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Cote Financial Management

SEC-registered investment adviserCRD 153088

Filed as COTE FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT · Legal name Cote Financial Management, LLC

Cote Financial Management is an SEC-registered investment advisory firm, registered since 2024, reporting $100 million to $500 million in regulatory assets under management in its Form ADV filing dated March 25, 2026.

2 years
registered since 2024
$151,230,174
assets under management
2 arrangements
Percentage of assets, Hourly
1
disclosure items (Item 11)

Quick answers

From the filing

How is Cote Financial Management compensated?

On its Form ADV (Item 5.E, October 2026), Cote Financial Management reports these compensation arrangements: a percentage of assets under its management; hourly charges. The amounts are in Item 5 of its Form ADV Part 2A brochure.

Is Cote Financial Management registered with the SEC or a state?

Cote Financial Management is an SEC-registered investment advisory firm, registered since 2024. Status as filed: Approved. CRD 153088.

How much does Cote Financial Management manage?

Cote Financial Management reports $151,230,174 in regulatory assets under management in its Form ADV filing dated March 25, 2026 (0% discretionary).

How have Cote Financial Management's assets and staff changed since 2024?

In the Form ADV data for Cote Financial Management: Regulatory assets under management: $120,000,000 in the October 2024 data and $151,230,174 in the October 2026 data, up 26%. Total employees: 3 in October 2024 and 3 in October 2026. Assets under management move with markets as well as with clients coming and going.

What types of clients does Cote Financial Management serve?

By number of clients on Form ADV Item 5.D: individuals (other than high net worth individuals) (104); high net worth individuals (28); corporations or other businesses not listed above (2).

Does Cote Financial Management report any disciplinary disclosures?

Reports 1 disclosure item on Form ADV Item 11: yes answers to 11.E(4) (self-regulatory organization's expulsion, suspension, bar, or restriction). Each question covers the firm and its advisory affiliates, and one event can produce several yes answers. The detail of any item is on the firm's SEC record: https://adviserinfo.sec.gov/firm/summary/153088

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

In the April 2026 filing data: Regulatory assets under management went from $131,566,555 to $151,230,174 (+15%).

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

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

See the firm's brochure (dated March 25, 2026) for its fees and any account minimum, on the SEC's IAPD site.

Regulatory assets under management

Item 5.F
$151,230,174

$151,230,174 as of October 2026, filing dated March 25, 2026.

Discretionary: $0.Non-discretionary: $151,230,174.

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 104 Assets $29,364,895 (19%)
High net worth individuals
Clients 28 Assets $120,252,344 (80%)
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 2 Assets $1,612,935 (1%)
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

Registration and firm details

Items 1, 2, 5
Legal name
Cote Financial Management, LLC
Registration
SEC-registered investment adviser. Status as filed: Approved.
Registered since
2024 (2 years)
Employees
Total: 3. Performing investment advisory functions: 1.
Wrap fee program participation
No.
States registered or notice-filed
3 states or jurisdictions
MANHTX

SEC-registered investment advisers are examined by the SEC. SEC, state, and exempt registration

Disclosures

Item 11

1 Reports 1 disclosure item on Form ADV Item 11. View on IAPD.

Questions answered yes on this filing

Regulatory matters Items 11.C to 11.G

  • 11.E(4) Has a self-regulatory organization or a commodities exchange ever disciplined the firm or an advisory affiliate by expelling or suspending it from membership, barring or suspending it from association with other members, or otherwise restricting its activities?

Each question covers the firm and its advisory affiliates: its current employees other than clerical staff, its officers, partners, and directors, and anyone who controls the firm or is controlled by it. One event can produce yes answers to several questions. SEC-registered advisers and exempt reporting advisers may leave out events more than ten years old, and may answer 11.A(2) and 11.B(2) for pending charges only. What happened, and who was involved, is on the Disclosure Reporting Pages of the IAPD record. Reading a firm's disclosures

Assets and staff over time

Items 5.A, 5.F
$120M 2024 $132M 2025 $151M 2026
Data periodAssets under managementEmployeesFiling dated
October 2026$151,230,1743March 25, 2026
October 2025$131,566,5553April 9, 2025
October 2024$120,000,0003August 23, 2024

Regulatory assets under management: $120,000,000 in the October 2024 data and $151,230,174 in the October 2026 data, up 26%.

Total employees: 3 in October 2024 and 3 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
    • Regulatory assets under management went from $131,566,555 to $151,230,174 (+15%).
  2. December 2025
    • Registered or notice-filed in NH, TX.

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
cfm.servicescotefinancialservices.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. Cote Financial Management (CRD 153088): Form ADV filing data as of October 2026.
https://advisorcensus.com/firm/cote-financial-management-153088