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Michael Patrick Hatch

Michael Patrick Hatch

CFP®
SEQUOIA FINANCIAL GROUP, L.L.C.
Pasadena, CA
·CRD# 1968086·37 years experience

Professional Summary

Michael Patrick Hatch, CFP® is a registered financial advisor currently at SEQUOIA FINANCIAL GROUP, L.L.C. located in Pasadena, California. Michael is registered as an IAR (Investment Advisor Representative) and started their career in finance in 1989. Michael has worked at 6 firms and has passed the Series 63, SIE, Series 31, Series 7 and Series 24 exams.

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Always Fiduciary

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Fiduciary Standard

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Account Minimum

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Credentials

CFP®
Certified Financial PlannerSince 1993

Years of Experience

37 years in the financial services industry

Current & Past Employments

SEQUOIA FINANCIAL GROUP, L.L.C.·CRD# 117756
RIA
201 S. Lake Avenue, Suite 500, Pasadena, CA 91101
October 16, 2025 - Present
STERLING FINANCIAL GROUP, INC.·CRD# 300327
RIA
Pasadena, CA
April 29, 2019 - June 30, 2026
LPL FINANCIAL LLC·CRD# 6413
RIA
Pasadena, CA
February 3, 2017 - December 1, 2022
THE STERLING GROUP·CRD# 111782
RIA
Pasadena, CA
November 5, 1999 - April 29, 2019
LPL FINANCIAL LLC·CRD# 6413
RIA
Pasadena, CA
September 24, 1998 - September 8, 2016
LPL FINANCIAL LLC·CRD# 6413
BD
Pasadena, CA
September 8, 1998 - December 1, 2022
IDS LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY·CRD# 6321
BD
Minneapolis, MN
July 18, 1989 - August 28, 1998
AMERIPRISE FINANCIAL SERVICES, LLC·CRD# 6363
BD
Minneapolis, MN
July 18, 1989 - August 28, 1998

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Current Firm

SEQUOIA FINANCIAL GROUP, L.L.C.
SEQUOIA FINANCIAL GROUP, L.L.C.

AFFINIA FINANCIAL GROUP | ZEKE CAPITAL ADVISORS | ZCA, A SEQUOIA FINANCIAL GROUP COMPANY | SPECIAL NEEDS FINANCIAL PLANNING | SEQUOIA FINANCIAL GROUP, LLC | SEQUOIA FINANCIAL GROUP, L.L.C. | SEQUOIA FINANCIAL ADVISORS, L.L.C. | CARLSON RETIREMENT PLAN SERVICES

CRD#: 117756 / SEC#: 801-61089
RIA
Registered Investment Advisory firm - SEC (4/19/2002 Approved)
Ohio
Registered Investment Advisory firm - Ohio (5/10/2002 Terminated)
Oregon
Registered Investment Advisory firm - Oregon (10/22/2018 Terminated)
Why is a state registration marked "Terminated"? When a firm registers with the SEC (usually after managing $100M+ AUM), it often withdraws separate state firm registrations unless required by that state. The firm can still serve clients there through its individually registered Investment Advisor Representatives (IARs).

Contact Information

Main Address

3500 Embassy Parkway, Akron, OH 44333

Phone Number

(330) 375-9480

# of Employees

424

SEC notice filing (53 States and Territories)

Registered to provide investment advisory services in 53 US states and territories.

Documents

Customer Relationship Summary (CRS / SEC)Latest Form ADV

Part 2 Brochures

SEQUOIA FINANCIAL ADVISORS, LLC ADV PART 2A 2-2025 (6/12/2026)

Regulatory Assets Under Management

Total Number of Accounts

39,636

AUM (Assets Under Management)

$32,243,580,060

Accountant Surprise Examination Report

Filing DateForm ADV-E CoverForm ADV-E Report
11/18/2025Cover PageReport
11/19/2024Cover PageReport
01/10/2024Cover PageReport

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Other business activities

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1. 12/27/2001: No Business Name - Investment Related - At Reported Business Location(s) - NON-VARIABLE INSURANCE - Time Spent 5% - INDEPENDENT INSURANCE SALES. 2. 3/25/2013: ESTATES OF STEPHEN, KIM & AUSTIN HATCH - Investment Related - ACT IN A FIDUCIARY CAPACITY - Successor Trustee - Time Spent 5% - PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE FOR THE ESTATES OF MY BROTHER AND SISTER IN LAW, AND TRUSTEE ON THEIR TRUSTS. I AM THE GUARDIAN OF MY NEPHEW. 3. 4/18/2013 - Sterling Group Wealth Management - DBA: (Hybrid) The Sterling Group - Investment Related - At Reported Business Location(s) - Registered Investment Advisor DBA - Time Spent 80% - Provide Asset Management for an annual fee and Financial Planning Services for a fixed or hourly fee. 4. 3/25/2019 - Sterling Financial Group - Investment Related - At Reported Business Location(s) - DBA for LPL Business (entity for LPL business) - Started 04/01/2019 - 130 Hours Per Month/120 Hours During Securities Trading. 5. 5/14/2019 - Sterling Financial Group, Inc. - DBA: (Hybrid) Sterling Financial Group - Investment Related - At Reported Business Location(s) - Registered Investment Advisor Hybrid - IAR - Started 04/01/2019 - 130 Hours Per Month/120 Hours During Securities Trading - I provide investment advisory services through Sterling Financial Group, Inc., an independent investment advisor firm. I started this business activity in April 2019. I expect to spend approximately 130 hours per month on this activity. Please see the advisory firm's Form ADV for more information about its address, the nature of its business, its owners, and its services at http://www.adviserinfo.sec.gov/IAPD. The firm is separate from and independent of LPL Financial. 6.) Sequoia Financial Group, LLC - Investment related - Investment Advisor Representative - 3875 Embassy Parkway, Suite 100, Akron, OH 44333

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Primary Firm SEC Registration

This SEC-registered firm can serve clients nationwide. Some states may require the firm to submit a notice filing if the firm has more than 5 clients or a physical office there. You can view these state-level filings under the section titled "State Registrations and Notice Filings".
SEQUOIA FINANCIAL GROUP, L.L.C.
SEQUOIA FINANCIAL GROUP, L.L.C.

AFFINIA FINANCIAL GROUP | ZEKE CAPITAL ADVISORS | ZCA, A SEQUOIA FINANCIAL GROUP COMPANY | SPECIAL NEEDS FINANCIAL PLANNING | SEQUOIA FINANCIAL GROUP, LLC | SEQUOIA FINANCIAL GROUP, L.L.C. | SEQUOIA FINANCIAL ADVISORS, L.L.C. | CARLSON RETIREMENT PLAN SERVICES

CRD#: 117756 / SEC#: 801-61089
RIA
Registered Investment Advisory firm - SEC (4/19/2002 Approved)
Ohio
Registered Investment Advisory firm - Ohio (5/10/2002 Terminated)
Oregon
Registered Investment Advisory firm - Oregon (10/22/2018 Terminated)
Why is a state registration marked "Terminated"? When a firm registers with the SEC (usually after managing $100M+ AUM), it often withdraws separate state firm registrations unless required by that state. The firm can still serve clients there through its individually registered Investment Advisor Representatives (IARs).

State Registrations and Notice Filings

Listed states reflect where the advisor is authorized to serve clients under state regulations.
IAR
means the advisor is registered as an Investment Advisor Representative in this state and is authorized to provide investment advice to clients there.
IAR
California
(10/16/2025)
IAR
Michigan
(10/20/2025)
IAR
Texas
(10/17/2025)

Don't see your state listed? The advisor may still be able to work with you under the federal De Minimis Rule, which allows up to five investment advisory clients in a state without registration. Some states, like TX, LA, NE, and NH, may still require registration or notice filing. Contact the advisor or their firm to confirm their investment advisory availability in your state.

Exams

Financial professionals may take different exams throughout their careers based on the types of services they provide and roles they perform.

Series 63 — Uniform Securities Agent State Law Examination

Passed Dec 1990About the Series 63 exam

SIE — Securities Industry Essentials Examination

Passed Oct 2018About the SIE exam

Series 31 — Futures Managed Funds Examination

Passed Aug 2003About the Series 31 exam

Series 7 — General Securities Representative Examination

Passed Jul 1989About the Series 7 exam

Series 24 — General Securities Principal Examination

Passed Aug 1999About the Series 24 exam

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CRS (Client Relationship Summary) - RIA

SEQUOIA FINANCIAL GROUP, L.L.C. — Registered Investment Advisory firm

Version Date: Thu, Mar 21, 2024

Sequoia Financial Advisors, L.L.C. (“SFA”) is registered with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) as an Investment Adviser. Because brokerage and investment advisory services and fees differ, it is important for you, the retail investor, to understand the differences. In addition to this relationship summary, there are free and simple tools available for you to research firms and financial professionals at Investor.gov/CRS. This site also provides educational materials about broker-dealers, investment advisers, and investing.

We offer investment advisory services to retail investors including investment management, wealth planning and trust support services. We work with you to determine your investment objectives, risk tolerance, and other factors to develop a strategy. This enables us to give you continuous and focused investment advice. Once we construct an investment portfolio for you, we will monitor performance and rebalance your portfolio on an ongoing basis. We generally manage our client accounts on a discretionary basis. If you participate on a discretionary basis, you allow us to manage your account without your approval prior to each transaction. You may limit our discretion by providing our firm with your restrictions and guidelines in writing. If you participate on a non-discretionary basis, we must obtain your approval prior to executing any transactions on your behalf (i.e. the ultimate decision is yours). SFA does not have a minimum account requirement.

SFA also offers wealth planning services based upon an analysis of individual needs and goals. This may include planning surrounding your balance sheet, cash flow needs, risk management, college planning, estate planning, business succession planning, charitable giving, or other topics dependent upon your unique circumstances. Monitoring services are dependent upon our ongoing relationship. Lastly, SFA offers Trust Support Services. This service is explained in detail in our form ADV.

For more detailed information about our services, refer to item 4 of our brochure on our Form ADV 2A.


Questions to ask your Professional:

  • Given my financial situation, should I choose an investment advisory service? Why or why not?
  • How will you choose investments to recommend to me?
  • What is your relevant experience, including your licenses, education and other qualifications? What do these qualifications mean?

For Investment Management Services, you will be charged an ongoing management fee based on the assets under management in accordance with the fee schedule presented in your client agreement. Fees are negotiable based on factors such as the client’s financial situation and circumstances and the amount of assets under management. When you are charged an asset-based fee, the more assets that are in the account, the more you will pay in fees. This creates an incentive to encourage you to increase the amount of assets invested in these accounts. In addition to the fee(s) above, you will be responsible for certain charges imposed by the custodian and/or broker, including transaction fees, custodian fee (e.g. wire fees), and internal fees related to mutual funds. Other than one private fund, we do not typically charge any performance-based fees (fees based on a share of capital gains on or capital appreciation of the assets of a client).

Our fees are exclusive of brokerage commissions, transaction fees, and other related costs and expenses which shall be incurred by the Client. Clients may incur certain charges imposed by custodians, brokers, third party investments and other third parties such as fees charged by managers, sub-advisers, custodial fees, deferred sales charges, odd-lot differentials, transfer taxes, wire transfer and electronic fund fees, and other fees and taxes on brokerage accounts and securities transactions. Mutual funds exchange traded funds, hedge funds, private equity funds and other pooled investment vehicles also charge internal management fees, which are disclosed in a fund’s prospectus or other offering materials.

If you are only engaging our wealth planning services, SFA charges a fee for preparing a Plan. This fee is negotiable and is specified in an engagement letter. SFA offers Trustee Support Services. There is a setup fee and ongoing fees. Fees are in addition to investment management fees described above and vary by client based on scope of the engagement, and the complexity of the financial situation, among other factors.

You will pay fees and costs whether you make or lose money on your investments. Fees and costs will reduce any amount of money you make on your investments over time. Please make sure you understand what fees and costs you are paying.

For additional information about our fees, please reference Items 5 and 7 of our Brochure at Form ADV 2A.


Questions to ask your Professional:

  • Help me understand how these fees and costs might affect my investments. If I give you $10,000 to invest, how much will go to fees and costs, and how much will be invested for me?

When we act as your investment adviser, we have to act in your best interest and not put our interest ahead of yours. At the same time, the way we make money creates some conflicts with your interests. You should understand and ask us about these conflicts because they can affect the investment advice we provide you.

Here are some examples to help you understand what this means.

  • Our firm uses non-directed client commissions (e.g. “soft dollars”) to receive investment related research and services from our custodians. These services provide an incentive to recommend the use of these custodians.

  • We have agreements with unaffiliated third parties and our custodians to solicit clients on our behalf. In exchange, we compensate them. Your fees are not increased due to this.

  • Our custodians provide benefits related to trading, research, compliance, and marketing amongst others. These services provide an incentive to recommend the use of these custodians

  • SFA has an arrangement with an affiliated company to provide insurance solutions. The affiliation creates a conflict as there is a benefit to referring. Clients are under no obligation, contractually or otherwise, to buy insurance products. This is defined in our Form ADV.

  • Proprietary Products: We may recommend that you invest assets in a pooled investment vehicle which we manage. One of these vehicles (the ZCA Focus Fund) pay us performance fees from this fund and therefore have an incentive to recommend it to you.

  • Third-Party Payments: We do not receive any compensation from third-party issuers or investments.

For additional information about our obligations as an investment adviser and our conflicts, please reference Item 10 of our Firm Brochure at Form ADV 2A.


Questions to ask your Professional:

  • How might your conflicts of interest affect me, and how will you address them?

Our financial professionals are paid a salary plus bonuses based on company, team, and individual performance, which includes metrics like client retention and referrals that is derived from revenue the firm earns from the financial professional’s advisory services and recommendations.

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