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First Kentucky Securities Corp

Louisville, KYSEC-registered investment adviserCRD 7524

Filed as FIRST KENTUCKY SECURITIES CORP · Legal name First Kentucky Securities Corporation

First Kentucky Securities Corp is an SEC-registered investment advisory firm in Louisville, KY, registered since 2007, reporting $500 million to $1 billion in regulatory assets under management in its Form ADV filing dated December 2, 2025.

19 years
registered since 2007
$566,003,046
assets under management
5 arrangements
Percentage of assets, Hourly and more
7
disclosure items (Item 11)

Quick answers

From the filing

How is First Kentucky Securities Corp compensated?

On its Form ADV (Item 5.E, October 2026), First Kentucky Securities Corp reports these compensation arrangements: a percentage of assets under its management; hourly charges; fixed fees (other than subscription fees); performance-based fees; other.

Where is First Kentucky Securities Corp located?

First Kentucky Securities Corp's principal office is in Louisville, KY, according to its Form ADV; the January 2026 filing also lists 1 other office (Schedule D, Section 1.F).

Is First Kentucky Securities Corp registered with the SEC or a state?

First Kentucky Securities Corp is an SEC-registered investment advisory firm, registered since 2007. Status as filed: Approved. CRD 7524.

How much does First Kentucky Securities Corp manage?

First Kentucky Securities Corp reports $566,003,046 in regulatory assets under management in its Form ADV filing dated December 2, 2025 (50% discretionary).

How have First Kentucky Securities Corp's assets and staff changed since 2021?

In the Form ADV data for First Kentucky Securities Corp: Regulatory assets under management: $565,862,068 in the October 2021 data and $566,003,046 in the October 2026 data, unchanged. Total employees: 30 in October 2021 and 19 in October 2026. Assets under management move with markets as well as with clients coming and going.

What types of clients does First Kentucky Securities Corp serve?

By number of clients on Form ADV Item 5.D: individuals (other than high net worth individuals) (1,108); high net worth individuals (413); charitable organizations (4).

Which custodians does First Kentucky Securities Corp use?

First Kentucky Securities Corp's most recent Form ADV filing (Schedule D, Section 5.K(3)) lists RBC Capital Markets, LLC as a custodian holding 10% or more of its separately managed account assets.

Does First Kentucky Securities Corp report any disciplinary disclosures?

Reports 7 disclosure items on Form ADV Item 11: yes answers to 7 questions about regulatory matters (11.C(1), 11.C(2), 11.C(4), 11.C(5), 11.D(2), 11.D(4), 11.E(2)). 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/7524

What changed in First Kentucky Securities Corp's recent Form ADV filings?

In the January 2026 filing data: Employees performing advisory functions went from 17 to 16. Regulatory assets under management went from $678,564,542 to $566,003,046 (-17%). Registered or notice-filed in VA.

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)
  • 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 December 2, 2025) for its fees and any account minimum, on the SEC's IAPD site.

Regulatory assets under management

Item 5.F
$566,003,046

$566,003,046 as of October 2026, filing dated December 2, 2025.

Discretionary: $282,287,515.Non-discretionary: $283,715,531.

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 1,108 Assets $185,152,529 (33%)
High net worth individuals
Clients 413 Assets $369,733,199 (65%)
Pension and profit sharing plans (but not the plan participants or government pension plans)
Clients 2 Assets $3,000,146 (1%)
Charitable organizations
Clients 4 Assets $2,215,493 (0%)
State or municipal government entities (including government pension plans)
Clients 1 Assets $5,051,851 (1%)
Corporations or other businesses not listed above
Clients 2 Assets $849,828 (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 businesses (other than small businesses) or institutional clients
  • Selection of other advisers (including private fund managers)
  • Security ratings or pricing services

Registration and firm details

Items 1, 2, 5
Legal name
First Kentucky Securities Corporation
Also doing business as
FIRST CREDIT ADVISORS
Registration
SEC-registered investment adviser. Status as filed: Approved.
Registered since
2007 (19 years)
Employees
Total: 19. Performing investment advisory functions: 16.
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)
1 other office, as of the January 2026 filing
Lexington, KY
States registered or notice-filed
16 states or jurisdictions
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SEC-registered investment advisers are examined by the SEC. SEC, state, and exempt registration

Disclosures

Item 11

7 Reports 7 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.C(1) Has the SEC or the CFTC ever found that the firm or an advisory affiliate made a false statement or omission?
  • 11.C(2) Has the SEC or the CFTC ever found that the firm or an advisory affiliate was involved in a violation of SEC or CFTC regulations or statutes?
  • 11.C(4) Has the SEC or the CFTC ever entered an order against the firm or an advisory affiliate in connection with investment-related activity?
  • 11.C(5) Has the SEC or the CFTC ever imposed a civil money penalty on the firm or an advisory affiliate, or ordered the firm or an advisory affiliate to cease and desist from an activity?
  • 11.D(2) Has another federal regulator, a state regulator, or a foreign financial regulator ever found that the firm or an advisory affiliate was involved in a violation of investment-related regulations or statutes?
  • 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?
  • 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?

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
$566M 2021 $717M 2022 $641M 2023 $535M 2024 $679M 2025 $566M 2026
Data periodAssets under managementEmployeesFiling dated
October 2026$566,003,04619December 2, 2025
October 2025$678,564,54220December 18, 2024
October 2024$535,292,80224July 10, 2024
October 2023$641,112,26525January 18, 2023
October 2022$717,175,16333December 7, 2021
October 2021$565,862,06830January 6, 2021

Regulatory assets under management: $565,862,068 in the October 2021 data and $566,003,046 in the October 2026 data, unchanged.

Total employees: 30 in October 2021 and 19 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. January 2026
    • Employees performing advisory functions went from 17 to 16.
    • Regulatory assets under management went from $678,564,542 to $566,003,046 (-17%).
    • Registered or notice-filed in VA.

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
firstky.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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AdvisorCensus. First Kentucky Securities Corp (CRD 7524): Form ADV filing data as of October 2026.
https://advisorcensus.com/firm/first-kentucky-securities-corp-louisville-ky-7524