Quantrium for RIAs
Automated Form PF Filing forPrivate Fund Advisors
Database-to-XML automation of Form PF preparation, calculation, validation, and multi-role approval — with full computation logs and audit trails for every filing cycle.
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Form PF has changed more in the past three years than in its first decade. The 2024 amendments pushed compliance dates from March 2025 to October 2026 across multiple extensions. On April 20, 2026, the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) jointly proposed a partial rollback of those same amendments — raising the filing threshold from $150M to $1B in Private Fund Assets Under Management (AUM), raising the large-hedge-fund-adviser threshold from $1.5B to $10B, and eliminating quarterly event reporting for private equity Fund Advisors .
That proposal is open for comment until late June 2026, and carries a minimum one-year transition period if adopted.
Nothing changes for your current filing obligations today.
What it does mean: the compliance landscape for private fund advisors is moving in both directions at once, and a platform that's wired around one fixed version of the form is a liability the moment the rule changes again. We built the Form PF Platform around the form's underlying data model, not a frozen snapshot of a single year's questions — so when sections are added, removed, or thresholds shift, updating the platform is a configuration change, not a rebuild.
Source: SEC/CFTC Joint Proposal, April 20, 2026 (Investment Advisors Act Release No. 6959). See how the Platform performed under real-world validation in the case study below.
File on Time – Every Time
Automated workflows with built-in
contributor-approver chains and email-triggered notifications that ensure filings are prepared, validated, and XML – ready well ahead of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) deadlines.
Accuracy You Can Defend
100% extraction accuracy from structured inputs, with computation logs showing exactly how every value was calculated, and a full change history of every edit made by every user.
From Weeks to Hours
What consumed your compliance team for weeks each quarter now runs in hours — with Admin, Contributor, and Approver roles managing a structured upload-to-XML workflow.
Is your team still assembling Form PF data from spreadsheets, fund administrators, and portfolio systems — then reconciling it all manually?
The Platform ingests fund data from structured Excel inputs with 100% extraction accuracy — no OCR guesswork, no parsing errors. Fund-level details, including investor classifications, leverage metrics, counterparty exposures, and strategy data are automatically mapped to the correct
Form PF sections and questions. Upload your files, verify the mapping on screen, and move to validation — no more copying between spreadsheets or reconciling across sources.
Are you confident that your Form PF calculations will survive SEC scrutiny — especially with the amended reporting requirements taking effect?
Every computed value — regulatory Asset Under Management (AUM), gross and net asset values, leverage ratios, internal rate of return (IRR), investor concentration — comes with a computation log showing exactly how it was derived from your inputs. Users can edit any extracted field before submission, with a full change history tracking who modified what and when. The Platform applies Section 1B requirements for private equity and other fund types, and Section 1C for hedge funds, with the correct questions and aggregation rules applied automatically. The final output is SEC-compliant XML built to the Investment Adviser Registration Depository (IARD) schema, ready for upload to the SEC portal.
Managing multiple private funds with different filing sections and approval chains?
Whether you manage 3 funds or 30, across hedge, private equity, and credit strategies, the Platform handles the complexity. Three distinct user roles — Admin, Contributor, Approver — enforce a structured workflow with email-triggered approval notifications. The system supports files up to 60MB with no limit on file count, and two-factor authentication — built in-house, with no third-party dependency — secures every login.
Built Precisely Around Sections 1B and 1C
The Form PF Platform is purpose-built for Section 1B (private equity and other private fund types) and Section 1C (hedge funds) — the sections every Form PF filer completes. It is not a general-purpose compliance suite with Form PF bolted on; it's built around this form's specific data model, validation rules, and XML schema.
Currently In Scope
- Section 1B and 1C preparation, calculation, and validation
- Structured Excel data ingestion
- SEC-compliant XML generation to the IARD schema
Not Currently In Scope
- Sections 2, 4, 5, and 6 (large hedge fund and large private equity fund adviser supplemental reporting)
- Unstructured document ingestion (the Platform reads structured spreadsheet inputs, not PDFs or scanned filings)
- Direct machine-to-machine submission to the SEC portal — generated XML is uploaded by your team through Financial Industry Regulatory Authority’ (FINRA's) Private Fund Reporting Depository (PFRD) system
If your filing obligations extend into the large-adviser sections, talk to us about your specific requirements — we can scope what's needed.
Trusted by Institutional Fund Evaluation Teams
Currently in production with an institutional fund evaluation and outsourced CIO firm — generating Form PF XML filings for a newly launched private fund alongside their existing fund administration relationship.
See the full validation results below ↓From Validation to Production-Readiness:
A Real-World Form PF Automation Case Study
A leading institutional investment adviser and outsourced CIO put the Form PF Platform through a rigorous, real-world validation — running it against actual funds, actual workpapers, and actual reporting standards, not a sandbox or synthetic data.
See the full validation scope, the 8-step workflow, what the review surfaced, and how it shaped the product roadmap.
Client details are anonymized at the client's request.
Filing compliance that works as hard as you do
Tailored automation for the most demanding regulatory filing in
private fund management
Why Quantrium
Purpose-Built for Form PF
Engineered from the ground up around the
Form PF data model — its sections, questions, validation rules, and XML submission schema. Every calculation follows SEC instructions precisely, and is not a bolted-on module from a general compliance platform.
Audit-Ready from Every Angle
Computation logs show how each value was calculated. Change history tracks every edit by user and timestamp. When the SEC examiner asks how you arrived at a number, you have a documented, defensible answer — not a spreadsheet with a broken formula.
Built for What's Coming
The SEC has extended the Form PF amendment deadline to October 1, 2026, and the expanded reporting is awaited. This Platform already incorporates the amended schema, with a roadmap that includes an internal formula editor to accept raw data inputs directly reducing your preparation effort.
Automate Your Form PF Filing Process
Partner with Quantrium to eliminate the manual burden of Form PF preparation, calculation, and validation — and redirect your compliance team's effort toward strategic initiatives.
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