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Fourstar Wealth Advisors, LLC

Chicago, ILSEC-registered investment adviserCRD 169613

Filed as FOURSTAR WEALTH ADVISORS, LLC

Fourstar Wealth Advisors, LLC is an SEC-registered investment advisory firm in Chicago, IL, registered since 2017, reporting $1 billion to $5 billion in regulatory assets under management in its Form ADV filing dated September 30, 2026.

9 years
registered since 2017
$1,420,690,494
assets under management
3 arrangements
Percentage of assets, Hourly and more
5
disclosure items (Item 11)

Quick answers

From the filing

How is Fourstar Wealth Advisors, LLC compensated?

On its Form ADV (Item 5.E, October 2026), Fourstar Wealth Advisors, LLC reports these compensation arrangements: a percentage of assets under its management; hourly charges; fixed fees (other than subscription fees).

Where is Fourstar Wealth Advisors, LLC located?

Fourstar Wealth Advisors, LLC's principal office is in Chicago, IL, according to its Form ADV; the October 2026 filing also lists 16 other offices (Schedule D, Section 1.F).

Is Fourstar Wealth Advisors, LLC registered with the SEC or a state?

Fourstar Wealth Advisors, LLC is an SEC-registered investment advisory firm, registered since 2017. Status as filed: Approved. CRD 169613.

How much does Fourstar Wealth Advisors, LLC manage?

Fourstar Wealth Advisors, LLC reports $1,420,690,494 in regulatory assets under management in its Form ADV filing dated September 30, 2026 (100% discretionary).

How have Fourstar Wealth Advisors, LLC's assets and staff changed since 2021?

In the Form ADV data for Fourstar Wealth Advisors, LLC: Regulatory assets under management: $487,829,283 in the October 2021 data and $1,420,690,494 in the October 2026 data, up 191%. Total employees: 25 in October 2021 and 48 in October 2026. Assets under management move with markets as well as with clients coming and going.

What types of clients does Fourstar Wealth Advisors, LLC serve?

By number of clients on Form ADV Item 5.D: individuals (other than high net worth individuals) (1,466); high net worth individuals (287); pension and profit sharing plans (but not the plan participants or government pension plans) (27).

Which custodians does Fourstar Wealth Advisors, LLC use?

Fourstar Wealth Advisors, LLC's most recent Form ADV filing (Schedule D, Section 5.K(3)) lists Charles Schwab & Co., Inc. and Raymond James & Associates, Inc. as custodians holding 10% or more of its separately managed account assets.

Does Fourstar Wealth Advisors, LLC report any disciplinary disclosures?

Reports 5 disclosure items on Form ADV Item 11: yes answers to 11.D(2) (another regulator's finding of a violation), 11.D(4) (another regulator's order in the past ten years), 11.D(5) (another regulator's denial, suspension, or revocation of a registration or license, bar, or restriction), 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/169613

Does Fourstar Wealth Advisors, LLC state an account minimum?

Its Form ADV Part 2A brochure dated March 31, 2026 says: "FourStar does not impose a stated minimum fee or minimum portfolio value for starting and maintaining an investment management relationship."

What changed in Fourstar Wealth Advisors, LLC's recent Form ADV filings?

In the October 2026 filing data: Added the business name Financial Planning Strategies. Added an office in Oakbrook, IL. No longer lists an office in Oakbrook Terrace, IL.

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)

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

Account minimum: None

The brochure's wording
FourStar does not impose a stated minimum fee or minimum portfolio value for starting and maintaining an investment management relationship.

As stated in the firm's Form ADV Part 2A brochure dated March 31, 2026. Fees can differ by service and may be negotiable; the brochure is the complete statement. Read the brochure on the SEC's IAPD site

Regulatory assets under management

Item 5.F
$1,420,690,494

$1,420,690,494 as of October 2026, filing dated September 30, 2026.

Discretionary: $1,420,690,494.Non-discretionary: $0.

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 1,466 Assets $396,859,230 (28%)
High net worth individuals
Clients 287 Assets $968,362,223 (68%)
Pooled investment vehicles (other than investment companies and business development companies)
Clients 2 Assets $8,071,747 (1%)
Pension and profit sharing plans (but not the plan participants or government pension plans)
Clients 27 Assets $31,809,168 (2%)
Charitable organizations
Clients 4 Assets $8,654,949 (1%)
Corporations or other businesses not listed above
Clients 12 Assets $6,933,177 (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 pooled investment vehicles (other than investment companies)
  • Pension consulting services
  • Selection of other advisers (including private fund managers)

Registration and firm details

Items 1, 2, 5
Also doing business as
FAMILY WEALTH LEGACY ADVISORS, FINANCIAL PLANNING STRATEGIES
Registration
SEC-registered investment adviser. Status as filed: Approved.
Registered since
2017 (9 years)
Employees
Total: 48. Performing investment advisory functions: 37.
Wrap fee program participation
No.
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)
16 other offices, as of the October 2026 filing
Battle Creek, MICape Coral, FLChicago, ILColorado Springs, COCrestwood, ILLas Vegas, NVLexington, KYLos Angeles, CAOakbrook, ILProvidence, RIReno, NVSan Jose, CAScottsdale, AZWaxahachie, TXWayne, NJWheaton, IL
States registered or notice-filed
36 states or jurisdictions
AZCACODCDEFLGAILINKSKYMAMDMIMNMONCNENHNJNMNVNYOHOKORPARISCTNTXUTVAVTWAWI

SEC-registered investment advisers are examined by the SEC. SEC, state, and exempt registration

Disclosures

Item 11

5 Reports 5 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.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.D(5) Has another federal regulator, a state regulator, or a foreign financial regulator ever denied, suspended, or revoked the registration or license of the firm or an advisory affiliate, prevented either by order from associating with an investment-related business, or restricted either one's 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?
  • 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
$488M 2021 $604M 2022 $677M 2023 $1.02B 2024 $1.24B 2025 $1.42B 2026
Data periodAssets under managementEmployeesFiling dated
October 2026$1,420,690,49448September 30, 2026
October 2025$1,240,902,90850June 30, 2025
October 2024$1,018,874,41043May 30, 2024
October 2023$677,126,44829October 1, 2023
October 2022$604,467,94326September 25, 2022
October 2021$487,829,28325March 31, 2021

Regulatory assets under management: $487,829,283 in the October 2021 data and $1,420,690,494 in the October 2026 data, up 191%.

Total employees: 25 in October 2021 and 48 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. October 2026
    • Added the business name Financial Planning Strategies.
    • Added an office in Oakbrook, IL.
    • No longer lists an office in Oakbrook Terrace, IL.
  2. April 2026
    • Item 11 disclosure answers changed: 5 yes answers, previously 0 (now yes: 11.D(2), 11.D(4), 11.D(5), 11.E(2), 11.E(4)).
    • Employees performing advisory functions went from 45 to 37.
    • Regulatory assets under management went from $1,240,902,908 to $1,420,690,494 (+14%).
    • Added an office in Cape Coral, FL.
    • Registered or notice-filed in OK, OR.
  3. March 2026
    • Added an office in Colorado Springs, CO.
  4. December 2025
    • Registered or notice-filed in MN, MO, VT, WA.
  5. November 2025
    • Changed its office addresses in Los Angeles, CA.

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
advice.fieldstonefinancial.comcollarstocks.blogfieldstonefinancial.comfinancialadvisorsworkshop.comfourstarwealth.comlifelongincome.commain.advisoryoptionsforcpas.commain.cutmyfeesinhalf.commain.fieldstonefinancial.comsustainableretirementincome.comtheleadershipmatrix.blogtimeto.planyourexitstrategy.comtodaysmarketexplained.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. Fourstar Wealth Advisors, LLC (CRD 169613): Form ADV filing data as of October 2026.
https://advisorcensus.com/firm/fourstar-wealth-advisors-llc-chicago-il-169613