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   "text": "SEC flexibility in answering Form PF questions is valued by filers: 72.92 percent of respondents said the flexibility the SEC provides is helpful.",
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   "text": "SEC flexibility helps filers through a specific mechanism: it authorizes advisers to apply their own internal methodologies when interpreting and answering Form PF questions and to state their own assumptions, rather than forcing them onto an unfamiliar measurement basis.",
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   "text": "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.",
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