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Variant Perception
Filed as VARIANT PERCEPTION · Legal name Variant Perception, LLC
Variant Perception is an SEC-registered investment advisory firm in Charlotte, NC, registered since 2025, reporting $25 million to $100 million in regulatory assets under management in its Form ADV filing dated March 31, 2026.
Quick answers
From the filingHow is Variant Perception compensated?
On its Form ADV (Item 5.E, October 2026), Variant Perception reports these compensation arrangements: a percentage of assets under its management; subscription fees (for a newsletter or periodical); other.
Where is Variant Perception located?
Variant Perception's principal office is in Charlotte, NC, according to its Form ADV; the April 2026 filing also lists 1 other office (Schedule D, Section 1.F).
Is Variant Perception registered with the SEC or a state?
Variant Perception is an SEC-registered investment advisory firm, registered since 2025. Status as filed: Approved. CRD 334510.
How much does Variant Perception manage?
Variant Perception reports $31,890,778 in regulatory assets under management in its Form ADV filing dated March 31, 2026 (100% discretionary).
What types of clients does Variant Perception serve?
By number of clients on Form ADV Item 5.D: investment companies (1).
Does Variant Perception report any disciplinary disclosures?
Reports 3 disclosure items on Form ADV Item 11: yes answers to 11.C(2) (SEC or CFTC finding of a violation), 11.C(5) (SEC or CFTC civil money penalty or cease-and-desist order), and 11.E(2) (self-regulatory organization's finding of a rule violation). 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/334510
Does Variant Perception state an account minimum?
Its Form ADV Part 2A brochure dated March 31, 2026 says: "There is no account minimum for Variant Perception’s research services."
What changed in Variant Perception's recent Form ADV filings?
In the April 2026 filing data: Employees performing advisory functions went from 12 to 1. Added an office in London. 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
- Subscription fees (for a newsletter or periodical)
- 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
Fees and minimums
Form ADV Part 2AAccount minimum: None
The brochure's wording
There is no account minimum for Variant Perception’s research services.
As stated in the firm's Form ADV Part 2A brochure dated March 31, 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$31,890,778 as of October 2026, filing dated March 31, 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- Portfolio management for investment companies (and business development companies)
- Publication of periodicals or newsletters
Registration and firm details
Items 1, 2, 5- Legal name
- Variant Perception, LLC
- Registration
- SEC-registered investment adviser. Status as filed: Approved.
- Registered since
- 2025 (0 years)
- Employees
- Total: 1. Performing investment advisory functions: 1.
- Wrap fee program participation
- No.
- Other offices (Schedule D, Section 1.F)
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1 other office, as of the April 2026 filing
- States registered or notice-filed
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1 state or jurisdiction
SEC-registered investment advisers are examined by the SEC. SEC, state, and exempt registration
Disclosures
Item 113 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.C(2) Has the SEC or the CFTC ever found that the firm or an advisory affiliate was involved in a violation of SEC or CFTC regulations or statutes?
- 11.C(5) Has the SEC or the CFTC ever imposed a civil money penalty on the firm or an advisory affiliate, or ordered the firm or an advisory affiliate to cease and desist from an activity?
- 11.E(2) Has a self-regulatory organization or a commodities exchange ever found that the firm or an advisory affiliate was involved in a violation of its rules, other than a minor rule violation under a plan the SEC approved?
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
Changes in the filing
Last 12 months- April 2026
- Employees performing advisory functions went from 12 to 1.
- Added an office in London.
- Updated its list of owners and control persons (Schedule A).
- December 2025
- Newly registered with the SEC.
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."
Cite this page
AdvisorCensus. Variant Perception (CRD 334510): Form ADV filing data as of October 2026. https://advisorcensus.com/firm/variant-perception-charlotte-nc-334510