What is SEC Form N-Q?
Mutual funds and other registered investment management companies must disclose their portfolio holdings on SEC Form N-Q under Section 30(b) of the Investment Company Act of 1940 and Sections 13(a) and 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Funds must file the form with the SEC within 60 days of the close of the first and third fiscal quarters of each year.
The purpose of these filings is to provide information to potential investors around whether a given index fund includes shares of a particular company or set of companies to which they might have ethical or religious objections.
The SEC may also apply the information provided on Form N-Q in its regulatory, disclosure review, inspection and policymaking roles. The fund’s principal executive and financial officers must sign and certify the information provided in the form, in accordance with Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.
Small business investment companies are exempt from filing SEC Form N-Q, and instead must file Form N-5. SEC Form N-Q must be filed electronically via the SEC’s EDGAR computer system for the receipt, acceptance, review and dissemination of documents submitted in electronic format to the SEC. It does not need to be delivered to shareholders. For support and additional information, explore our investment company compliance solutions.