HPE Capital Management II, LLC

• A percentage of assets under your management
• Performance-based 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

The brochure lists different fees for different services or strategies; see the brochure for them.

Account minimum: $1,000,000 (the brochure says it may be waived or negotiated)

As stated in the firm's Form ADV Part 2A brochure dated May 7, 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

$840,468,397 as of October 2026, filing dated September 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.

• Portfolio management for pooled investment vehicles (other than investment companies)

Also doing business as

HAUSER PRIVATE EQUITY

Registration

SEC-registered investment adviser. Status as filed: Approved.

Registered since

2019 (7 years)

Employees

Total: 6. Performing investment advisory functions: 5.

Wrap fee program participation

No.

Other offices (Schedule D, Section 1.F)

2 other offices, as of the October 2026 filing

Chicago, ILSanta Monica, CA

States registered or notice-filed

4 states or jurisdictions

CADCILOH

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

2 Reports 2 disclosure items on Form ADV Item 11. View on IAPD.

Questions answered yes on this filing

Criminal matters Items 11.A and 11.B

• 11.A(1) In the past ten years, has the firm or an advisory affiliate been convicted of, or pleaded guilty or no contest to, a felony?
• 11.A(2) In the past ten years, has the firm or an advisory affiliate been charged with a felony?

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

Regulatory assets under management: $300,293,826 in the October 2021 data and $840,468,397 in the October 2026 data, up 180%.

Total employees: 4 in October 2021 and 6 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. April 2026
   • Employees performing advisory functions went from 4 to 5.
   • Regulatory assets under management went from $600,317,271 to $840,468,397 (+40%).
   • Changed its office addresses in Chicago, IL.
   • Registered or notice-filed in IL, OH.
   • Updated its list of owners and control persons (Schedule A).

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