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Copper Financial

Lenexa, KSSEC-registered investment adviserCRD 168203

Filed as COPPER FINANCIAL · Legal name Copper Financial Network, LLC

Copper Financial is an SEC-registered investment advisory firm in Lenexa, KS, registered since 2015, reporting $100 million to $500 million in regulatory assets under management in its Form ADV filing dated September 3, 2026.

11 years
registered since 2015
$410,682,447
assets under management
3 arrangements
Percentage of assets, Hourly and more
None
disclosure items (Item 11)

Quick answers

From the filing

How is Copper Financial compensated?

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

What does Copper Financial's brochure say about its fees?

Its Form ADV Part 2A brochure dated August 7, 2026 states: Asset-based fee: up to 2.5% of assets a year (the maximum the brochure states). Fees can differ by service and may be negotiable; the brochure is the complete statement.

Where is Copper Financial located?

Copper Financial's principal office is in Lenexa, KS, according to its Form ADV; the October 2026 filing also lists 20 other offices (Schedule D, Section 1.F).

Is Copper Financial registered with the SEC or a state?

Copper Financial is an SEC-registered investment advisory firm, registered since 2015. Status as filed: Approved. CRD 168203.

How much does Copper Financial manage?

Copper Financial reports $410,682,447 in regulatory assets under management in its Form ADV filing dated September 3, 2026 (100% discretionary).

How have Copper Financial's assets and staff changed since 2021?

In the Form ADV data for Copper Financial: Regulatory assets under management: $151,162,159 in the October 2021 data and $410,682,447 in the October 2026 data, up 172%. Total employees: 39 in October 2021 and 50 in October 2026. Assets under management move with markets as well as with clients coming and going.

What types of clients does Copper Financial serve?

By number of clients on Form ADV Item 5.D: individuals (other than high net worth individuals) (4,135); high net worth individuals (30).

Which custodians does Copper Financial use?

Copper Financial's most recent Form ADV filing (Schedule D, Section 5.K(3)) lists Apex Clearing Corporation and Pershing LLC as custodians holding 10% or more of its separately managed account assets.

Does Copper Financial 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/168203

What changed in Copper Financial's recent Form ADV filings?

In the October 2026 filing data: 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

Asset-based fee: up to 2.5% of assets a year (the maximum the brochure states)

The brochure's wording
The maximum annual fee on any TPMA account is 2.5% of assets under management.

As stated in the firm's Form ADV Part 2A brochure dated August 7, 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
$410,682,447

$410,682,447 as of October 2026, filing dated September 3, 2026.

Discretionary: $410,682,447.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 4,135 Assets $366,005,958 (89%)
High net worth individuals
Clients 30 Assets $44,676,489 (11%)
Banking or thrift institutions
Clients Fewer than 5 Assets Not reported
Investment companies
Clients 0 Assets Not reported
Business development companies
Clients 0 Assets Not reported
Pooled investment vehicles (other than investment companies and business development companies)
Clients 0 Assets Not reported
Pension and profit sharing plans (but not the plan participants or government pension plans)
Clients Fewer than 5 Assets Not reported
Charitable organizations
Clients Fewer than 5 Assets Not reported
State or municipal government entities (including government pension plans)
Clients Fewer than 5 Assets Not reported
Other investment advisers
Clients Fewer than 5 Assets Not reported
Insurance companies
Clients Fewer than 5 Assets Not reported
Sovereign wealth funds and foreign official institutions
Clients Fewer than 5 Assets Not reported
Corporations or other businesses not listed above
Clients 0 Assets Not reported
Other
Clients Fewer than 5 Assets Not reported

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
  • Selection of other advisers (including private fund managers)
  • Educational seminars/workshops
  • Other

Registration and firm details

Items 1, 2, 5
Legal name
Copper Financial Network, LLC
Registration
SEC-registered investment adviser. Status as filed: Approved.
Registered since
2015 (11 years)
Employees
Total: 50. Performing investment advisory functions: 44.
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)
20 other offices, as of the October 2026 filing
Blue Springs, MODavis, CAExcelsior Springs, MOGrandview, MOIndependence, MOKansas City, KSKansas City, MOLeavenworth, KSLeawood, KSLee'S Summit, MOLos Angeles, CANew York, NYOklahoma City, OKOlathe, KSOverland Park, KSPleasant Valley, MORaymore, MOShawnee, KSSt Louis, MOZachary, LA
States registered or notice-filed
29 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
$151M 2021 $294M 2022 $276M 2023 $306M 2024 $346M 2025 $411M 2026
Data periodAssets under managementEmployeesFiling dated
October 2026$410,682,44750September 3, 2026
October 2025$346,070,23850July 30, 2025
October 2024$306,448,48656September 6, 2024
October 2023$275,772,95950September 16, 2023
October 2022$294,345,17246April 15, 2022
October 2021$151,162,15939August 10, 2021

Regulatory assets under management: $151,162,159 in the October 2021 data and $410,682,447 in the October 2026 data, up 172%.

Total employees: 39 in October 2021 and 50 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. October 2026
    • Updated its list of owners and control persons (Schedule A).
  2. April 2026
    • Employees performing advisory functions went from 41 to 44.
    • Regulatory assets under management went from $346,070,238 to $410,682,447 (+19%).
    • Added an office in Davis, CA.
    • Added an office in St Louis, MO.
    • No longer lists an office in Bridgeton, MO.
  3. December 2025
    • 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
communityamerica.com/FINANCIAL-PLANNINGcu.financial

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. Copper Financial (CRD 168203): Form ADV filing data as of October 2026.
https://advisorcensus.com/firm/copper-financial-lenexa-ks-168203