Kovack Advisors, Inc.

• A percentage of assets under your management
• Hourly charges
• Fixed fees (other than subscription 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

Asset-based fee: up to 2.9% of assets a year (the maximum the brochure states)

As stated in the firm's Form ADV Part 2A brochure dated April 27, 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

$6,279,660,562 as of October 2026, filing dated April 27, 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.

• 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)

Registration

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

Registered since

2004 (22 years)

Employees

Total: 320. Performing investment advisory functions: 300.

Wrap fee program participation

No.

Custodians (Schedule D, Section 5.K(3))

Fidelity Brokerage Services LLCNational Financial Services LLCPershing LLC

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)

21 other offices, as of the May 2026 filing

Aberdeen, SDAdel, GABoca Raton, FLBuchanan, MICoral Springs, FLEvansville, INFloral Park, NYFort Lauderdale, FLGuaynabo, PRLivingston, NJMarietta, GAMiami, FLNewport Beach, CAOgden, UTPlymouth, MAPunta Gorda, FLRoswell, GASan Juan, PRSanta Barbara, CATroy, MIWeston, FL

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

9 Reports 9 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?
• 11.D(1) Has another federal regulator, a state regulator, or a foreign financial regulator ever found that the firm or an advisory affiliate made a false statement or omission, or was dishonest, unfair, or unethical?
• 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

Regulatory assets under management: $3,518,590,788 in the October 2021 data and $6,279,660,562 in the October 2026 data, up 78%.

Total employees: 294 in October 2021 and 320 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 305 to 300.
   • Regulatory assets under management went from $5,533,506,324 to $6,279,660,562 (+13%).
   • Changed its office addresses in Evansville, IN.
   • Changed its office addresses in Troy, MI.
   • Added an office in Floral Park, NY.
   • Added an office in Livingston, NJ.
   • Added an office in Miami, FL.
   • Added an office in Newport Beach, CA.
   • Added an office in Roswell, GA.
   • Added an office in San Juan, PR.
   • No longer lists an office in Adel, GA.
   • No longer lists an office in Altamonte Springs, FL.
   • No longer lists an office in Deer Park, NY.
   • No longer lists an office in Kennesaw, GA.
   • No longer lists an office in Laredo, TX.
   • No longer lists an office in Macon, GA.
   • No longer lists an office in Marietta, GA.
   • No longer lists an office in Moultrie, GA.
   • No longer lists an office in Napoleon, OH.
   • No longer lists an office in Orange, CA.
   • No longer lists an office in Orlando, FL.
2. January 2026
   • Item 11 disclosure answers changed: 9 yes answers, previously 8 (now yes: 11.D(1)).

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