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Screening advisers by products and scale selects firms by what they sell and how big they are: the vehicles a firm issues, the asset classes its money buys, the geographies its brochure claims, and its self-reported regulatory AUM. The product and asset-class vocabularies are deliberately separate questions, and the scale axis carries a structural rule about exempt reporting advisers that decides what a ranking can see.
Plan: Fund · Credits: 1 per call; screen facets are free

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Vehicles Versus Asset Classes — Two Vocabularies

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string
What the firm issues; comma-separated, matches ANY: mutual_fund, etf, private_fund, separately_managed_account, model_portfolio, wrap_program, closed_end_fund, interval_fund, collective_investment_trust, ucits, annuity_insurance, section_529_plan.
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string
What the money buys; comma-separated, matches ANY: equity, fixed_income, real_estate, private_equity, private_credit, structured_credit, structured_products, bank_loans, commodities, currencies, digital_assets, derivatives, infrastructure, multi_asset, cash.
The two are never interchangeable: an ETF issuer that buys bonds is product_types=etf plus asset_classes=fixed_income.
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string
Where the brochure says the money goes: global, us, north_america, international_ex_us, emerging_markets, europe, asia_pacific, japan, latin_america, middle_east_africa. Most brochures name none — this returns the firms that wrote it down, not the complete list of managers in a region.

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The Scale Filters

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number
Total regulatory AUM floor in USD, self-reported on ADV Part 1; max_aum sets the ceiling. This family spells bounds min_/max_ — not the _gte/_lte of the company screen — and an unknown parameter returns a 400 rather than being silently ignored.

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Sorting Drops a Whole Registration Class

An exempt reporting adviser files an abbreviated ADV that reports no AUM, no account count and no headcount, so the sorts aum_total, aum_discretionary, accounts_total and employee_count all drop every ERA — and any AUM bound excludes them too. crd is the only sort that keeps every firm, and paging it at limit=1000 is the full-roster export path. When a sort empties the page, read the unranked block before concluding nothing matched.

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The Coverage Switches

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boolean
true restricts to firms whose Part 2A brochure is in the store. Every brochure filter on any adviser page silently narrows to that population — this switch, and the facets totals, make the narrowing visible instead of reading as “few firms do this”.
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boolean
true restricts to 13F filers with a computed style row.
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