026, filing dated July 31, 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.

• Financial planning services
• Portfolio management for individuals and/or small businesses
• Portfolio management for pooled investment vehicles (other than investment companies)
• Portfolio management for businesses (other than small businesses) or institutional clients
• Pension consulting services
• Selection of other advisers (including private fund managers)
• Publication of periodicals or newsletters
• Other

Legal name

Clearstead Advisors, LLC

Also doing business as

CLEARSTEAD ADVISORY SOLUTIONS, A DIVISION OF CLEARSTEAD ADVISORS, LLC

Registration

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

Registered since

1988 (37 years)

Employees

Total: 280. Performing investment advisory functions: 104.

Wrap fee program participation

Yes.

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

Charles Schwab & Co., Inc.National Financial Services LLC

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)

10 other offices, as of the August 2026 filing

Deerfield, ILHudson, OHLake Oswego, ORNorfolk, VAPepper Pike, OHPhiladelphia, PARaleigh, NCRoanoke, VASeattle, WAWestlake, OH

States registered or notice-filed

52 states or jurisdictions

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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: $7,162,977,375 in the October 2021 data and $33,880,026,978 in the October 2026 data, up 373%.

Total employees: 91 in October 2021 and 280 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. August 2026
   • Added an office in Lake Oswego, OR.
   • Added an office in Philadelphia, PA.
2. April 2026
   • Employees performing advisory functions went from 85 to 104.
   • Regulatory assets under management went from $24,294,182,322 to $33,880,026,978 (+39%).
   • Added an office in Seattle, WA.
   • No longer lists an office in Norfolk, VA.
   • Registered or notice-filed in WY.
3. January 2026
   • No longer lists an office in Valley City, OH.
   • 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.