SEC Chairman Announces Further Extension of Compliance Date for Amendments to Form PF

SEC Chairman Paul Atkins has released a statement announcing that the SEC and Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) have further extended the compliance date for their February 2024 joint amendments to Form PF — that is, “the confidential reporting form for certain SEC-registered investment advisers to private funds, including those that also are registered with the CFTC as a commodity pool operator . . . or commodity trading adviser.” Previously, the compliance date was extended a number of times — from March 12, 2025, to June 12, 2025, then to October 1, 2025, and then by an additional year to October 1, 2026. The new compliance date will be July 1, 2027.

The primary purpose of the most recent extension is to give the SEC additional time to consider feedback on its April 2026 proposed amendments to Form PF (comments on this proposal were due by June 23, 2026). The extension is also aimed at either (1) helping Form PF filers avoid the burdensome costs of complying with certain provisions of the February 2024 amendments that may ultimately be amended or eliminated by the proposed amendments or (2) giving them enough time to comply with the amendments in the event that the proposal is not adopted “in whole or in part.”