# kaal:claim:2998097-023

**Claim.** Form PF data suffer from core shortcomings: ambiguity in several key questions, inaccurate definitions with correspondingly insufficient SEC guidance, and difficulty aggregating the required information.

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

**Holds when.**

- Form PF as implemented after the Dodd-Frank Act

**Source quote.**

> These included: the ambiguity of several key questions on Form PF, the inaccuracy of Form PF definitions and the corresponding insufficiency of SEC guidance for Form PF, and difficulties in aggregating the required Form PF information.

**From.** Wulf A. Kaal, *Private Investment Fund Regulation - Theory and Empirical Evidence from 1998 to 2016* (2017), IV.2 Systemic Risk, page 35

**Cite as.** Wulf A. Kaal, Private Investment Fund Regulation - Theory and Empirical Evidence from 1998 to 2016 (2017). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2998097

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**Failure mode.** Form PF design defects  (family: definitional-ambiguity)

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

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

**Related claims.**

- restates: https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/2470008-028
- extends: https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/2470008-004

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