13F Filing Dates 2024: Every Deadline, the Arithmetic, and What Changed

If you're verifying a 2024 Form 13F filing for an SEC exam, reconstructing an audit trail, or simply confirming that your compliance calendar was correct, this is the reference you need. The four 2024 deadlines are listed below with the day-of-week confirmed and the 45-day arithmetic made explicit, so you don't have to do the calendar check yourself.

Key takeaway: All four Form 13F filing dates for 2024 fell on weekdays. No roll-forward adjustments applied. That made 2024 a clean year, unlike 2026, which has two adjusted dates.

What Were the Form 13F Filing Dates for 2024?

The four Form 13F filing deadlines for calendar year 2024 were February 14, May 15, August 14, and November 14. The statutory rule under Rule 13f-1(a)(1) is 45 calendar days after each calendar quarter-end. When that 45th day lands on a weekend or federal holiday, it rolls to the next business day. In 2024, it never did.

The SEC's own FAQ states this explicitly for the Q4 deadline: "The filing is due within 45 days after December 31, or, stated differently, by February 14 of the subsequent calendar year." That confirms February 14, 2024 for Q4 2023 holdings with no adjustment needed.

The 2024 13F Deadline Calendar: Arithmetic Verified

Three of the four deadlines landed on a Wednesday; the Q3 deadline landed on a Thursday. None required adjustment. If your 2024 compliance calendar showed any of these dates, it was correct as written.

For comparison, 2026 has two adjusted dates (February 17 and November 16). The full 2026 picture is covered in 13F Filing Deadlines 2026: Every Date, Rule, and Trap.

The EDGAR 5:30 p.m. ET Cutoff: The Trap Most Filers Miss

Filing at 5:31 p.m. ET on any of the four 2024 deadlines meant your 13F was technically late. EDGAR accepts submissions from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. ET on weekdays, but filings received after 5:30 p.m. ET receive the next business day's filing date, per the EDGAR Filer Manual.

Form 13F is not among the exceptions. Schedules 13D and 13G, Section 16 filings, and Rule 462(b) registration statements receive the actual submission date regardless of time. Form 13F does not get that treatment.

The practical consequence: a 13F submitted at 6:00 p.m. on August 14, 2024 would be recorded as filed August 15, 2024, one day late. Build your internal deadline around 5:00 p.m. ET to absorb EDGAR system delays, reviewer sign-offs, and last-minute submission errors.

Warning: The SEC's Form 13F Data Sets page confirms this cutoff directly: "Data contained in documents filed after 5:30PM Eastern on the last business day of a quarter will be included in the subsequent quarterly posting." The same logic applies to the filing date itself.

What Changed About Form 13F in 2024: The 2022 Amendments in Full Effect

2024 was the first full calendar year in which all of the June 2022 form amendments were fully operative for every filing. The SEC adopted these changes under Release No. 34-95148, effective January 3, 2023. By the time the February 14, 2024 deadline arrived, filers had been living with the new requirements for over a year, but the changes still caught some operations teams off guard.

Here is what was in effect for all four 2024 13F deadlines:

• Electronic confidential treatment requests only. Paper submissions for confidential treatment have not been accepted since February 28, 2023. Any manager still routing confidential treatment requests through a paper workflow in 2024 was non-compliant. Requests must be filed electronically on EDGAR.
• New Summary Page checkbox. The amended form includes a checkbox indicating that a confidential treatment request accompanies the filing. Missing it is a form deficiency.
• Additional identifiers required. Managers must report their Central Registration Depository (CRD) number and SEC file number if applicable.
• FIGI as an optional identifier. The Financial Instrument Global Identifier can now be reported alongside, but not instead of, the CUSIP number. Operations teams building or updating EDGAR XML workflows needed to account for this field.
• Dollar-level rounding. Values are rounded to the nearest dollar, not the nearest $1,000 as under the prior rule. This sounds minor but affects XML construction and any downstream reconciliation against prior filings.

The SEC FAQ is staff guidance, not a binding rule. As the FAQ itself notes, it "represent[s] the staff's views" and "the Commission has neither approved nor disapproved this information." For definitive obligations, the underlying statute and rules govern.

February 14, 2024: A Dual Deadline for 13F and Form 13H

February 14, 2024 was not just the Q4 2023 Form 13F deadline. It was also the annual update deadline for Form 13H large trader reports.

Form 13H uses the same 45-days-after-year-end arithmetic. Large traders, defined as those effecting transactions in National Market System securities of 2 million shares or $20 million during any calendar day, or 20 million shares or $200 million during any calendar month, must file an annual update within 45 days after December 31. For calendar year 2023, that annual update was due February 14, 2024, the same day as the Q4 2023 Form 13F.

Managers subject to both obligations needed two separate EDGAR submissions on the same day. Compliance calendars that flagged only the 13F deadline missed the 13H requirement.

Amended Form 13H must also be filed promptly at the end of any calendar quarter in which the information becomes inaccurate, per Day Pitney's 2026 compliance calendar, which documents the same arithmetic for 2026.

The November 14, 2024 Deadline and the Schedule 13G Change

The November 14, 2024 deadline carried an additional obligation that most 13F-focused compliance teams did not see coming: the first quarterly Schedule 13G assessment under the September 2024 amendments.

The SEC's Schedule 13G amendments became effective September 30, 2024. Under the new regime, qualified institutional investors must assess at the end of each calendar quarter whether an initial Schedule 13G filing obligation arises and whether an amendment is required for any material change from the prior filing. Previously, this assessment happened annually.

As Day Pitney describes the change: "Qualified institutional investors are required to assess whether an initial Schedule 13G filing obligation arises and whether an amendment to a previous filing is required, to the extent of any 'material change' from the prior filing, at the end of each calendar quarter, as opposed to the end of each calendar year."

This aligned Schedule 13G quarterly assessment deadlines with 13F deadlines starting with the Q3 2024 assessment. November 14, 2024 was the first date on which this new quarterly obligation applied. Schedule 13G is also now required to be filed using structured, machine-readable data language under the same amendments.

Managers holding 5% or more beneficial ownership in a registered equity security who are also 13F filers faced a dual obligation on November 14, 2024. If your compliance team only tracked the 13F deadline that day, the 13G assessment may have been missed.

Did Form SHO (Rule 13f-2) Apply in 2024?

No. Form SHO created zero filing obligations during calendar year 2024. But 2024 was the year every manager with significant short positions needed to be preparing.

The SEC adopted Rule 13f-2 in October 2023, with an original effective date of January 2, 2025. The rule requires institutional investment managers meeting certain short-position thresholds to file Form SHO monthly, within 14 calendar days after each calendar month-end. Throughout 2024, the rule was adopted but not yet live.

The preparation window turned out to be shorter than it looked. The SEC released the technical standards for Form SHO compliance on December 16, 2024, immediately before the holidays. In February 2025, the SEC granted a temporary exemption, pushing the first Form SHO deadline to February 17, 2026. As SEC Acting Chairman Mark Uyeda stated at the time: "This exemption gives filers more time to implement the technical updates required for compliance according to standards that were released only on Dec. 16, 2024, immediately prior to the holidays."

Skadden noted during this period that "industry participants have highlighted certain ambiguities and compliance questions regarding the scope of Rule 13f-2," signaling that even sophisticated managers needed legal counsel to determine whether they were in scope.

The bottom line for 2024: no Form SHO filings were due, but managers with significant short positions should have been building systems and engaging counsel throughout the year. Those who waited until December 2024 found themselves scrambling.

For the current Form SHO picture, see 13F Filing Deadlines 2026: Every Date, Rule, and Trap.

Who Was Required to File Form 13F in 2024?

The filing obligation applies to institutional investment managers exercising investment discretion over $100 million or more in Section 13(f) securities, per Section 13(f)(1) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Two distinctions matter here.

The threshold is not total AUM. It applies specifically to Section 13(f) securities: exchange-traded equities, certain equity options and warrants, shares of closed-end investment companies, and certain convertible debt securities. A manager with $300 million in total AUM but only $90 million in Section 13(f) securities does not file. The threshold is measured by aggregate fair market value on the last trading day of any month of any calendar year. Crossing it in a single month triggers the filing obligation for the subsequent calendar year.

Foreign managers are not exempt. A non-U.S. asset manager that uses any means or instrumentality of U.S. interstate commerce and exercises investment discretion over $100 million or more in Section 13(f) securities must file. Many non-U.S. managers with U.S. equity exposure assume the obligation does not reach them. It does.

Governmental entities, including municipal pension funds and sovereign wealth funds, are also institutional investment managers for 13F purposes. The SEC FAQ is explicit that "person" includes "a natural person, company, government, or political subdivision, agency, or instrumentality of a government."

For a full walkthrough of the threshold mechanics and what counts as investment discretion, see How to File Form 13F.

How to Verify a 2024 13F Filing Was Timely

If you're reconstructing a 2024 audit trail or preparing for an SEC exam, here is the verification sequence:

1. Pull the EDGAR filing record. Search EDGAR for the manager's CIK number and filter for 13F-HR filings. The filing date shown is the date EDGAR received the submission before 5:30 p.m. ET.
2. Compare against the four 2024 deadlines. February 14, May 15, August 14, November 14. No roll-forwards applied, so these are the hard dates.
3. Check the filing time. If the EDGAR record shows the filing date as the day after the deadline, the submission was received after 5:30 p.m. ET on the deadline date and is technically late.
4. Review the form version. All 2024 filings must use the amended form (effective January 3, 2023): EDGAR XML Technical Specification, dollar values rounded to the nearest dollar, FIGI field present if used, CRD and SEC file numbers reported if applicable.
5. Confirm confidential treatment requests were filed electronically. Any paper confidential treatment request submitted after February 28, 2023 is non-compliant. Check the EDGAR record for a separate confidential treatment filing if the Summary Page checkbox was marked.
6. Check for a Form N-PX obligation. Institutional investment managers that file Form 13F should also consider Form N-PX obligations, which require annual disclosure of proxy votes on executive compensation matters. This is a related filing that 13F-focused deadline reviews often miss.

If a 2024 filing was late, an amendment does not erase the original lateness. The SEC's enforcement posture on 13F delinquency has intensified: Nixon Peabody noted in October 2024 that recent enforcement actions brought a number of previously unaware managers into compliance. Late filings can result in SEC enforcement actions and penalties. Amending the filing to correct errors is still the right step, but it does not cure a timeliness violation.

FAQ: 13F Filing Dates 2024

How often are 13F reports filed? Quarterly. Four times per year, within 45 calendar days after each calendar quarter-end (March 31, June 30, September 30, and December 31).

How delayed are 13F filings? Up to 45 calendar days after quarter-end. A filing covering holdings as of September 30, 2024 was not due until November 14, 2024, meaning the data is always at least six weeks stale by the time it is public.

When were the 2024 13F filings released publicly? Form 13F is public immediately upon filing. The SEC's quarterly 13F data sets, which aggregate all filings into structured datasets, were published following each of the four 2024 deadlines, per the SEC's Form 13F Data Sets page.

Did any 2024 13F deadline fall on a weekend or holiday? No. All four 2024 deadlines fell on weekdays (three Wednesdays and one Thursday), so no roll-forward adjustments applied.

What format was required for 2024 13F filings? EDGAR XML Technical Specification only. The text-based ASCII format was discontinued on May 20, 2013. Paper submissions are not accepted.

Are 13F filings public? Yes, immediately upon filing. Confidential treatment can be requested for specific holdings under FOIA Exemption 4, but the request itself must be filed electronically on EDGAR and is subject to SEC review.