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Critical Frontier
Filed as CRITICAL FRONTIER · Legal name Yield Capital Partners LLC
Critical Frontier is an exempt reporting adviser in Montecito, CA, filing reports since 2024. Exempt reporting advisers do not report regulatory assets under management on Form ADV.
Quick answers
From the filingWhere is Critical Frontier located?
Critical Frontier's principal office is in Montecito, CA, according to its Form ADV.
How does Critical Frontier report to regulators?
Critical Frontier is an exempt reporting adviser, filing reports since 2024. Exempt reporting advisers file a shorter Form ADV. Status as filed: ERA - Active. CRD 172281.
How have Critical Frontier's assets and staff changed since 2021?
In the Form ADV data for Critical Frontier: Regulatory assets under management: $217,721,616 in the October 2021 data and $267,223,980 in the October 2024 data, up 23%. Total employees: 2 in October 2021 and 2 in October 2024. Assets under management move with markets as well as with clients coming and going.
Does Critical Frontier report any disciplinary disclosures?
Reports no disclosure items on Form ADV Item 11. The detail of any item is on the firm's public record on IAPD: https://adviserinfo.sec.gov/firm/summary/172281
What changed in Critical Frontier's recent Form ADV filings?
In the April 2026 filing data: Added the business name Critical Frontier.
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.ENot reported.
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.FNot reported.
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.DNot 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.GNot reported.
Registration and firm details
Items 1, 2, 5- Legal name
- Yield Capital Partners LLC
- Also doing business as
- CRITICAL FRONTIER
- Reporting status
- Exempt reporting adviser. Status as filed: ERA - Active.
- Reporting since
- 2024 (1 year)
- Employees
- Total: Not reported. Performing investment advisory functions: Not reported.
- Wrap fee program participation
- Not reported.
- States registered or notice-filed
- Not reported.
Exempt reporting advisers file a shorter form and are examined by no regulator on a routine schedule. SEC, state, and exempt registration
Disclosures
Item 11None 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| Data period | Assets under management | Employees | Filing dated |
|---|---|---|---|
| October 2026 | Not reported | Not reported | March 16, 2026 |
| October 2025 | Not reported | Not reported | March 26, 2025 |
| October 2024 | $267,223,980 | 2 | March 13, 2024 |
| October 2023 | $327,948,012 | 4 | March 29, 2023 |
| October 2022 | $361,682,868 | 4 | April 29, 2022 |
| October 2021 | $217,721,616 | 2 | August 5, 2021 |
Regulatory assets under management: $217,721,616 in the October 2021 data and $267,223,980 in the October 2024 data, up 23%.
Total employees: 2 in October 2021 and 2 in October 2024.
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- April 2026
- Added the business name Critical Frontier.
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. Critical Frontier (CRD 172281): Form ADV filing data as of October 2026. https://advisorcensus.com/firm/critical-frontier-montecito-ca-172281