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Tessara Wealth
Filed as TESSARA WEALTH · Legal name Ballast Point Financial Planning, LLC
Tessara Wealth is an SEC-registered investment advisory firm in Burlingame, CA, registered since 2025, reporting $100 million to $500 million in regulatory assets under management in its Form ADV filing dated May 28, 2026.
Quick answers
From the filingHow is Tessara Wealth compensated?
On its Form ADV (Item 5.E, October 2026), Tessara Wealth reports these compensation arrangements: a percentage of assets under its management; hourly charges; fixed fees (other than subscription fees).
Where is Tessara Wealth located?
Tessara Wealth's principal office is in Burlingame, CA, according to its Form ADV.
Is Tessara Wealth registered with the SEC or a state?
Tessara Wealth is an SEC-registered investment advisory firm, registered since 2025. Status as filed: Approved. CRD 283295.
How much does Tessara Wealth manage?
Tessara Wealth reports $162,385,487 in regulatory assets under management in its Form ADV filing dated May 28, 2026 (28% discretionary).
How have Tessara Wealth's assets and staff changed since 2025?
In the Form ADV data for Tessara Wealth: Regulatory assets under management: $130,333,588 in the October 2025 data and $162,385,487 in the October 2026 data, up 25%. Total employees: 4 in October 2025 and 6 in October 2026. Assets under management move with markets as well as with clients coming and going.
What types of clients does Tessara Wealth serve?
By number of clients on Form ADV Item 5.D: individuals (other than high net worth individuals) (86); high net worth individuals (57).
Which custodians does Tessara Wealth use?
Tessara Wealth's most recent Form ADV filing (Schedule D, Section 5.K(3)) lists Betterment Securities and Charles Schwab & Co., Inc. as custodians holding 10% or more of its separately managed account assets.
Does Tessara Wealth 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/283295
What changed in Tessara Wealth's recent Form ADV filings?
In the June 2026 filing data: Registered or notice-filed in OH.
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
- Hourly charges
- Fixed fees (other than subscription 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 2ASee the firm's brochure (dated January 30, 2026) for its fees and any account minimum, on the SEC's IAPD site.
Regulatory assets under management
Item 5.F$162,385,487 as of October 2026, filing dated May 28, 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
Who the firm serves
Item 5.DA 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
- Selection of other advisers (including private fund managers)
- Educational seminars/workshops
Registration and firm details
Items 1, 2, 5- Legal name
- Ballast Point Financial Planning, LLC
- Registration
- SEC-registered investment adviser. Status as filed: Approved.
- Registered since
- 2025 (1 year)
- Employees
- Total: 6. Performing investment advisory functions: 4.
- Wrap fee program participation
- No.
- Custodians (Schedule D, Section 5.K(3))
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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.
- States registered or notice-filed
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7 states or jurisdictions
SEC-registered investment advisers are examined by the SEC. SEC, state, and exempt registration
Disclosures
Item 112 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| Data period | Assets under management | Employees | Filing dated |
|---|---|---|---|
| October 2026 | $162,385,487 | 6 | May 28, 2026 |
| October 2025 | $130,333,588 | 4 | June 3, 2025 |
Regulatory assets under management: $130,333,588 in the October 2025 data and $162,385,487 in the October 2026 data, up 25%.
Total employees: 4 in October 2025 and 6 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- June 2026
- Registered or notice-filed in OH.
- February 2026
- Regulatory assets under management went from $130,333,588 to $162,385,487 (+25%).
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.ISource: 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. Tessara Wealth (CRD 283295): Form ADV filing data as of October 2026. https://advisorcensus.com/firm/tessara-wealth-burlingame-ca-283295