Regulatory AUM and 13F value answer different questions
The two numbers can describe the same organization and still measure different universes, dates, and reporting obligations.
Original research from public investment data
Investment data research that keeps the source attached.
AUMSearch turns adviser, fund, offering, portfolio, and institutional holdings records into useful analysis and clear education. Read what changed, understand what the filings actually mean, and inspect the method and official evidence behind every material finding.
Latest research
Start with the public-data fundamentals.
These guides explain how to compare investment records without collapsing different forms, dates, entities, or measures into one unreliable answer.
How to compare Form ADV filing history
An adviser’s current profile is only one point in a filing history. A defensible comparison identifies the firm, selects two dated versions, and keeps each changed field tied to its source.
How to search Form D and interpret offering amendments
Form D is useful for finding private-offering activity, but the filing is a regulatory notice—not audited proof of capital raised, fund quality, or investment performance.
What Form D filings reveal—and what they do not
Form D can map reported private-offering activity at scale when every amount, date, person, and amendment remains tied to the notice that supplied it.
Form ADV Schedule D and Form D describe different private-market records
Schedule D begins with an investment adviser’s regulatory filing. Form D begins with an issuer’s exempt-offering notice. Similar names do not make the records interchangeable.
A practical map of public investment-manager data
The useful unit is not one downloaded row. It is a connected trail from entity to filing to reported fact to official source.
How to evaluate an investment-data source before you trust it
Coverage counts are easy to market. The harder questions are what each record means, where it came from, and what happens when the source changes.
Research desks
Follow the markets hidden inside the filings.
The same connected data supports timely stories, recurring lists, and historical analysis. Each desk begins with the public record and defines what its labels do—and do not—mean.
Advisers & private markets
Trace the adviser business from registration to offering activity.
Connect adviser firms, Form ADV amendments, representatives, private funds, narrative disclosures, and Form D offerings. Research can show who changed, what a firm says it does, and which private vehicles or offerings sit around it—without treating a filing as a confirmed launch or transaction.
Research includes
Explore adviser recordsExplore Schedule D private fundsExplore IAR recordsRead ADV brochures and CRSSearch Form D filings- New adviser and IAR filing lists
- Private funds and offering activity
- Fees, services, conflicts, and disclosures
Funds & portfolios
Watch registered products and portfolio exposures.
Move from registrants and series to Form 485 registration activity and N-PORT holdings. Together these records support research on product changes, portfolio composition, and exposures across comparable reporting periods.
Research includes
Explore registered funds and ETFsExplore N-PORT portfolios- New fund, series, and ETF activity
- Holdings, concentration, and exposures
- Portfolio changes across reporting periods
Institutional holdings
Compare reported positions across available quarters.
Move from a filing manager to Form 13F reports, amendments, issuers, securities, values, quantities, discretion, and voting authority. Period comparisons can surface new, increased, decreased, retained, and exited reported positions without calling them trades.
Research includes
Explore Form 13F holdingsResolve security identifiers- Quarterly manager comparisons
- Security ownership patterns
- Concentration and position changes
Built for discovery and depth
Different questions need different kinds of research.
Timely publishing should not come at the expense of context. Every format has a job, a clear evidence standard, and a route into the underlying data.
Data briefings
Original findings from a defined source period, with the record universe, data-through date, calculations, and important limitations published beside the analysis.
Lists and rankings
Useful adviser, representative, fund, offering, portfolio, holdings, and security lists with a dated cutoff, explicit inclusion rules, sortable evidence, and enough explanation to stand on their own.
Filing watch
Timely views of newly published and amended records across advisers, funds, offerings, portfolios, and institutional holdings. Each item keeps the filer, form type, filing date, reporting period or effective date, and official document attached.
Guides and methodology
Evergreen education for understanding forms, identifiers, dates, field definitions, calculations, source limitations, and repeatable research workflows.
The AUMSearch standard
A finding is only as useful as the trail behind it.
Public filings can answer meaningful questions, but only when the population, dates, fields, calculations, and limits are visible. AUMSearch Research keeps that context beside the result.
- Define the universe.State which forms, periods, filing states, and entities were eligible.
- Date the evidence.Show the reporting period, filing date, source cutoff, and editorial update.
- Separate fact from inference.Label source-reported, normalized, calculated, and inferred values distinctly.
- Make it reproducible.Publish the methodology, official sources, limitations, and data-access path.
Continue in the data
Read the analysis, then inspect the records yourself.
Search in the browser or carry the same source-linked records into an API, MCP, export, or recurring data-feed workflow.