# kaal:claim:2470008-028

**Claim.** The substantive defects in Form PF data are the ambiguity of several key questions, inaccurate definitions paired with insufficient SEC guidance, and difficulty aggregating the required information.

**Type.** failure  **Support.** evidenced

**Holds when.**

- Form PF as filed by private fund advisers

**Source quote.**

> Core substantive issues with Form PF include: the ambiguity of several key questions on Form PF, the inaccuracy of Form PF definitions and corresponding insufficiency of SEC guidance for Form PF, and difficulties in aggregating the required Form PF information.

**From.** Wulf A. Kaal, *The Systemic Risk of Private Funds after the Dodd-Frank Act* (2014), 1. Sub-optimality of Systemic Risk Data

**Cite as.** Wulf A. Kaal, The Systemic Risk of Private Funds after the Dodd-Frank Act (2014). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2470008

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**Failure mode.** Ambiguity, bad definitions, aggregation difficulty  (family: definitional-ambiguity)

**Topics.** private-funds, securities-law

**Keywords.** form-pf, definitional-ambiguity, aggregation, sec-guidance, data-quality

**Related claims.**

- restated_by: https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/2998097-023

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