Ptma Investment Advisors

• A percentage of assets under your management
• 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

See the firm's brochure (dated March 31, 2026) for its fees and any account minimum, on the SEC's IAPD site.

$104,243,535,249 as of October 2026, filing dated April 30, 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)
• Portfolio management for businesses (other than small businesses) or institutional clients
• Other

Legal name

Public Trust Advisors, LLC

Also doing business as

PT ADVISORS, LLC, PTMA INVESTMENT ADVISORS

Registration

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

Registered since

2011 (14 years)

Employees

Total: 157. Performing investment advisory functions: 81.

Wrap fee program participation

No.

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

BNY MellonU.S. BankUMB Bank

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)

13 other offices, as of the May 2026 filing

Albertville, MNChamblee, GAHopewell Junction, NYLancaster, PALincoln, NEMilwaukee, WINaperville, ILOrlando, FLPleasanton, CARichardson, TXSt Louis, MOSt. Louis Park, MNWest des Moines, IA

States registered or notice-filed

10 states or jurisdictions

CACOFLGALAMINYOHOKTX

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

None Reports no disclosure items on Form ADV Item 11. View on IAPD.

Item 11 asks about criminal, regulatory, and civil events involving the firm and its advisory personnel. The detail of each yes answer is on the IAPD record. Reading a firm's disclosures

Regulatory assets under management: $48,926,451,391 in the October 2021 data and $104,243,535,249 in the October 2026 data, up 113%.

Total employees: 69 in October 2021 and 157 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. May 2026
   • Changed its office addresses in St. Louis Park, MN.
   • Updated its list of owners and control persons (Schedule A).
2. April 2026
   • Regulatory assets under management went from $94,211,094,125 to $104,243,535,249 (+11%).
   • Employees performing advisory functions went from 13 to 81.
   • Added the business name PT Advisors, LLC.
   • Added an office in Albertville, MN.
   • Added an office in Lancaster, PA.
   • Added an office in Lincoln, NE.
   • Added an office in Milwaukee, WI.
   • Added an office in St Louis, MO.
   • Added an office in St. Louis Park, MN.
   • Added an office in West des Moines, IA.
   • Updated its list of owners and control persons (Schedule A).
3. February 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.