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Trace Wealth Advisors

Los Angeles, CASEC-registered investment adviserCRD 317542

Filed as TRACE WEALTH ADVISORS · Legal name Trace Wealth Advisors, LLC

Trace Wealth Advisors is an SEC-registered investment advisory firm in Los Angeles, CA, registered since 2022, reporting $100 million to $500 million in regulatory assets under management in its Form ADV filing dated March 27, 2026.

4 years
registered since 2022
$295,002,091
assets under management
2 arrangements
Percentage of assets, Fixed fees
None
disclosure items (Item 11)

Quick answers

From the filing

How is Trace Wealth Advisors compensated?

On its Form ADV (Item 5.E, October 2026), Trace Wealth Advisors reports these compensation arrangements: a percentage of assets under its management; fixed fees (other than subscription fees).

Where is Trace Wealth Advisors located?

Trace Wealth Advisors' principal office is in Los Angeles, CA, according to its Form ADV.

Is Trace Wealth Advisors registered with the SEC or a state?

Trace Wealth Advisors is an SEC-registered investment advisory firm, registered since 2022. Status as filed: Approved. CRD 317542.

How much does Trace Wealth Advisors manage?

Trace Wealth Advisors reports $295,002,091 in regulatory assets under management in its Form ADV filing dated March 27, 2026 (100% discretionary).

How have Trace Wealth Advisors' assets and staff changed since 2022?

In the Form ADV data for Trace Wealth Advisors: Regulatory assets under management: $221,603,867 in the October 2022 data and $295,002,091 in the October 2026 data, up 33%. Total employees: 3 in October 2022 and 1 in October 2026. Assets under management move with markets as well as with clients coming and going.

What types of clients does Trace Wealth Advisors serve?

By number of clients on Form ADV Item 5.D: high net worth individuals (53); individuals (other than high net worth individuals) (9); charitable organizations (2).

Which custodians does Trace Wealth Advisors use?

Trace Wealth Advisors' most recent Form ADV filing (Schedule D, Section 5.K(3)) lists LPL Financial LLC and Northern Trust Securities, Inc. as custodians holding 10% or more of its separately managed account assets.

Does Trace Wealth Advisors report any disciplinary disclosures?

Reports no disclosure items on Form ADV Item 11. The detail of any item is on the firm's SEC record: https://adviserinfo.sec.gov/firm/summary/317542

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)

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 March 27, 2026) for its fees and any account minimum, on the SEC's IAPD site.

Regulatory assets under management

Item 5.F
$295,002,091

$295,002,091 as of October 2026, filing dated March 27, 2026.

Discretionary: $295,002,091.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 9 Assets $1,181,572 (0%)
High net worth individuals
Clients 53 Assets $206,828,558 (70%)
Charitable organizations
Clients 2 Assets $37,887,935 (13%)
Corporations or other businesses not listed above
Clients 2 Assets $49,104,026 (17%)

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
  • Other

Registration and firm details

Items 1, 2, 5
Legal name
Trace Wealth Advisors, LLC
Registration
SEC-registered investment adviser. Status as filed: Approved.
Registered since
2022 (4 years)
Employees
Total: 1. Performing investment advisory functions: 1.
Wrap fee program participation
Yes.
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.

States registered or notice-filed
3 states or jurisdictions
AZCANV

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

Disclosures

Item 11

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

Assets and staff over time

Items 5.A, 5.F
$222M 2022 $225M 2023 $248M 2024 $273M 2025 $295M 2026
Data periodAssets under managementEmployeesFiling dated
October 2026$295,002,0911March 27, 2026
October 2025$273,316,7521March 27, 2025
October 2024$248,190,3921March 14, 2024
October 2023$225,014,2581March 28, 2023
October 2022$221,603,8673September 26, 2022

Regulatory assets under management: $221,603,867 in the October 2022 data and $295,002,091 in the October 2026 data, up 33%.

Total employees: 3 in October 2022 and 1 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

No changes to these filed facts in the last 12 months of filing data.

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
tracewa.comtracewealthadvisors.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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