Apella Wealth: Platform Profile

Overview

Apella Wealth is the business name used by SEC-registered investment adviser Apella Capital, LLC.

Current legal identity:

• Investment adviser: Apella Capital, LLC
• Doing business as: Apella Wealth
• CRD: 171106
• SEC number: 801-79650

The current pricing story requires a sharp separation between new-client and legacy arrangements.

Current June 25, 2026 Form CRS:

• New client tiered range: 0.50%-1.50%
• New client fees negotiable: Yes
• Legacy fee ceiling: up to 1.75%

The current brochure also states a $500,000 minimum account size that Apella can waive.

May fit better for

• households seeking financial planning and investment management together;
• clients comfortable with evidence-based/model-driven portfolio construction;
• investors near or above the $500,000 general minimum;
• clients who value a national adviser with local offices;
• households comfortable with tiered AUM pricing;
• clients who understand that acquired or grandfathered pricing can differ from current new-client terms.

May fit less well for

• small portfolios where a percentage fee may be comparatively expensive;
• clients seeking one flat universal price;
• investors who expect every acquired office to use identical historical pricing;
• users who want no separate custodian charges;
• clients who interpret the firm's largest legacy percentage as the standard new-client rate;
• investors seeking a pure self-directed brokerage experience.

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The current firm minimum is $500,000 and can be waived

Current brochure:

• Minimum account size: $500,000
• Minimum waivable: Yes

Store the waiver policy.

New-client tiered fees range from 0.50% to 1.50%

Current Form CRS:

• New client tiered fee low: 0.50%
• New client tiered fee high: 1.50%
• New client schedule tiered: Yes
• Fees negotiable: Yes

The signed advisory agreement controls the client's pricing.

Legacy clients can pay more than the new-client ceiling

Current Form CRS states:

• Legacy fee ceiling: up to 1.75%

That is a legacy-client reference.

It is not Apella's standard new-client maximum.

Current acquisition and grandfathered schedules can also contain relationship-specific structures that differ from the standard new-client tiers.

A third-party parser can misread legacy tables as a universal rate

Current disclosure includes multiple fee structures.

A table-extraction service can flatten one legacy or acquired schedule into a single firmwide percentage.

Lovable must import the supplied structured facts, not reconstruct pricing from third-party parser output.

Critical guard:

• 1 75 is standard new client fee: No

Both tiered and linear schedules exist

Current CRS states Apella uses tiered and linear fee schedules.

The client agreement identifies which structure applies.

Financial planning can be bundled or separately priced

Current CRS states advisory clients may receive planning as part of the bundled advisory service.

Standalone financial-planning clients can pay a negotiated flat fee, and some offices maintain ongoing planning-fee arrangements.

Custodian charges are separate

Current CRS says clients can pay custodian fees and transaction charges such as wires, commissions or termination fees, depending on the custodian and account.

Mutual funds and ETFs also carry fund-level expenses.

Apella does not charge performance-based fees

Current Form CRS:

• Performance based fee: No

Custody varies by account

Current firm materials reference custodians including Schwab, Fidelity and Axos in applicable arrangements.

Assessment

Apella's review should resist the temptation to publish one simple top-line percentage.

The accurate current framing is:

new-client tiered range 0.50%-1.50% + waivable $500,000 minimum + legacy/acquired pricing that can differ and can be higher.

That structure is more useful than a synthetic 0.50%-1.75% range because it tells readers which pricing is actually aimed at a new relationship.