Valmark Advisers, Inc.

• 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

See the firm's brochure (dated June 1, 2026) for its fees and any account minimum, on the SEC's IAPD site.

$10,166,311,019 as of October 2026, filing dated June 1, 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.

• Financial planning services
• Portfolio management for individuals and/or small businesses
• Portfolio management for investment companies (and business development companies)
• Portfolio management for businesses (other than small businesses) or institutional clients
• Pension consulting services
• Selection of other advisers (including private fund managers)
• Other

Registration

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

Registered since

1998 (28 years)

Employees

Total: 280. Performing investment advisory functions: 280.

Wrap fee program participation

Yes.

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

Pershing LLCSchwab Advisor Services

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)

24 other offices, as of the July 2026 filing

Akron, OHAshburn, VABoca Raton, FLCanfield, OHCincinnati, OHElkhorn, NEFairlawn, OHFlowood, MSFort Lauderdale, FLGloucester, MAGrand Rapids, MIIrvine, CAMason, MIMenomonee Falls, WIMentor, OHMt. Vernon, NENewark, OHOpelika, ALPittsford, NYPlainville, MASt. Cloud, MNTustin, CAWestlake, OHWorthington, OH

States registered or notice-filed

52 states or jurisdictions

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

3 Reports 3 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?

Civil court matters Item 11.H

• 11.H(1)(b) Has a domestic or foreign court ever found that the firm or an advisory affiliate was involved in a violation of investment-related statutes or regulations?

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

Regulatory assets under management: $6,317,794,837 in the October 2021 data and $10,166,311,019 in the October 2026 data, up 61%.

Total employees: 227 in October 2021 and 280 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. March 2026
   • Regulatory assets under management went from $8,379,181,235 to $10,166,311,019 (+21%).
   • Employees performing advisory functions went from 275 to 280.
   • Changed its office addresses in Akron, OH.
   • Changed its office addresses in Cincinnati, OH.
   • Changed its office addresses in Grand Rapids, MI.
   • Changed its office addresses in Irvine, CA.
   • Changed its office addresses in Menomonee Falls, WI.
   • Added an office in Worthington, OH.
   • No longer lists an office in Fort Mitchell, KY.

Compared month to month from the SEC's monthly adviser data and the state compilation feed. Owners and control persons are summarized, never named.