More than 36 terms covering 13F filings, SEC EDGAR, hedge fund strategies and portfolio analysis — concise and easy to understand. Built for retail investors, analysts and anyone who wants to systematically decode institutional investors.
Portfolio built around a small number of large individual positions rather than broad diversification.
Risk reduction by spreading capital across many uncorrelated positions.
Quarter-end record date as of which the holdings reported in a 13F were held.
The set of security types that must be disclosed in a 13F.
Catch-all term for capital deployed by especially well-informed or historically successful investors.
Unique identifier assigned by the SEC to every filer in the EDGAR system.
9-character security identifier for US and Canadian equities, bonds and options.
International 12-character security identifier.
Short letter code under which a security trades on an exchange.
Investor that uses sizable equity stakes to actively influence a company's strategy and governance.
Exchange-traded index fund with transparent intraday pricing.
Private wealth management vehicle for large family fortunes, often with a hedge-fund-like investment style.
Alternative investment vehicle with a broad strategy mandate, light regulation and access typically limited to qualified investors.
Professional market participants such as banks, insurers, pension funds and asset managers that invest with large capital pools.
Regulated retail investment fund offering investors broadly diversified equity portfolios.
The portion of an investment's return that exceeds the benchmark.
Total market value of client assets a manager oversees.
Measure of how sensitive a stock or portfolio is to the overall market.
Measure of how actively a fund manager trades positions.
Comparison of a metric between two consecutive quarters.
Breakdown of a portfolio across economic sectors.
A portfolio's largest individual positions by market value.
Quarterly mandatory disclosure that institutional investment managers file with the SEC, listing their US equity holdings.
The standard variant of the 13F filing, containing the full list of reportable holdings.
Notice filing in which a manager signals that its holdings are reported in another manager's 13F-HR.
Corrected or supplemented version of a previously submitted 13F filing.
Request by a filer to keep specific positions confidential for a limited time.
Disclosure of securities transactions by insiders (directors, officers, 10% shareholders).
Mandatory disclosure when crossing the 5% ownership threshold in a listed company with activist intent.
Simplified variant of the 13D for passive investors holding more than 5% of a company.