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Wellington Alternative Investments

Boston, MASEC-registered investment adviserCRD 226715

Filed as WELLINGTON ALTERNATIVE INVESTMENTS · Legal name Wellington Alternative Investments LLC

Wellington Alternative Investments is an SEC-registered investment advisory firm in Boston, MA, registered since 2016, reporting over $5 billion in regulatory assets under management in its Form ADV filing dated September 29, 2026.

10 years
registered since 2016
$92,174,562,107
assets under management
2 arrangements
Percentage of assets, Performance-based
1
disclosure items (Item 11)

Quick answers

From the filing

How is Wellington Alternative Investments compensated?

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

Where is Wellington Alternative Investments located?

Wellington Alternative Investments' principal office is in Boston, MA, according to its Form ADV.

Is Wellington Alternative Investments registered with the SEC or a state?

Wellington Alternative Investments is an SEC-registered investment advisory firm, registered since 2016. Status as filed: Approved. CRD 226715.

How much does Wellington Alternative Investments manage?

Wellington Alternative Investments reports $92,174,562,107 in regulatory assets under management in its Form ADV filing dated September 29, 2026 (100% discretionary).

How have Wellington Alternative Investments' assets and staff changed since 2021?

In the Form ADV data for Wellington Alternative Investments: Regulatory assets under management: $45,196,295,720 in the October 2021 data and $92,174,562,107 in the October 2026 data, up 104%. Total employees: 21 in October 2021 and 2 in October 2026. Assets under management move with markets as well as with clients coming and going.

What types of clients does Wellington Alternative Investments serve?

By number of clients on Form ADV Item 5.D: pooled investment vehicles (other than investment companies and business development companies) (124).

Does Wellington Alternative Investments 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/226715

What changed in Wellington Alternative Investments' recent Form ADV filings?

In the April 2026 filing data: Regulatory assets under management went from $58,678,591,935 to $92,174,562,107 (+57%).

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

See the firm's brochure (dated March 31, 2026) for its fees and any account minimum, on the SEC's IAPD site.

Regulatory assets under management

Item 5.F
$92,174,562,107

$92,174,562,107 as of October 2026, filing dated September 29, 2026.

Discretionary: $92,174,562,107.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 0 Assets $0 (0%)
High net worth individuals
Clients 0 Assets $0 (0%)
Banking or thrift institutions
Clients 0 Assets $0 (0%)
Investment companies
Clients 0 Assets $0 (0%)
Business development companies
Clients 0 Assets $0 (0%)
Pooled investment vehicles (other than investment companies and business development companies)
Clients 124 Assets $92,174,562,107 (100%)
Pension and profit sharing plans (but not the plan participants or government pension plans)
Clients 0 Assets $0 (0%)
Charitable organizations
Clients 0 Assets $0 (0%)
State or municipal government entities (including government pension plans)
Clients 0 Assets $0 (0%)
Other investment advisers
Clients 0 Assets $0 (0%)
Insurance companies
Clients 0 Assets $0 (0%)
Sovereign wealth funds and foreign official institutions
Clients 0 Assets $0 (0%)
Corporations or other businesses not listed above
Clients 0 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 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
Legal name
Wellington Alternative Investments LLC
Registration
SEC-registered investment adviser. Status as filed: Approved.
Registered since
2016 (10 years)
Employees
Total: 2. Performing investment advisory functions: 1.
Wrap fee program participation
No.
States registered or notice-filed
2 states or jurisdictions
DEMA

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
$45.2B 2021 $43B 2022 $43.4B 2023 $50.6B 2024 $58.7B 2025 $92.2B 2026
Data periodAssets under managementEmployeesFiling dated
October 2026$92,174,562,1072September 29, 2026
October 2025$58,678,591,9352April 23, 2025
October 2024$50,597,889,1212July 29, 2024
October 2023$43,390,157,5810October 3, 2023
October 2022$43,027,031,0610May 18, 2022
October 2021$45,196,295,72021March 31, 2021

Regulatory assets under management: $45,196,295,720 in the October 2021 data and $92,174,562,107 in the October 2026 data, up 104%.

Total employees: 21 in October 2021 and 2 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
    • Regulatory assets under management went from $58,678,591,935 to $92,174,562,107 (+57%).

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
wellington.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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