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Wasatch Advisors LP

Salt Lake City, UTSEC-registered investment adviserCRD 106081

Filed as WASATCH ADVISORS LP

Wasatch Advisors LP is an SEC-registered investment advisory firm in Salt Lake City, UT, registered since 1975, reporting over $5 billion in regulatory assets under management in its Form ADV filing dated March 16, 2026.

50 years
registered since 1975
$23,346,360,707
assets under management
2 arrangements
Percentage of assets, Performance-based
1
disclosure items (Item 11)

Quick answers

From the filing

How is Wasatch Advisors LP compensated?

On its Form ADV (Item 5.E, October 2026), Wasatch Advisors LP reports these compensation arrangements: a percentage of assets under its management; performance-based fees.

Where is Wasatch Advisors LP located?

Wasatch Advisors LP's principal office is in Salt Lake City, UT, according to its Form ADV.

Is Wasatch Advisors LP registered with the SEC or a state?

Wasatch Advisors LP is an SEC-registered investment advisory firm, registered since 1975. Status as filed: Approved. CRD 106081.

How much does Wasatch Advisors LP manage?

Wasatch Advisors LP reports $23,346,360,707 in regulatory assets under management in its Form ADV filing dated March 16, 2026 (100% discretionary).

How have Wasatch Advisors LP's assets and staff changed since 2021?

In the Form ADV data for Wasatch Advisors LP: Regulatory assets under management: $32,248,952,977 in the October 2021 data and $23,346,360,707 in the October 2026 data, down 28%. Total employees: 86 in October 2021 and 96 in October 2026. Assets under management move with markets as well as with clients coming and going.

What types of clients does Wasatch Advisors LP serve?

By number of clients on Form ADV Item 5.D: high net worth individuals (51); charitable organizations (50); corporations or other businesses not listed above (39).

Which custodians does Wasatch Advisors LP use?

Wasatch Advisors LP's most recent Form ADV filing (Schedule D, Section 5.K(3)) lists BNY Mellon Capital Markets, LLC, Northern Trust Securities, Inc. and State Street Global Markets, LLC as custodians holding 10% or more of its separately managed account assets.

Does Wasatch Advisors LP report any disciplinary disclosures?

Reports 1 disclosure item on Form ADV Item 11: yes answers to 11.D(2) (another regulator's finding of a 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/106081

What changed in Wasatch Advisors LP's recent Form ADV filings?

In the April 2026 filing data: Employees performing advisory functions went from 48 to 41. Regulatory assets under management went from $27,916,763,225 to $23,346,360,707 (-16%).

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
  • Performance-based 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 16, 2026) for its fees and any account minimum, on the SEC's IAPD site.

Regulatory assets under management

Item 5.F
$23,346,360,707

$23,346,360,707 as of October 2026, filing dated March 16, 2026.

Discretionary: $23,346,360,707.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 $6,539,222 (0%)
High net worth individuals
Clients 51 Assets $196,438,639 (1%)
Banking or thrift institutions
Clients Fewer than 5 Assets $0 (0%)
Investment companies
Clients 23 Assets $9,215,974,010 (39%)
Business development companies
Clients 0 Assets $0 (0%)
Pooled investment vehicles (other than investment companies and business development companies)
Clients 15 Assets $5,598,638,572 (24%)
Pension and profit sharing plans (but not the plan participants or government pension plans)
Clients 22 Assets $1,041,793,003 (4%)
Charitable organizations
Clients 50 Assets $644,531,960 (3%)
State or municipal government entities (including government pension plans)
Clients 27 Assets $5,543,911,794 (24%)
Other investment advisers
Clients 1 Assets $7,167,371 (0%)
Insurance companies
Clients Fewer than 5 Assets $0 (0%)
Sovereign wealth funds and foreign official institutions
Clients 2 Assets $870,902,536 (4%)
Corporations or other businesses not listed above
Clients 39 Assets $220,463,600 (1%)
Other
Clients Fewer than 5 Assets $0 (0%)

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
  • Portfolio management for individuals and/or small businesses
  • Portfolio management for investment companies (and business development companies)
  • Portfolio management for pooled investment vehicles (other than investment companies)
  • Portfolio management for businesses (other than small businesses) or institutional clients
  • Other

Registration and firm details

Items 1, 2, 5
Also doing business as
WASATCH GLOBAL INVESTORS
Registration
SEC-registered investment adviser. Status as filed: Approved.
Registered since
1975 (50 years)
Employees
Total: 96. Performing investment advisory functions: 41.
Wrap fee program participation
No.
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
51 states or jurisdictions
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SEC-registered investment advisers are examined by the SEC. SEC, state, and exempt registration

Disclosures

Item 11

1 Reports 1 disclosure item 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?

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
$32.2B 2021 $39.5B 2022 $22.4B 2023 $26.7B 2024 $27.9B 2025 $23.3B 2026
Data periodAssets under managementEmployeesFiling dated
October 2026$23,346,360,70796March 16, 2026
October 2025$27,916,763,22596March 13, 2025
October 2024$26,663,066,90790April 24, 2024
October 2023$22,406,537,11690May 5, 2023
October 2022$39,493,239,72686March 18, 2022
October 2021$32,248,952,97786March 26, 2021

Regulatory assets under management: $32,248,952,977 in the October 2021 data and $23,346,360,707 in the October 2026 data, down 28%.

Total employees: 86 in October 2021 and 96 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
  1. April 2026
    • Employees performing advisory functions went from 48 to 41.
    • Regulatory assets under management went from $27,916,763,225 to $23,346,360,707 (-16%).

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
wasatchglobal.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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AdvisorCensus. Wasatch Advisors LP (CRD 106081): Form ADV filing data as of October 2026.
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