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List of registered investment advisers by state (SEC Form ADV)

By Keencrest · 2026-11-01

The SEC publishes a free monthly file of every registered investment adviser (RIA) and a second file of exempt reporting advisers, which includes most venture capital and private equity managers. This page says where to get them, what is in them and what is not, and how to get from firm names to a contact list.

Where the data is

Both files are on the SEC's Form ADV data page at sec.gov (search "Information About Registered Investment Advisers and Exempt Reporting Advisers"). They are US government data in the public domain. The September 2026 registered-adviser file holds 17,210 firms.

Registered advisers by main-office state (Sept 2026 file)

StateRegistered advisers
New York2,591
California1,873
Florida1,090
Texas1,081
Illinois684
Massachusetts627
Pennsylvania564
Connecticut507
Ohio403
New Jersey392
Colorado359

Counts are firms whose main office is in the state; about 1,400 rows carry no state because the main office is abroad. Smaller states and territories are in the file.

What the file contains

Firm and legal name, CRD and SEC numbers, main-office address and phone, website, assets under management band, employee count, and flags for the kinds of private funds the firm advises. It does not contain email addresses, and it names no contact person.

From the file to a contact list

  1. Filter the file to your state and take the Website column.
  2. Run those sites through Website Contact Details Scraper; the column bestEmail gives the address published on each site. Social-network-only websites (about a third of firms) return nothing.
  3. Expect roughly 4 firms in 10 to return a role address (info@ and similar); chains and large firms often publish a form only.

Ready-made version

We ran this for the largest US advisers and sell the result: state lists, an AUM band list, a national list and a US venture capital and private equity directory, each with a free 25-row sample. See Adviser lists by state. Source: SEC Form ADV data; Keencrest is not affiliated with or endorsed by the SEC.

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