First Financial Services

• Hourly charges
• Fixed fees (other than subscription fees)
• Commissions
• 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

Not 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

Not 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.

• Financial planning services
• Pension consulting services

Legal name

William A. Russell, Inc.

Registration

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

Registered since

1999 (27 years)

Employees

Total: 3. Performing investment advisory functions: 3.

Wrap fee program participation

No.

States registered or notice-filed

1 state or jurisdiction

NY

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

No 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.

Not reported.