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Cookson Peirce Wealth Management

Pittsburgh, PASEC-registered investment adviserCRD 110729

Filed as COOKSON PEIRCE WEALTH MANAGEMENT · Legal name Cookson Peirce & Co Inc

Cookson Peirce Wealth Management is an SEC-registered investment advisory firm in Pittsburgh, PA, registered since 1984, reporting $1 billion to $5 billion in regulatory assets under management in its Form ADV filing dated September 24, 2026.

42 years
registered since 1984
$2,555,384,473
assets under management
1 arrangement
Percentage of assets
None
disclosure items (Item 11)

Quick answers

From the filing

How is Cookson Peirce Wealth Management compensated?

On its Form ADV (Item 5.E, October 2026), Cookson Peirce Wealth Management reports these compensation arrangements: a percentage of assets under its management.

Where is Cookson Peirce Wealth Management located?

Cookson Peirce Wealth Management's principal office is in Pittsburgh, PA, according to its Form ADV; the October 2026 filing also lists 3 other offices (Schedule D, Section 1.F).

Is Cookson Peirce Wealth Management registered with the SEC or a state?

Cookson Peirce Wealth Management is an SEC-registered investment advisory firm, registered since 1984. Status as filed: Approved. CRD 110729.

How much does Cookson Peirce Wealth Management manage?

Cookson Peirce Wealth Management reports $2,555,384,473 in regulatory assets under management in its Form ADV filing dated September 24, 2026 (100% discretionary).

How have Cookson Peirce Wealth Management's assets and staff changed since 2021?

In the Form ADV data for Cookson Peirce Wealth Management: Regulatory assets under management: $1,732,170,703 in the October 2021 data and $2,555,384,473 in the October 2026 data, up 48%. Total employees: 19 in October 2021 and 29 in October 2026. Assets under management move with markets as well as with clients coming and going.

What types of clients does Cookson Peirce Wealth Management serve?

By number of clients on Form ADV Item 5.D: individuals (other than high net worth individuals) (1,414); high net worth individuals (130); pension and profit sharing plans (but not the plan participants or government pension plans) (54).

Which custodians does Cookson Peirce Wealth Management use?

Cookson Peirce Wealth Management's most recent Form ADV filing (Schedule D, Section 5.K(3)) lists Charles Schwab & Co., Inc. and Fidelity Distributors Company LLC as custodians holding 10% or more of its separately managed account assets.

Does Cookson Peirce Wealth Management 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/110729

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

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 24, 2026) for its fees and any account minimum, on the SEC's IAPD site.

Regulatory assets under management

Item 5.F
$2,555,384,473

$2,555,384,473 as of October 2026, filing dated September 24, 2026.

Discretionary: $2,555,384,473.Non-discretionary: $0.

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 1,414 Assets $1,463,081,074 (57%)
High net worth individuals
Clients 130 Assets $693,569,357 (27%)
Investment companies
Clients 1 Assets $116,088,733 (5%)
Pension and profit sharing plans (but not the plan participants or government pension plans)
Clients 54 Assets $65,330,420 (3%)
Charitable organizations
Clients 23 Assets $105,749,362 (4%)
State or municipal government entities (including government pension plans)
Clients Fewer than 5 Assets $3,460,083 (0%)
Corporations or other businesses not listed above
Clients 26 Assets $108,105,444 (4%)

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 investment companies (and business development companies)

Registration and firm details

Items 1, 2, 5
Legal name
Cookson Peirce & Co Inc
Registration
SEC-registered investment adviser. Status as filed: Approved.
Registered since
1984 (42 years)
Employees
Total: 29. Performing investment advisory functions: 18.
Wrap fee program participation
Yes.
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)
3 other offices, as of the October 2026 filing
Fairlawn, OHGreenville, SCNaples, FL
States registered or notice-filed
47 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
$1.73B 2021 $2.26B 2022 $1.81B 2023 $1.92B 2024 $2.32B 2025 $2.56B 2026
Data periodAssets under managementEmployeesFiling dated
October 2026$2,555,384,47329September 24, 2026
October 2025$2,323,321,32326March 31, 2025
October 2024$1,924,727,74724March 7, 2024
October 2023$1,813,874,28025September 8, 2023
October 2022$2,262,093,00319March 16, 2022
October 2021$1,732,170,70319September 21, 2021

Regulatory assets under management: $1,732,170,703 in the October 2021 data and $2,555,384,473 in the October 2026 data, up 48%.

Total employees: 19 in October 2021 and 29 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
cooksonpeirce.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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