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Insight Investment

New York, NYSEC-registered investment adviserCRD 145995

Filed as INSIGHT INVESTMENT · Legal name Insight North America LLC

Insight Investment is an SEC-registered investment advisory firm in New York, NY, registered since 2009, reporting over $5 billion in regulatory assets under management in its Form ADV filing dated June 2, 2026.

17 years
registered since 2009
$171,094,347,633
assets under management
2 arrangements
Percentage of assets, Performance-based
4
disclosure items (Item 11)

Quick answers

From the filing

How is Insight Investment compensated?

On its Form ADV (Item 5.E, October 2026), Insight Investment reports these compensation arrangements: a percentage of assets under its management; performance-based fees. The amounts are in Item 5 of its Form ADV Part 2A brochure.

Where is Insight Investment located?

Insight Investment's principal office is in New York, NY, according to its Form ADV; the July 2026 filing also lists 3 other offices (Schedule D, Section 1.F).

Is Insight Investment registered with the SEC or a state?

Insight Investment is an SEC-registered investment advisory firm, registered since 2009. Status as filed: Approved. CRD 145995.

How much does Insight Investment manage?

Insight Investment reports $171,094,347,633 in regulatory assets under management in its Form ADV filing dated June 2, 2026 (95% discretionary).

How have Insight Investment's assets and staff changed since 2021?

In the Form ADV data for Insight Investment: Regulatory assets under management: $47,540,236,777 in the October 2021 data and $171,094,347,633 in the October 2026 data, up 260%. Total employees: 116 in October 2021 and 238 in October 2026. Assets under management move with markets as well as with clients coming and going.

What types of clients does Insight Investment serve?

By number of clients on Form ADV Item 5.D: high net worth individuals (1,238); corporations or other businesses not listed above (176); insurance companies (170).

Which custodians does Insight Investment use?

Insight Investment's most recent Form ADV filing (Schedule D, Section 5.K(3)) lists Northern Trust and The Bank of New York Mellon (affiliated with the firm) as custodians holding 10% or more of its separately managed account assets.

Does Insight Investment report any disciplinary disclosures?

Reports 4 disclosure items on Form ADV Item 11: yes answers to 11.C(2) (SEC or CFTC finding of a violation), 11.C(5) (SEC or CFTC civil money penalty or cease-and-desist order), 11.D(2) (another regulator's finding of a violation), and 11.D(4) (another regulator's order in the past ten years). 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/145995

What changed in Insight Investment's recent Form ADV filings?

In the July 2026 filing data: Updated its list of owners and control persons (Schedule A).

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
  • 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

Fees and minimums

Form ADV Part 2A

The brochure lists different fees for different services or strategies. See the firm's brochure (dated March 27, 2026) for its fees and any account minimum, on the SEC's IAPD site.

Regulatory assets under management

Item 5.F
$171,094,347,633

$171,094,347,633 as of October 2026, filing dated June 2, 2026.

Discretionary: $162,568,747,251.Non-discretionary: $8,525,600,382.

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 Fewer than 5 Assets Not reported
High net worth individuals
Clients 1,238 Assets $5,518,478,197 (3%)
Banking or thrift institutions
Clients Fewer than 5 Assets $328,363,792 (0%)
Investment companies
Clients 106 Assets $29,367,140,731 (17%)
Business development companies
Clients 0 Assets Not reported
Pooled investment vehicles (other than investment companies and business development companies)
Clients 22 Assets $3,921,100,499 (2%)
Pension and profit sharing plans (but not the plan participants or government pension plans)
Clients 138 Assets $61,722,824,095 (36%)
Charitable organizations
Clients 8 Assets $686,461,276 (0%)
State or municipal government entities (including government pension plans)
Clients 11 Assets $2,320,632,765 (1%)
Other investment advisers
Clients 7 Assets $26,194,398,778 (15%)
Insurance companies
Clients 170 Assets $19,931,900,553 (12%)
Sovereign wealth funds and foreign official institutions
Clients Fewer than 5 Assets $2,552,477,576 (1%)
Corporations or other businesses not listed above
Clients 176 Assets $18,550,569,371 (11%)

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
  • Portfolio management for individuals and/or small businesses
  • Portfolio management for investment companies (and business development companies)
  • Portfolio management for pooled investment vehicles (other than investment companies)
  • Portfolio management for businesses (other than small businesses) or institutional clients
  • Selection of other advisers (including private fund managers)

Registration and firm details

Items 1, 2, 5
Legal name
Insight North America LLC
Registration
SEC-registered investment adviser. Status as filed: Approved.
Registered since
2009 (17 years)
Employees
Total: 238. Performing investment advisory functions: 112.
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)
3 other offices, as of the July 2026 filing
Boston, MADenver, COSan Francisco, CA
States registered or notice-filed
53 states or jurisdictions
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SEC-registered investment advisers are examined by the SEC. SEC, state, and exempt registration

Disclosures

Item 11

4 Reports 4 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(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?

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
$47.5B 2021 $147B 2022 $119B 2023 $137B 2024 $140B 2025 $171B 2026
Data periodAssets under managementEmployeesFiling dated
October 2026$171,094,347,633238June 2, 2026
October 2025$140,369,825,708218May 27, 2025
October 2024$136,711,545,887212September 27, 2024
October 2023$119,164,282,673224May 24, 2023
October 2022$146,981,291,074203May 4, 2022
October 2021$47,540,236,777116October 3, 2021

Regulatory assets under management: $47,540,236,777 in the October 2021 data and $171,094,347,633 in the October 2026 data, up 260%.

Total employees: 116 in October 2021 and 238 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. July 2026
    • Updated its list of owners and control persons (Schedule A).
  2. June 2026
    • Item 11 disclosure answers changed: 4 yes answers, previously 5 (now no: 11.H(1)(c)).
    • Updated its list of owners and control persons (Schedule A).
  3. April 2026
    • Employees performing advisory functions went from 83 to 112.
    • Regulatory assets under management went from $140,369,825,708 to $171,094,347,633 (+22%).

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
insightinvestment.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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