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Optima Capital Management

Tempe, AZSEC-registered investment adviserCRD 306036

Filed as OPTIMA CAPITAL MANAGEMENT · Legal name Optima Capital Management LLC

Optima Capital Management is an SEC-registered investment advisory firm in Tempe, AZ, registered since 2025, reporting $100 million to $500 million in regulatory assets under management in its Form ADV filing dated April 22, 2026.

1 year
registered since 2025
$150,319,761
assets under management
1 arrangement
Percentage of assets
1
disclosure items (Item 11)

Quick answers

From the filing

How is Optima Capital Management compensated?

On its Form ADV (Item 5.E, October 2026), Optima Capital Management reports these compensation arrangements: a percentage of assets under its management.

Where is Optima Capital Management located?

Optima Capital Management's principal office is in Tempe, AZ, according to its Form ADV; the May 2026 filing also lists 1 other office (Schedule D, Section 1.F).

Is Optima Capital Management registered with the SEC or a state?

Optima Capital Management is an SEC-registered investment advisory firm, registered since 2025. Status as filed: Approved. CRD 306036.

How much does Optima Capital Management manage?

Optima Capital Management reports $150,319,761 in regulatory assets under management in its Form ADV filing dated April 22, 2026 (100% discretionary).

How have Optima Capital Management's assets and staff changed since 2025?

In the Form ADV data for Optima Capital Management: Regulatory assets under management: $116,525,671 in the October 2025 data and $150,319,761 in the October 2026 data, up 29%. Total employees: 4 in October 2025 and 4 in October 2026. Assets under management move with markets as well as with clients coming and going.

What types of clients does Optima Capital Management serve?

By number of clients on Form ADV Item 5.D: individuals (other than high net worth individuals) (179); high net worth individuals (36).

Which custodians does Optima Capital Management use?

Optima Capital Management's most recent Form ADV filing (Schedule D, Section 5.K(3)) lists Charles Schwab & Co., Inc. and The Standard as custodians holding 10% or more of its separately managed account assets.

Does Optima Capital Management report any disciplinary disclosures?

Reports 1 disclosure item on Form ADV Item 11: yes answers to 11.D(5) (another regulator's denial, suspension, or revocation of a registration or license, 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/306036

What changed in Optima Capital Management's recent Form ADV filings?

In the February 2026 filing data: Regulatory assets under management went from $116,525,671 to $150,284,801 (+29%). Registered or notice-filed in NY.

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

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 April 22, 2026) for its fees and any account minimum, on the SEC's IAPD site.

Regulatory assets under management

Item 5.F
$150,319,761

$150,319,761 as of October 2026, filing dated April 22, 2026.

Discretionary: $150,319,761.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 179 Assets $59,886,813 (40%)
High net worth individuals
Clients 36 Assets $70,350,973 (47%)
Banking or thrift institutions
Clients 0 Assets $0 (0%)
Investment companies
Clients 0 Assets $0 (0%)
Business development companies
Clients 0 Assets $0 (0%)
Pooled investment vehicles (other than investment companies and business development companies)
Clients 0 Assets $0 (0%)
Pension and profit sharing plans (but not the plan participants or government pension plans)
Clients Fewer than 5 Assets $20,081,975 (13%)
Charitable organizations
Clients 0 Assets $0 (0%)
State or municipal government entities (including government pension plans)
Clients 0 Assets $0 (0%)
Other investment advisers
Clients 0 Assets $0 (0%)
Insurance companies
Clients 0 Assets $0 (0%)
Sovereign wealth funds and foreign official institutions
Clients 0 Assets $0 (0%)
Corporations or other businesses not listed above
Clients 0 Assets $0 (0%)
Other
Clients 0 Assets $0 (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 businesses (other than small businesses) or institutional clients
  • Pension consulting services
  • Selection of other advisers (including private fund managers)
  • Educational seminars/workshops

Registration and firm details

Items 1, 2, 5
Legal name
Optima Capital Management LLC
Registration
SEC-registered investment adviser. Status as filed: Approved.
Registered since
2025 (1 year)
Employees
Total: 4. Performing investment advisory functions: 4.
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)
1 other office, as of the May 2026 filing
Scottsdale, AZ
States registered or notice-filed
22 states or jurisdictions
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SEC-registered investment advisers are examined by the SEC. SEC, state, and exempt registration

Disclosures

Item 11

1 Reports 1 disclosure item on Form ADV Item 11. View on IAPD.

Questions answered yes on this filing

Regulatory matters Items 11.C to 11.G

  • 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?

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
$117M 2025 $150M 2026
Data periodAssets under managementEmployeesFiling dated
October 2026$150,319,7614April 22, 2026
October 2025$116,525,6714July 16, 2025

Regulatory assets under management: $116,525,671 in the October 2025 data and $150,319,761 in the October 2026 data, up 29%.

Total employees: 4 in October 2025 and 4 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. February 2026
    • Regulatory assets under management went from $116,525,671 to $150,284,801 (+29%).
    • Registered or notice-filed in NY.
  2. December 2025
    • Registered or notice-filed in OK.

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
optimacapitalmgt.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. Optima Capital Management (CRD 306036): Form ADV filing data as of October 2026.
https://advisorcensus.com/firm/optima-capital-management-tempe-az-306036