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

RIAs in South Carolina

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

South Carolina is home to 89 wealth-focused RIAs managing $903B, 27th of 51 states and DC. The largest is Apollon Wealth Management, LLC in Mount Pleasant, with $12B.

Wealth-focused RIAs
89
27th of 51
Their assets
$903B
11th of 51
$1B+ firms
14
Median $317M
All SEC RIAs
112
48,844 employees

Largest independent wealth managers in South Carolina

Largest independent wealth managers headquartered in South Carolina
#FirmHeadquartersRegulatory AUMIndividual clientsEmployees
1Apollon Wealth Management, LLCSEC recordMount Pleasant$12B8,310199
2Permcap Investment OfficeSEC recordCharleston$4.0B3917
3Foster VictorSEC recordGreenville$2.6B1,63842
4The Fiduciary AllianceSEC recordGreenville$2.5B8,74476
5Abacus Planning Group, Inc.SEC recordColumbia$2.2B30730
6Colonial Trust Advisors, Inc.SEC recordSpartanburg$1.9B89528
7Greenwood Capital Associates, LLCSEC recordGreenwood$1.8B66021
8Anchor Investment ManagementSEC recordColumbia$1.5B76317
9Apollon Financial, LLCSEC recordMount Pleasant$1.4B1,25629
10Verity Investment PartnersSEC recordBeaufort$1.4B45916
11Curran Financial Partners, LLCSEC recordDaniel Island$749M1,31430
12Discipline Wealth Solutions, Inc.SEC recordGreenville$747M1,91918
13BNA WealthSEC recordRock Hill$620M5348
14Hobbs Group Advisors LLCSEC recordColumbia$584M3628
15Burkett Financial Services, LLCSEC recordRock Hill$573M4767

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 South Carolina?

112 SEC-registered investment advisers have their main office in South Carolina, and 89 of them are wealth-focused, managing at least half of their assets for individuals and high-net-worth clients. That ranks South Carolina 27th 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 South Carolina?

Apollon Wealth Management, LLC, based in Mount Pleasant, is the largest independent wealth manager headquartered in South Carolina, with $12B in regulatory assets under management and 8,310 individual clients on its latest Form ADV.

How much do South Carolina RIAs manage?

Wealth-focused RIAs based in South Carolina report $903B in regulatory assets under management, 11th among the states. 14 of them manage $1 billion or more; the median manages $317M.

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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