# kaal:claim:2447306-004

**Claim.** If advisers' allegations that Form PF disclosures cannot be answered other than by guessing are correct, then the SEC's capacity to evaluate the data is compromised, and regulation built on incomplete and misleading data will itself be questionable.

**Type.** mechanism  **Support.** argued

**Holds when.**

- conditional on the accuracy of anecdotal reports from advisers

**Source quote.**

> If these allegations should be true, the SEC's ability to evaluate and assess the data could be compromised. The use of incomplete and misleading data could lead to the development of questionable policies and regulations applicable to the private fund industry.

**From.** Wulf A. Kaal, *Private Fund Disclosures Under the Dodd-Frank Act* (2014), I. Introduction, page 5

**Cite as.** Wulf A. Kaal, Private Fund Disclosures Under the Dodd-Frank Act (2014). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2447306

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**Failure mode.** garbage-in-policy-out  (family: data-quality-and-comparability)

**Topics.** private-funds, systemic-risk, risk-and-incentives, securities-law

**Keywords.** data-quality, form-pf, systemic-risk, regulatory-policy, sec

**Superseded by.** A later claim revises this one. Prefer quoting: https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/2998097-021

**Related claims.**

- supported_by: https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/2470008-022
- extends: https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/2348463-022
- extends: https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/2348463-007
- supported_by: https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/2470008-023
- supported_by: https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/2470008-024
- extended_by: https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/2470008-025
- extends: https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/2150377-040
- extended_by: https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/2470008-033

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