What is a 13F filing?
Last checked 28 August 2026
A 13F is the quarterly report an institutional investment manager with more than $100 million in qualifying US assets must file with the SEC. It lists the positions held at the end of the quarter and is due within 45 days of the quarter ending — roughly mid-February, mid-May, mid-August and mid-November.
What does a 13F not tell you?
A great deal. It is a snapshot on one date, so a position bought and sold inside the quarter never appears. It covers long US equity positions only — no shorts, no bonds, no cash, and generally no foreign holdings. And it can be up to 45 days stale before you read it.
Why read them at all?
For direction and conviction over time. Watching a manager build or exit a position across several quarters says something a single filing cannot. The value is in the trend, not the snapshot.
Can you copy a 13F portfolio?
You can replicate what it shows, but you would be buying a picture of a portfolio as it stood up to 45 days ago, missing everything not required to be reported. Managers who trade actively are the ones a 13F describes worst.
How Tracked Money uses this
Tracked Money reads these filings and tells you when one lands — congressional PTRs, insider Form 4s, 13F changes, dark-pool prints and federal contract awards. Every figure links back to the document it came from. Tracked Money has not shipped on the App Store yet.
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Tracked Money tracks public STOCK Act and 13F disclosures. This page explains public rules and is not legal or investment advice. Regulatory details were verified on 28 August 2026 and can change.