institutional-13flisted
Install: claude install-skill howard-lynn-ye/fin-skills
# Institutional 13F
**The 45-day deadline is the smaller half of the lag, and the number everyone quotes.** A
13F is a snapshot of a *quarter end*, filed up to 45 days later. A position opened on the
first day of that quarter is already 91 days old when the quarter closes. ✅ Measured below,
the median position is **82 calendar days old** at the moment its table becomes public, and
the p95 is **127**.
Everything marked ✅ Measured is printed by `scripts/thirteen_f.py` (numpy + pandas, seed
20260910, about 15 s, no network). Its holdings are **synthetic and seeded**. Everything
marked ✅ source-verified was read at the URL given, on 2026-09-10.
## 1. ✅ The rule, at primary sources
| Fact | Value | Source, read 2026-09-10 |
|---|---|---|
| **Deadline** | *"within 45 days after the last day of such calendar year"* and *"within 45 days after the last day of each of the first three calendar quarters"* | **17 CFR 240.13f-1(a)(1)** (eCFR); Form 13F General Instruction 1 |
| **Threshold** | accounts holding section 13(f) securities *"having an aggregate fair market value on the last trading day of any month"* of *"at least $100,000,000"* | 17 CFR 240.13f-1(a)(1) |
| 🚨 Threshold never indexed | the rule's own source credit starts **43 FR 26705, June 22, 1978** and the figure survives every amendment. The SEC's 2020 proposal said it would be raising it *"for the first time in 45 years, ... from $100 million to $3.5 billion"* | Rel. 34-89290 (`govinfo.gov`) |
| ⚠️ **The proposal was w