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The Form ADV Adviser Directory contains the investment advisers on the SEC’s monthly Form ADV roster — both registered advisers and exempt reporting advisers. Each observation is one firm, identified by its CRD number, and carries the identity, location, contact and business figures the firm reported to the SEC. The roster is a monthly snapshot, not a live feed.
Plan: Professional and above · Credits: 1 per call

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What You Can Use the Form ADV Directory For

Resolve a manager’s name to a stable CRD and, for 13F filers, to a CIK you can pass to 13F Institutional Holdings. Build a list of firms by location, registration type or size. Find a firm’s phone number, website and contact e-mail. Enumerate the entire adviser roster as a table by paging with no filter.

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Form ADV Directory Coverage

Coverage is the SEC roster: firms that file Form ADV with the SEC, comprising hedge funds, mutual-fund managers, wealth managers, private-equity and venture firms, and exempt reporting advisers. Exempt reporting advisers file an abbreviated Form ADV. They report far fewer numbers, and they generally file no Part 2A brochure, so several fields are structurally null for them rather than missing.

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Key Form ADV Directory Fields

crd is the firm’s CRD number and is the primary identifier. cik is the SEC CIK, present only for firms that also file with EDGAR — in practice, 13F filers. firm_type is a derived business label spelled exactly as one of Hedge-Fund, Mutual-Fund, Mutual-Fund (perf-fee), Wealth-Manager, PE / VC, Hybrid (MF + Hedge), Pension / Institutional, Sub-Advisor or Other / Mixed. It is derived from ADV Part 1 numbers and exists only for 13F filers. sec_registration_type is Registered or ERA. City, state and country describe the main office. Every row carries a phone number; website and email_primary are present where found. Self-reported total regulatory assets under management, and the private-fund flags has_hedge_funds, has_pe_funds and has_vc_funds, describe the firm’s declared business. style_tier is the value/growth tier revealed by the firm’s own 13F book. It is filterable on the directory, but the full style read-out lives on the adviser profile.
Null style fields mean the firm does not file Form 13F — which is true of most wealth managers and of every exempt reporting adviser. It does not mean the firm’s style is unknown.

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Form ADV Directory Date Convention

The roster is a monthly snapshot. Rows describe the firm as of the most recent ADV filing captured in that snapshot, and the snapshot date is reported in the profile’s provenance block. A firm that changed address, ownership or size since the snapshot still reads as it did then.

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Form ADV Directory Sources

All figures on the directory row are self-reported by the firm to the SEC on Form ADV Part 1. They are not audited and are not FocusAlpha estimates. firm_type and style_tier are the two derived fields, and both are computed only for 13F filers.

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Search the Form ADV Directory

Use the institutions endpoint to search the directory. No filter is required: paging cursor at limit=1000 enumerates the whole roster.
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string
Firm-name substring, minimum 2 characters. Matches the legal name or the business name.
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string
Exact CRD number.
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string
Exact SEC CIK. 13F filers only.
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string
One of the nine derived labels, spelled exactly.
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string
Registered or ERA.
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string
Main-office US state code, e.g. CT.
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string
Main-office country as the ADV spells it, e.g. United States.
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string
Revealed 13F style tier, spelled exactly: Deep Growth, Growth-Biased, Blend / Core, Value-Biased, Deep Value.
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number
Total regulatory AUM floor in USD. max_aum sets the ceiling.
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boolean
Only firms with an extracted e-mail address.
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boolean
Only 13F filers with a style row.
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integer
default:"50"
Rows per page, between 1 and 1000. Page through with cursor.
Directory rows are deliberately light. The brochure layer, the full fee schedule, the 13F style read-out, discretionary versus non-discretionary AUM, account and headcount figures, and the per-address e-mail evidence are all on the adviser profile. See also Form ADV Part 2A Brochure Data for what a firm says its business is, Adviser Screening to find firms by description rather than by name, 13F Institutional Holdings for what a manager actually holds, and Venture Investor Directory for early-stage investors, most of whom are not on this roster.