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CRF Financial Group is an SEC-registered investment advisory firm in Indianapolis, IN, registered since 2011, reporting $100 million to $500 million in regulatory assets under management in its Form ADV filing dated January 18, 2024.
Quick answers
From the filingHow is CRF Financial Group compensated?
On its Form ADV (Item 5.E, October 2026), CRF Financial Group reports these compensation arrangements: a percentage of assets under its management.
Where is CRF Financial Group located?
CRF Financial Group's principal office is in Indianapolis, IN, according to its Form ADV.
Is CRF Financial Group registered with the SEC or a state?
CRF Financial Group is an SEC-registered investment advisory firm, registered since 2011. Status as filed: Approved. CRD 127388.
How much does CRF Financial Group manage?
CRF Financial Group reports $279,481,430 in regulatory assets under management in its Form ADV filing dated January 18, 2024 (0% discretionary).
How have CRF Financial Group's assets and staff changed since 2021?
In the Form ADV data for CRF Financial Group: Regulatory assets under management: $237,763,956 in the October 2021 data and $279,481,430 in the October 2026 data, up 18%. Total employees: 1 in October 2021 and 1 in October 2026. Assets under management move with markets as well as with clients coming and going.
What types of clients does CRF Financial Group serve?
By number of clients on Form ADV Item 5.D: pooled investment vehicles (other than investment companies and business development companies) (37).
Does CRF Financial Group report any disciplinary disclosures?
Reports 1 disclosure item on Form ADV Item 11: yes answers to 11.D(4) (another regulator's order in the past ten years). 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/127388
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
Regulatory assets under management
Item 5.F$279,481,430 as of October 2026, filing dated January 18, 2024.
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.DA 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- Portfolio management for pooled investment vehicles (other than investment companies)
Registration and firm details
Items 1, 2, 5- Registration
- SEC-registered investment adviser. Status as filed: Approved.
- Registered since
- 2011 (15 years)
- Employees
- Total: 1. Performing investment advisory functions: 1.
- Wrap fee program participation
- No.
- States registered or notice-filed
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1 state or jurisdiction
SEC-registered investment advisers are examined by the SEC. SEC, state, and exempt registration
Disclosures
Item 111 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.D(4) In the past ten years, has another federal regulator, a state regulator, or a foreign financial regulator entered an order against the firm or an advisory affiliate in connection with investment-related activity?
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| Data period | Assets under management | Employees | Filing dated |
|---|---|---|---|
| October 2026 | $279,481,430 | 1 | January 18, 2024 |
| October 2025 | $279,481,430 | 1 | January 18, 2024 |
| October 2024 | $279,481,430 | 1 | January 18, 2024 |
| October 2023 | $283,585,864 | 1 | February 15, 2023 |
| October 2022 | $289,324,220 | 1 | March 29, 2022 |
| October 2021 | $237,763,956 | 1 | January 8, 2021 |
Regulatory assets under management: $237,763,956 in the October 2021 data and $279,481,430 in the October 2026 data, up 18%.
Total employees: 1 in October 2021 and 1 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 monthsNo 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.ISource: 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. CRF Financial Group (CRD 127388): Form ADV filing data as of October 2026. https://advisorcensus.com/firm/crf-financial-group-indianapolis-in-127388