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Davenport & Company LLC

Richmond, VASEC-registered investment adviserCRD 1588

Filed as DAVENPORT & COMPANY LLC

Davenport & Company LLC is an SEC-registered investment advisory firm in Richmond, VA, registered since 1977, reporting over $5 billion in regulatory assets under management in its Form ADV filing dated July 27, 2026.

49 years
registered since 1977
$24,699,034,685
assets under management
6 arrangements
Percentage of assets, Hourly and more
2
disclosure items (Item 11)

Quick answers

From the filing

How is Davenport & Company LLC compensated?

On its Form ADV (Item 5.E, October 2026), Davenport & Company LLC reports these compensation arrangements: a percentage of assets under its management; hourly charges; fixed fees (other than subscription fees); commissions; performance-based fees; other.

Where is Davenport & Company LLC located?

Davenport & Company LLC's principal office is in Richmond, VA, according to its Form ADV; the August 2026 filing also lists 21 other offices (Schedule D, Section 1.F).

Is Davenport & Company LLC registered with the SEC or a state?

Davenport & Company LLC is an SEC-registered investment advisory firm, registered since 1977. Status as filed: Approved. CRD 1588.

How much does Davenport & Company LLC manage?

Davenport & Company LLC reports $24,699,034,685 in regulatory assets under management in its Form ADV filing dated July 27, 2026 (97% discretionary).

How have Davenport & Company LLC's assets and staff changed since 2021?

In the Form ADV data for Davenport & Company LLC: Regulatory assets under management: $16,080,856,422 in the October 2021 data and $24,699,034,685 in the October 2026 data, up 54%. Total employees: 447 in October 2021 and 525 in October 2026. Assets under management move with markets as well as with clients coming and going.

What types of clients does Davenport & Company LLC serve?

By number of clients on Form ADV Item 5.D: individuals (other than high net worth individuals) (11,188); high net worth individuals (5,667); charitable organizations (595).

Which custodians does Davenport & Company LLC use?

Davenport & Company LLC's most recent Form ADV filing (Schedule D, Section 5.K(3)) lists Pershing LLC as a custodian holding 10% or more of its separately managed account assets.

Does Davenport & Company LLC report any disciplinary disclosures?

Reports 2 disclosure items on Form ADV Item 11: yes answers to 11.E(2) (self-regulatory organization's finding of a rule violation) and 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/1588

What changed in Davenport & Company LLC's recent Form ADV filings?

In the August 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)
  • Commissions
  • Performance-based fees
  • Other

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 June 1, 2026) for its fees and any account minimum, on the SEC's IAPD site.

Regulatory assets under management

Item 5.F
$24,699,034,685

$24,699,034,685 as of October 2026, filing dated July 27, 2026.

Discretionary: $23,929,304,065.Non-discretionary: $769,730,620.

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 11,188 Assets $3,835,154,192 (16%)
High net worth individuals
Clients 5,667 Assets $14,065,713,375 (57%)
Banking or thrift institutions
Clients Fewer than 5 Assets $0 (0%)
Investment companies
Clients 1 Assets $4,089,877,437 (17%)
Business development companies
Clients 0 Assets $0 (0%)
Pooled investment vehicles (other than investment companies and business development companies)
Clients 3 Assets $679,538,093 (3%)
Pension and profit sharing plans (but not the plan participants or government pension plans)
Clients 114 Assets $322,431,037 (1%)
Charitable organizations
Clients 595 Assets $1,264,421,416 (5%)
State or municipal government entities (including government pension plans)
Clients 4 Assets $69,371,009 (0%)
Other investment advisers
Clients Fewer than 5 Assets $0 (0%)
Insurance companies
Clients 3 Assets $26,846,967 (0%)
Sovereign wealth funds and foreign official institutions
Clients Fewer than 5 Assets $0 (0%)
Corporations or other businesses not listed above
Clients 98 Assets $223,091,143 (1%)
Other
Clients 51 Assets $122,590,016 (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
  • Portfolio management for investment companies (and business development companies)
  • Portfolio management for pooled investment vehicles (other than investment companies)
  • Portfolio management for businesses (other than small businesses) or institutional clients
  • Pension consulting services
  • Selection of other advisers (including private fund managers)
  • Educational seminars/workshops

Registration and firm details

Items 1, 2, 5
Also doing business as
DAVENPORT ASSET MANAGEMENT, DAVENPORT FINANCIAL ADVISORS
Registration
SEC-registered investment adviser. Status as filed: Approved.
Registered since
1977 (49 years)
Employees
Total: 525. Performing investment advisory functions: 228.
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)
21 other offices, as of the August 2026 filing
Abingdon, VACharlottesville, VADanville, VAFarmville, VAFranklin, VAFredericksburg, VAGreensboro, NCHarrisonburg, VAKilmarnock, VALynchburg, VAMarion, VANewport News, VANorfolk, VARaleigh, NCRichmond, VARoanoke, VASanford, NCStaunton, VASuffolk, VAVirginia Beach, VAWilliamsburg, VA
States registered or notice-filed
51 states or jurisdictions
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SEC-registered investment advisers are examined by the SEC. SEC, state, and exempt registration

Disclosures

Item 11

2 Reports 2 disclosure items on Form ADV Item 11. View on IAPD.

Questions answered yes on this filing

Regulatory matters Items 11.C to 11.G

  • 11.E(2) Has a self-regulatory organization or a commodities exchange ever found that the firm or an advisory affiliate was involved in a violation of its rules, other than a minor rule violation under a plan the SEC approved?
  • 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
$16.1B 2021 $20.8B 2022 $16.6B 2023 $19.3B 2024 $22.5B 2025 $24.7B 2026
Data periodAssets under managementEmployeesFiling dated
October 2026$24,699,034,685525July 27, 2026
October 2025$22,474,315,624507July 28, 2025
October 2024$19,332,677,961494September 9, 2024
October 2023$16,588,083,655478August 3, 2023
October 2022$20,825,630,584476July 12, 2022
October 2021$16,080,856,422447September 28, 2021

Regulatory assets under management: $16,080,856,422 in the October 2021 data and $24,699,034,685 in the October 2026 data, up 54%.

Total employees: 447 in October 2021 and 525 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. August 2026
    • Updated its list of owners and control persons (Schedule A).
  2. May 2026
    • Updated its list of owners and control persons (Schedule A).
  3. April 2026
    • Item 11 disclosure answers changed: 2 yes answers, previously 5 (now no: 11.C(2), 11.C(4), 11.C(5)).
    • Employees performing advisory functions went from 216 to 228.
  4. March 2026
    • Updated its list of owners and control persons (Schedule A).
  5. November 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
investdavenport.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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