Build a targeted firm universe
Use reported characteristics and identifiers to narrow a market without treating every field as equally current.
Adviser intelligence
Find adviser firms—and understand the records behind them.
Research firms and representatives through Form ADV, Schedule D private funds, brochures, Form CRS, registration history, and direct links to official records.
Connected adviser research
Move from a firm to the full public context.
- Registration, firm, and individual CRD identifiers
- Regulatory assets, clients, ownership, and offices
- Private funds and service-provider relationships
- Fees, services, conflicts, and narrative disclosures
- Filing, amendment, and regulatory history
More than a list
Research firms in context, not as disconnected rows.
Follow filing history
Separate snapshots, amendments, brochures, and withdrawal records while retaining their reporting dates.
Open the official record
Check consequential values against the official profile and underlying filing instead of relying on a black-box summary.
Connected adviser record
Move from the structured profile to the people, funds, and disclosures around it.
Form ADV firm recordsRegistration, ownership, clients, offices, regulatory AUM, disclosures, amendments, and withdrawals.
Schedule D private fundsPrivate fund IDs, reported gross assets, fund types, minimums, master-feeder structures, and service providers.
Investment adviser representativesSource-dated individual registrations, employment relationships, qualifications, jurisdictions, and public disclosures.
ADV brochures and Form CRSSearchable narrative sections covering services, fees, strategies, risks, conflicts, discipline, and retail relationships.
Use the number correctly
Regulatory AUM is not a universal measure of assets.
Regulatory assets under management
RAUM is a Form ADV measure calculated under regulatory instructions. It should be labeled with its filing date and should not be silently substituted for marketing AUM, total firm assets, or 13F reported value.
Read the RAUM definitionA defensible firm screen
Know which questions the filing can answer.
Who is the adviser?
Use legal names, CRD numbers, registration records, and locations to identify the firm before comparing it with similarly named organizations.
What did it report?
Keep client, employee, office, ownership, and regulatory AUM fields connected to the Form ADV filing and schedule that supplied them.
When was it true?
Show the filing date and applicable reporting context. A later amendment should extend the history rather than erase the earlier disclosure.
What remains unknown?
A public filing does not establish investment performance, current commercial AUM, product fit, or an endorsement. Those questions require other evidence.
Adviser research
Start with the firms. Keep the filings attached.
Search adviser firms and inspect the records behind every result.
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