Wealth Management Firms (RIAs) in Chicago
220 wealth management firms are on this list. Of those that report regulatory assets on Form ADV, Hightower Advisors is the largest: $198.6 billion through Hightower Advisors, LLC (filed ).
Cibc Private Wealth Advisors follows with $67.8 billion. The 213 advisers counted report $533.4 billion together; the ten largest hold 75% of it, and half report less than $316 million.
Updated . Rechecked quarterly; next check . Figures read , as filed to .
- $25BN and over62%3 firms
- $10BN to $25BN5%2 firms
- $5BN to $10BN11%8 firms
- $1BN to $5BN11%29 firms
- $500MM to $1BN5%37 firms
- Under $500MM6%134 firms
Latest Form ADV of each, filed Dec 2025 to Oct 2026. Read ; sources at the end of the page.
- Wealth management firms listedList of October 2026; 211 are wealth managers and 9 are wealth managers with a broker-dealer
- 220
- Combined assets213 counted; as filed to Oct 2026
- $533.4BN
- Median firmHalf of the 213 report less
- $316MM
- Held by the ten largestOf the $533.4BN combined
- 75%
Hightower Advisors, Cibc Private Wealth Advisors and William Blair & Company lead the Chicago wealth management firms by assets
The twenty largest by regulatory assets on their latest Form ADV. Together they report $443.8BN, 83% of the $533.4BN the 213 counted report.
- 1
Hightower Advisors
Wealth manager, Chicago, IL
$198.6BNRegulatory assets, Sep 2026
79% high net worth, 11% other individuals, 8% businesses
- 2
Cibc Private Wealth Advisors
Wealth manager, Chicago, IL
$67.8BNRegulatory assets, Jun 2026
51% high net worth, 26% businesses, 14% other individuals
- 3
William Blair & Company
Wealth manager with a broker-dealer, Chicago, IL
$64.3BNRegulatory assets, Mar 2026
71% high net worth, 13% businesses, 11% other individuals
- 4
The Mather Group
Wealth manager, Chicago, IL
$13.4BNRegulatory assets, Sep 2026
91% high net worth, 9% other individuals
- 5
Curi Capital
Wealth manager, Chicago, IL
$11.6BNRegulatory assets, Jul 2026
68% high net worth, 10% funds (1940 act), 8% insurers
- 6
IHT Wealth Management
Wealth manager with a broker-dealer, Chicago, IL
$9.8BNRegulatory assets, Mar 2026
59% high net worth, 26% other, 14% other individuals
- 7
Altair Advisers
Wealth manager, Chicago, IL
$9.8BNRegulatory assets, Mar 2026
65% high net worth, 15% funds (1940 act), 12% charities
- 8
Forum Financial Management
Wealth manager, Lombard, IL
$8.7BNRegulatory assets, Sep 2026
65% high net worth, 17% other individuals, 14% other advisers
- 9
JMG Financial Group
Wealth manager, Downers Grove, IL
$7.5BNRegulatory assets, Mar 2026
97% high net worth, 3% other individuals
- 10
Chicago Partners Investment Group
Wealth manager, Chicago, IL
$7.5BNRegulatory assets, Mar 2026
78% high net worth, 16% other individuals, 3% charities
- 11
Vestgen Advisors
Wealth manager, Chicago, IL
$6.7BNRegulatory assets, Sep 2026
51% high net worth, 49% other individuals
- 12
Crescent Grove Advisors
Wealth manager, Lake Forest, IL
$5.5BNRegulatory assets, Mar 2026
93% high net worth, 3% charities, 2% other
- 13
Calamos Wealth Management
Wealth manager, Naperville, IL
$5.5BNRegulatory assets, Jul 2026
82% high net worth, 6% other individuals, 6% businesses
- 14
Chicago Capital
Wealth manager, Chicago, IL
$4.8BNRegulatory assets, Sep 2026
94% high net worth, 3% businesses, 2% other individuals
- 15
Brownson, Rehmus & Foxworth
Wealth manager, Chicago, IL
$4.8BNRegulatory assets, Mar 2026
94% high net worth, 5% charities, 2% businesses
- 16
Highpoint Planning Partners
Wealth manager, Downers Grove, IL
$4.8BNRegulatory assets, Jul 2026
72% high net worth, 26% other individuals
- 17
Performance Wealth
Wealth manager, Hinsdale, IL
$4.1BNRegulatory assets, Jun 2026
75% high net worth, 18% businesses, 4% charities
- 18
Chesley, Taft & Associates
Wealth manager, Chicago, IL
$3.0BNRegulatory assets, Mar 2026
96% high net worth, 3% businesses
- 19
Capstone Financial Advisors
Wealth manager, Downers Grove, IL
$2.9BNRegulatory assets, Mar 2026
90% high net worth, 9% other individuals
- 20
Rothschild Investment
Wealth manager with a broker-dealer, Chicago, IL
$2.8BNRegulatory assets, Mar 2026
84% high net worth, 10% other individuals, 3% businesses
Regulatory assets each adviser reported in its latest Form ADV. Each pin opens the filing behind the figure; the ranking rule and sources are at the end of the page. Read .
One firm holds 37% of the assets
How the 213 firms counted spread by size: most are small, the dollars sit at the top.
One dot per firm counted; 7 firms with a main office outside Chicago, a second row for the same adviser or only fund assets left out. Read .
Assets each reported in its latest filing; shares are of the $533.4BN combined, one row per firm. Read .
37%
of the assets reported sits with one firm, Hightower Advisors. The five largest hold 67%; 171 of 213 report under $1 billion.
- Wealth managers211
- Wealth managers with a broker-dealer9
Kind of each, from its Form ADV (Items 5.G and 6.A), October 2026.
- High net worth73%
- Other individuals13%
- Businesses9%
- Charities2%
- Funds (1940 Act)1%
- Pension plans1%
Client types each adviser reports with its assets, latest filing; sums of filed figures.
Leaders beyond the ranking
Figures the main ranking does not compare: the most individual clients, the most high net worth clients, most private funds.
| Rank | Name | Figure |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hightower Advisors | 62,807Sep 2026 |
| 2 | William Blair & Company | 35,296Mar 2026 |
| 3 | IHT Wealth Management | 25,096Mar 2026 |
| 4 | Vestgen Advisors | 22,790Sep 2026 |
| 5 | Bankers Life Advisory Services | 14,275Mar 2026 |
| 6 | Highpoint Planning Partners | 9,160Jul 2026 |
| 7 | Cibc Private Wealth Advisors | 8,083Jun 2026 |
| 8 | Forum Financial Management | 5,622Sep 2026 |
Counts of clients as filed; a client is an account holder the adviser counts, not a household.
| Rank | Name | Figure |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hightower Advisors | 29,177Sep 2026 |
| 2 | William Blair & Company | 9,054Mar 2026 |
| 3 | IHT Wealth Management | 6,952Mar 2026 |
| 4 | Highpoint Planning Partners | 3,304Jul 2026 |
| 5 | Calamos Wealth Management | 3,141Jul 2026 |
| 6 | The Mather Group | 2,876Sep 2026 |
| 7 | Cibc Private Wealth Advisors | 2,020Jun 2026 |
| 8 | Chicago Partners Investment Group | 1,749Mar 2026 |
Counts of clients as filed; a client is an account holder the adviser counts, not a household.
| Rank | Name | Figure |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | William Blair & Company | 21Mar 2026 |
| 2 | Curi Capital | 17Jul 2026 |
| 3 | Arena Private Wealth | 7Sep 2026 |
| 4 | Laureate Wealth Management | 5May 2026 |
| 5 | Kuhn Capital Partners | 4Mar 2026 |
| 6 | Boon Capital Advisors | 3Mar 2026 |
| 7 | Chicago Partners Investment Group | 3Mar 2026 |
| 8 | Left Brain Wealth Management | 3Mar 2026 |
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All 220 wealth management firms
A to Z, with each firm's regulatory assets, its clients, the share of its assets held for individuals and its private funds, each with a pin to its Form ADV.
Showing all 220 firms
The first 30 are shown here; find, a kind or a size shows every match.
No row matches. Clear the find field or choose All.
Assets are the regulatory assets in the adviser's latest Form ADV (Item 5.F; solid bar). Clients are every client it counts (Item 5.D); Individuals is the share of its assets held for individuals, high net worth and other; private funds are the funds it advises (Item 7.B). Each pin opens the filing behind the figure. The square beside a name opens every figure with its filing and notes.
One firm holds 37% of the money
Five findings from the filings of the 213 firms counted.
- 37%
of the $533.4 billion the 213 firms counted report is one firm's: Hightower Advisors. Without it, the other 212 report $334.8 billion.
Assets, latest Form ADV of each; sums of filed figures
- $316MM
is the median: half of the 213 report less, and 171 report under $1 billion.
Assets, latest Form ADV of each
- 75
private funds are advised by the firms counted; William Blair & Company advises the most, 21.
Private funds on each Form ADV (Schedule D); sums of filed figures
- 73%
of their assets is high net worth money; the next largest client type is other individuals, at 13%.
Client types each adviser reports with its assets; sums of filed figures
- 113
of the 213 have their main office in Cook County, IL; the next place is DuPage County, IL, with 50.
Main office on each Form ADV
Questions
How many wealth management firms are there in Chicago?
This list holds 220 wealth management firms in the Chicago metro; 213 of them report regulatory assets on Form ADV, $533.4 billion together.
What are the largest wealth management firms in Chicago?
By the regulatory assets they report: Hightower Advisors $198.6 billion, Cibc Private Wealth Advisors $67.8 billion, William Blair & Company $64.3 billion, The Mather Group $13.4 billion, Curi Capital $11.6 billion.
How much do wealth management firms in Chicago typically manage?
Of the 213 that report, the median reports $316 million in regulatory assets; 171 report under $1 billion.
How do you start a relationship with wealth management firms in Chicago?
Each figure on this page carries a pin that opens the firm's Form ADV, which names its services, its clients and how to reach it. For fund managers and companies raising capital, Praxis Rock runs capital formation programs; see Raise Capital.
Sources and method
- Who is listed
- 220 wealth management firms, 211 are wealth managers and 9 are wealth managers with a broker-dealer. Every SEC registered adviser with a main office in Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN MSA (Census CBSA 16980) that reports $100 million or more in regulatory assets, half or more of them for individuals, less the firms our other lists carry as another kind.
- Ranking rule
- The top 20, every total, share and median, the charts and the answers to the questions use one set: the 213 advisers that report regulatory assets in their latest SEC Form ADV, with a main office in the Chicago metro, that the filing itself ties to the row (the CRD the list cites, or the row's own website in Item 1.I), one figure per adviser. A name match with no such tie is shown in the row's detail only, never ranked or counted.
- Our arithmetic
- The $533.4BN, the median, shares, charts and boards are sums and medians of filed numbers over that one set; 7 firms with a figure outside it stay listed with the figure and the reason.
- Pins
- Each figure's pin opens the filing it comes from: the adviser's Form ADV as filed, or the SEC filing index of its latest 13F report. The pin's label names the source and its date.
- What we searched
- On we read every firm's latest Form ADV in the SEC monthly file by its CRD and searched 13F reports by the CIK on its Form ADV record. Of the 220, 220 report on a current Form ADV and 47 file 13F reports.
- Words
- Each firm's kind is read from its Form ADV: a wealth manager advises individuals and offers financial planning (Items 5.D and 5.G); "also a broker-dealer" where Item 6.A is checked. Firm names only: no person, contact or website is shown.
| Figure | Source | Period, read |
|---|---|---|
| Assets, private funds, client types, main office, employees | SEC Form ADV adviser data, October 2026 report, and each adviser's Form ADV as filed, 220 advisers | Filings to 2026-10-01; read 2026-10-31 |
| Reports of listed stocks (13F filer) | SEC EDGAR Form 13F, 47 filers, by the CIK on each Form ADV | Latest filing; read 2026-10-31 |
| Main office to metro | HUD USPS ZIP to county crosswalk, 2026 Q2, and the Census metro delineation, July 2023 | Read 2026-10-31 |
| Logos | None shown: each firm has a monogram | Read 2026-10-31 |
Cite as: Praxis Rock Advisors, "Wealth Management Firms (RIAs) in Chicago," updated October 31, 2026, praxisrock.com/resources/investors/wealth-management-firms-chicago