DBA Seaside Financial & Insurance Services

• 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

$81,200,784 as of October 2026, filing dated June 17, 2026.

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

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.

• Financial planning services
• Portfolio management for individuals and/or small businesses
• 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

Legal name

Seaside Advisory Services, Inc.

Registration

State-registered investment adviser. Status as filed: APPROVED.

Registered since

2025 (1 year)

Employees

Total: 4. Performing investment advisory functions: 4.

Wrap fee program participation

No.

Other offices (Schedule D, Section 1.F)

1 other office, as of the June 2026 filing

Greenwich, CT

States registered or notice-filed

4 states or jurisdictions

CACTNYWA

State-registered investment advisers are examined by their state securities regulator. SEC, state, and exempt registration

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

Regulatory assets under management: $129,385,622 in the October 2021 data and $81,200,784 in the October 2026 data, down 37%.

Total employees: 6 in October 2021 and 4 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.

1. March 2026
   • No longer lists an office in Carlsbad, CA.
2. December 2025
   • Employees performing advisory functions went from 5 to 4.

Compared month to month from the SEC's monthly adviser data and the state compilation feed. Owners and control persons are summarized, never named.