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Permcap Investment Office

Charleston, SCSEC-registered investment adviserCRD 157476

Filed as PERMCAP INVESTMENT OFFICE · Legal name Permanens Capital L.P.

Permcap Investment Office is an SEC-registered investment advisory firm in Charleston, SC, registered since 2011, reporting $1 billion to $5 billion in regulatory assets under management in its Form ADV filing dated September 11, 2026.

15 years
registered since 2011
$4,017,549,299
assets under management
3 arrangements
Percentage of assets, Fixed fees and more
2
disclosure items (Item 11)

Quick answers

From the filing

How is Permcap Investment Office compensated?

On its Form ADV (Item 5.E, October 2026), Permcap Investment Office reports these compensation arrangements: a percentage of assets under its management; fixed fees (other than subscription fees); performance-based fees.

What does Permcap Investment Office's brochure say about its fees?

Its Form ADV Part 2A brochure dated August 7, 2026 states: Asset-based fee: 0.5% to 1% a year (a range, as the brochure states it). Fees can differ by service and may be negotiable; the brochure is the complete statement.

Where is Permcap Investment Office located?

Permcap Investment Office's principal office is in Charleston, SC, according to its Form ADV; the October 2026 filing also lists 2 other offices (Schedule D, Section 1.F).

Is Permcap Investment Office registered with the SEC or a state?

Permcap Investment Office is an SEC-registered investment advisory firm, registered since 2011. Status as filed: Approved. CRD 157476.

How much does Permcap Investment Office manage?

Permcap Investment Office reports $4,017,549,299 in regulatory assets under management in its Form ADV filing dated September 11, 2026 (45% discretionary).

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

In the Form ADV data for Permcap Investment Office: Regulatory assets under management: $3,726,101,932 in the October 2021 data and $4,017,549,299 in the October 2026 data, up 8%. Total employees: 15 in October 2021 and 17 in October 2026. Assets under management move with markets as well as with clients coming and going.

What types of clients does Permcap Investment Office serve?

By number of clients on Form ADV Item 5.D: high net worth individuals (39); pooled investment vehicles (other than investment companies and business development companies) (11); charitable organizations (9).

Which custodians does Permcap Investment Office use?

Permcap Investment Office's most recent Form ADV filing (Schedule D, Section 5.K(3)) lists Charles Schwab & Co., Inc. and Pershing LLC as custodians holding 10% or more of its separately managed account assets.

Does Permcap Investment Office report any disciplinary disclosures?

Reports 2 disclosure items on Form ADV Item 11: yes answers to 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/157476

What changed in Permcap Investment Office's recent Form ADV filings?

In the September 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
  • Fixed fees (other than subscription fees)
  • 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

Asset-based fee: 0.5% to 1% a year (a range, as the brochure states it)

The brochure's wording
Charges typically range between 0.50% and 1.00% of the assets being managed by the Advisor in a particular Separate Account.

As stated in the firm's Form ADV Part 2A brochure dated August 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

Regulatory assets under management

Item 5.F
$4,017,549,299

$4,017,549,299 as of October 2026, filing dated September 11, 2026.

Discretionary: $1,797,974,370.Non-discretionary: $2,219,574,929.

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 0 Assets $0 (0%)
High net worth individuals
Clients 39 Assets $2,889,395,412 (72%)
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 11 Assets $27,598,977 (1%)
Pension and profit sharing plans (but not the plan participants or government pension plans)
Clients 2 Assets $22,413,668 (1%)
Charitable organizations
Clients 9 Assets $632,719,313 (16%)
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 4 Assets $445,421,929 (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
  • Financial planning services
  • Portfolio management for individuals and/or small businesses
  • 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)
  • Other

Registration and firm details

Items 1, 2, 5
Legal name
Permanens Capital L.P.
Also doing business as
PERMCAP INVESTMENT OFFICE
Registration
SEC-registered investment adviser. Status as filed: Approved.
Registered since
2011 (15 years)
Employees
Total: 17. Performing investment advisory functions: 6.
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)
2 other offices, as of the October 2026 filing
New York, NYSolana Beach, CA
States registered or notice-filed
8 states or jurisdictions
CACODENHNYSCTXVA

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

Disclosures

Item 11

2 Reports 2 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.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
$3.73B 2021 $4.47B 2022 $4.19B 2023 $4.46B 2024 $4.93B 2025 $4.02B 2026
Data periodAssets under managementEmployeesFiling dated
October 2026$4,017,549,29917September 11, 2026
October 2025$4,932,477,41416July 31, 2025
October 2024$4,462,882,44216March 22, 2024
October 2023$4,193,707,52116July 7, 2023
October 2022$4,470,172,01015March 29, 2022
October 2021$3,726,101,93215July 30, 2021

Regulatory assets under management: $3,726,101,932 in the October 2021 data and $4,017,549,299 in the October 2026 data, up 8%.

Total employees: 15 in October 2021 and 17 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. September 2026
    • Updated its list of owners and control persons (Schedule A).
  2. April 2026
    • Regulatory assets under management went from $4,932,477,414 to $4,017,549,299 (-19%).
    • Registered or notice-filed in CA.
    • Updated its list of owners and control persons (Schedule A).
  3. January 2026
    • 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.

Websites listed on Form ADV

Item 1.I
permcap.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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