# Ambiguity

`kaal:entity:ambiguity`

**Status.** derived

This node is assembled mechanically from the 5 claims that carry the concept tag `ambiguity`. It is a roster of what the corpus says under this term. It is **not** an adjudicated definition: no single statement here has been ruled canonical, and no first-appearance call has been made. Read the claims and judge for yourself.

## Every claim under this term

5 claims across 1 works, 2014 to 2014.

**2014**

- [2447306-021](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/2447306-021) [mechanism/evidenced] -- The dominant driver of Form PF time consumption is data gathering rather than form completion: 36 percent of respondents named data gathering as the task consuming most of their time, followed by delta options and ambiguous questions or unclear instructions.
  > The majority of respondents (36%) identified "Data Gathering" as the task on which they spent the majority of their time, followed by references to "Delta Options" and "Ambiguous questions / unclear instructions".
  Wulf A. Kaal, Private Fund Disclosures Under the Dodd-Frank Act (2014). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2447306
- [2447306-022](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/2447306-022) [empirical/evidenced] *(failure mode)* -- Asked what the SEC should fix first, respondents named the burdensome nature and the ambiguity of Form PF as the most pressing issues, not the substance of what is disclosed.
  > Respondents identified the burdensome nature and the ambiguity of Form PF as the most pressing issues with Form PF.
  Wulf A. Kaal, Private Fund Disclosures Under the Dodd-Frank Act (2014). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2447306
- [2447306-023](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/2447306-023) [empirical/evidenced] -- Complaints about Form PF's ambiguity coexist with acceptance of its substance: the same majority that flagged ambiguity as the most pressing issue also considered their existing reporting systems adequate and agreed with the SEC's definitions and instructions.
  > However, the majority of respondents also considered their existing reporting systems adequate for capturing the information required by the SEC and agreed with the SEC's definitions and instructions for Form PF.
  Wulf A. Kaal, Private Fund Disclosures Under the Dodd-Frank Act (2014). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2447306
- [2447306-030](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/2447306-030) [failure/evidenced] *(failure mode)* -- Regulatory flexibility can backfire: a category of respondents reported that the flexibility the SEC provides is not useful precisely because it is unclear and generates confusion.
  > Another category of responses indicated that the flexibility provided by the SEC is not useful because it is not clear and creates confusion.
  Wulf A. Kaal, Private Fund Disclosures Under the Dodd-Frank Act (2014). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2447306
- [2447306-042](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/2447306-042) [design/argued] -- Standardizing private fund adviser reporting obligations is the author's proposed remedy for the shortcomings advisers identified, because standardization attacks the ambiguity and inefficiency in the reporting requirements at their source and simplifies the disclosure regime.
  > Standardization may help address the ambiguities and inefficiencies that currently exist in the reporting requirements and help simplify and streamline the disclosure requirements for the private fund industry.
  Wulf A. Kaal, Private Fund Disclosures Under the Dodd-Frank Act (2014). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2447306

## Verify

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    curl -s https://wulfkaal.github.io/entities/ambiguity.md | sha256sum

**Canonical form.** This markdown file is the canonical hashed representation of this entity node. Its sha256 is the content hash.