Form Pf - Reporting Form For Investment Advisers To Private Funds And Certain Commodity Pool Operators And Commodity Trading Advisors Page 2

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Form PF: General Instructions
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to Question 1 the related persons as to which you are reporting and, where information is
requested about you or the private funds you advise, respond as though you and such related
persons were one firm.
3.
How is Form PF organized?
Section 1 – All Form PF filers
Section 1a
All private fund advisers required to file Form PF must complete Section 1a.
Section 1a asks general identifying information about you and the types of private
funds you advise.
Section 1b
All private fund advisers required to file Form PF must complete Section 1b.
Section 1b asks for certain information regarding the private funds that you
advise.
Section 1c
All private fund advisers that are required to file Form PF and advise one or more
hedge funds must complete Section 1c. Section 1c asks for certain information
regarding the hedge funds that you advise.
Section 2 – Large hedge fund advisers
Section 2a
You are required to complete Section 2a if you and your related persons,
collectively, had at least $1.5 billion in hedge fund assets under management as of
the last day of any month in the fiscal quarter immediately preceding your most
recently completed fiscal quarter. You are not required to include the regulatory
assets under management of any related person that is separately operated.
Subject to Instruction 4, Section 2a requires information to be reported on an
aggregate basis for all hedge funds that you advise.
Section 2b
If you are required to complete Section 2a, you must complete a separate
Section 2b with respect to each qualifying hedge fund that you advise.
However:
if you are reporting separately on the funds of a parallel fund structure that, in the
aggregate, comprises a qualifying hedge fund, you must complete a separate
Section 2b for each parallel fund that is part of that parallel fund structure (even
if that parallel fund is not itself a qualifying hedge fund); and
if you report answers on an aggregated basis for any master-feeder arrangement
or parallel fund structure in accordance with Instruction 5, you should only
complete a separate Section 2b with respect to the reporting fund for such master-
feeder arrangement or parallel fund structure.
Section 3 – Large liquidity fund advisers
Section 3
You are required to complete Section 3 if (i) you advise one or more liquidity
funds and (ii) as of the last day of any month in the fiscal quarter immediately
preceding your most recently completed fiscal quarter, you and your related

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