Common Cents Planning

RIASEC RegisteredEst. 2004
Total AUM
$542M
Discretionary
$500M
92% of AUM
Avg account
$379K
Accounts
1,431
Employees
8
Advisory reps
6

Firm details

Headquarters
Glen Mills, Pennsylvania
CRD number
120131
Registered since
January 14, 2004
Custodians
NATIONAL FINANCIAL SERVICES LLC
Fee structure
Percentage of AUM, Hourly Charges
Client types
  • HNWI66.92%
  • Individuals24.77%
  • Other7.91%
  • Pension & Profit Sharing Plans0.21%
  • Corporations / Businesses0.18%
Services
Financial PlanningPortfolio Management for IndividualsPension Consulting

Firm profile

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Overview

Common Cents Planning is an independent registered investment adviser organized as a corporation and registered with the SEC since 2004. Ownership is listed as individual. The firm focuses on serving individual and family clients with a mix of financial planning and discretionary portfolio management for individuals and small businesses, and it also lists pension consulting among its advisory activities. Its fee model combines a percentage-of-assets-under-management charge with hourly billing. The firm is not identified as an ESG-focused investor and does not operate as a capital allocator to external managers.

Assets & Accounts

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Investments & Alternatives

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Investment profile

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Traditional investments used

Alternative investments used

Active ESG investor

Technology & operations

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CRM & tech providers

TAMPs used

Clients

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Client base

Client personas

Asset composition

Asset composition: Public Funds/Mutual Funds 83%, Exchange Traded Equities 7%, Cash & Cash Equivalents 5%, US Government Bonds 3%, Investment Grade Corp Bonds 1%, Other 1%83%
  • Public Funds/Mutual Funds83%
  • Exchange Traded Equities7%
  • Cash & Cash Equivalents5%
  • US Government Bonds3%
  • Investment Grade Corp Bonds1%

Owners & executives

3 of 3
  • William Muller

    William Muller

    Chief Executive OfficerCRD 2247363

  • Mildred Louise Santos

    Mildred Louise Santos

    Client CoordinatorCRD 5339351

  • Matthew Ellis

    Matthew Ellis

    President, Chief Compliance OfficerCRD 5588159

Contacts

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  • Victoria Provost

    Victoria Provost

    Financial AdvisorCRD 6843618

  • Frederick Dunbar

    Investment Advisor RepresentativeCRD 1011229

  • Kevin Lake

    Kevin Lake

    Financial AdvisorCRD 6249118

Wealth teams

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Newly hired reps

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Recent M&A activity

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Recent filings

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Awards

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ETF holdings

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Active vs passive

$196M in ETFs

Passive

65%

$127M

Active

23%

$69.1M

ETFProviderStyleCategoryValueShares% of portfolio
ISHARES S&P 500 VALUE ETF (IVE)BlackRockPassiveLarge Value$26.2M115,17213.35%

Location

Primary office

Glen Mills, PA

Delaware

Location

Glen Mills, PA

Headquartered in Glen Mills, PA, anchoring the Philadelphia-Reading-Camden, PA-NJ-DE-MD metro in the Northeast.

Metro area
Philadelphia-Reading-Camden, PA-NJ-DE-MD
Region
Northeast
County
Delaware
Address
239 Baltimore Pike
Time zone
ET (UTC-5)
Office locations

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