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RIAs by state · SEC data as of October 1, 2026

RIAs in New York

The SEC-registered investment advisers based in New York, what they manage, and the largest independent wealth managers.

New York is home to 717 wealth-focused RIAs managing $6.74T, 2nd of 51 states and DC. The largest is Cerity Partners LLC in New York, with $162B.

Wealth-focused RIAs
717
2nd of 51
Their assets
$6.74T
1st of 51
$1B+ firms
150
Median $217M
All SEC RIAs
2,552
286,175 employees

Largest independent wealth managers in New York

Largest independent wealth managers headquartered in New York
#FirmHeadquartersRegulatory AUMIndividual clientsEmployees
1Cerity Partners LLCSEC recordNew York$162B24,9451,529
2Rockefeller Capital ManagementSEC recordNew York$37B5,931602
3BBR Partners, LLCSEC recordNew York$36B203175
4Wealthspire AdvisorsSEC recordNew York$34B9,736397
5Goldman Sachs Wealth Services, L.P.SEC recordCohoes$32B115,3501,923
6Tiedemann Advisors, LLCSEC recordNew York$31B407182
7Silvercrest Asset Management Group LLCSEC recordNew York$28B1,081175
8Arax Advisory PartnersSEC recordNew York$27B15,155361
9Summit Trail Advisors, LLCSEC recordNew York$20B63994
10Citizens Private WealthSEC recordTarrytown$17B2,465214
11Evercore Wealth Management, LLCSEC recordNew York$16B73197
12Williams Jones Wealth Management, LLCSEC recordNew York$12B1,51752
13Tocqueville Asset Management LPSEC recordNew York$10B1,15973
14Ritholtz Wealth ManagementSEC recordNew York$9.4B4,13983
15Joel Isaacson & Co., LLCSEC recordNew York$9.3B1,26752

Ranked by regulatory assets under management on each firm’s latest Form ADV. Excludes broker-dealers’ advisory arms and managed-account platforms. Nationally: the 100 largest RIAs.

Questions

How many RIAs are there in New York?

2,552 SEC-registered investment advisers have their main office in New York, and 717 of them are wealth-focused, managing at least half of their assets for individuals and high-net-worth clients. That ranks New York 2nd of 51 states and DC, according to Financial ADVSR’s count of SEC data as of October 1, 2026.

What is the largest RIA in New York?

Cerity Partners LLC, based in New York, is the largest independent wealth manager headquartered in New York, with $162B in regulatory assets under management and 24,945 individual clients on its latest Form ADV.

How much do New York RIAs manage?

Wealth-focused RIAs based in New York report $6.74T in regulatory assets under management, 1st among the states. 150 of them manage $1 billion or more; the median manages $217M.

How we built this

The SEC publishes a list of every registered investment adviser, drawn from each firm’s Form ADV. We used the list current through October 1, 2026, kept the 16,943 advisers the SEC shows as approved, and placed each in the state of its main office; 14,641 are based in the United States. Regulatory assets under management come from Item 5.F, client counts from Item 5.D.

Wealth-focused RIAs manage at least half of their assets for individuals and high-net-worth clients, the same test as our RIA Custody Tracker; there are 8,130 in the US. Rankings and each state’s largest-firms list show independent wealth managers only: wealth-focused firms that offer financial planning, are not themselves broker-dealers, and hold less than half their assets in wrap programs they sponsor or manage. That leaves out wirehouse and broker-dealer advisory arms and managed-account platforms, which still count in each state’s totals.

What it doesn’t show

  • State-registered advisers, most of which manage less than $100 million, register with their state regulator and aren’t in SEC data.
  • A firm counts only in its main office state, though many have offices in several.
  • Figures are as of each adviser’s latest annual Form ADV update, usually its December 31 fiscal year-end, so they lag recent deals.
  • Firms that file under more than one registration (an RIA and a separate institutional arm, for example) appear as separate advisers.

The data is free to use with credit to Financial ADVSR. Questions or corrections: contact the editors.

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