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Highland Capital Partners
Filed as HIGHLAND CAPITAL PARTNERS · Legal name Highland Capital Partners LLC
Highland Capital Partners is an exempt reporting adviser in Cambridge, MA, filing reports since 2012. Exempt reporting advisers do not report regulatory assets under management on Form ADV.
Quick answers
From the filingWhere is Highland Capital Partners located?
Highland Capital Partners' principal office is in Cambridge, MA, according to its Form ADV; the April 2026 filing also lists 1 other office (Schedule D, Section 1.F).
How does Highland Capital Partners report to regulators?
Highland Capital Partners is an exempt reporting adviser, filing reports since 2012. Exempt reporting advisers file a shorter Form ADV. Status as filed: ERA - Active. CRD 161205.
Does Highland Capital Partners report any disciplinary disclosures?
Reports 3 disclosure items on Form ADV Item 11: yes answers to 11.C(2) (SEC or CFTC finding of a violation), 11.C(4) (SEC or CFTC order), and 11.C(5) (SEC or CFTC civil money penalty or cease-and-desist order). 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 public record on IAPD: https://adviserinfo.sec.gov/firm/summary/161205
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.ENot reported.
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
Regulatory assets under management
Item 5.FNot 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
Who the firm serves
Item 5.DNot 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.
Advisory services
Item 5.GNot reported.
Registration and firm details
Items 1, 2, 5- Legal name
- Highland Capital Partners LLC
- Reporting status
- Exempt reporting adviser. Status as filed: ERA - Active.
- Reporting since
- 2012 (14 years)
- Employees
- Total: Not reported. Performing investment advisory functions: Not reported.
- Wrap fee program participation
- Not reported.
- Other offices (Schedule D, Section 1.F)
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1 other office, as of the April 2026 filing
- States registered or notice-filed
- Not reported.
Exempt reporting advisers file a shorter form and are examined by no regulator on a routine schedule. SEC, state, and exempt registration
Disclosures
Item 113 Reports 3 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(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?
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| Data period | Assets under management | Employees | Filing dated |
|---|---|---|---|
| October 2026 | Not reported | Not reported | March 31, 2026 |
| October 2025 | Not reported | Not reported | March 28, 2025 |
| October 2024 | Not reported | Not reported | March 20, 2024 |
| October 2023 | Not reported | Not reported | March 21, 2023 |
| October 2022 | Not reported | Not reported | September 20, 2022 |
| October 2021 | Not reported | Not reported | March 22, 2021 |
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 monthsNo 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.
Websites listed on Form ADV
Item 1.ISource: 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. Highland Capital Partners (CRD 161205): Form ADV filing data as of October 2026. https://advisorcensus.com/firm/highland-capital-partners-cambridge-ma-161205