The Global Directory of Fund-Manager Regulators

Nearly every diligence checklist a family office relies on is a checklist for a US manager. The SEC's adviser database, FINRA BrokerCheck, and EDGAR — the three tools every incumbent guide points to — cover firms registered or reporting in the United States and nothing else. A manager based in Frankfurt, Mumbai, or São Paulo doesn't show up in any of them, and the absence tells you nothing on its own. Private Capital Development built the reference the checklists skip: the regulator, and its live register, for eighteen jurisdictions.

The table below names the regulator and links directly to its register for every one of the 18. No jurisdiction in this edition's scope has been left out, and no regulator paid for inclusion or was offered placement. What the table cannot carry — what each register actually confirms, what it doesn't, and the specific blind spots a first-time searcher would hit — is in the directory itself.

Why we compiled it

No public register of registers existed to close this gap. The nearest thing — a checklist that even gestures at jurisdictions beyond the US — names one or two examples and stops. So we checked every register directly, on a stated date, and published what we found, including the ones we could not confirm, marked as such rather than dropped silently.

What the verification turned up

• Every one of the 18 regulators draws the same line. Not one makes any claim beyond current registration or licensing status — a clean result confirms a firm is registered where it says it is, and says nothing about investment merit. A family office reading more into a register search than that is reading past what the regulator itself claims.
• Five of the 18 jurisdictions require checking more than one register, not one search — the United States (SEC and FINRA are separate tools), the European Union (authorization and the cross-border marketing passport are two distinct registers), India (three separate SEBI registers, one per intermediary category), Canada (the national tool excludes Ontario, which keeps its own register), and Italy (one body registers the firm, a different one oversees conduct).
• Three of the 18 registers could not be independently confirmed live as of this edition, each for a stated, specific reason rather than a vague one: Canada, Italy, Indonesia.

The regulator to check, by region

Regulator names link directly to the register. "Confirmed live" reflects a direct fetch on 18 September 2026; where a register is flagged, the directory names the specific reason.

North America

South America

Europe

Middle East & Eurasia

Africa

Asia-Pacific

What the full directory adds

The table above answers which regulator and which register. The directory answers what a clean result actually confirms, what it doesn't, and where the tool has a blind spot a first-time searcher would otherwise discover the hard way — a jurisdiction a register silently excludes, a category that has to be picked correctly, a second query that's easy to miss. Every entry carries the date it was checked.

Download the directory — free, no charge for inclusion, no paid placement.

A deliberate scope decision

This edition covers the G20's constituent economies plus the European Union's cross-border marketing mechanic. China and Russia are excluded from this edition entirely — deliberately, by scope, not because a register could not be found. Russia is excluded from this directory as a matter of firm policy; that is a decision about where Private Capital Development works, not a finding about any institution.

Related reading

For the fuller walk-through of what a register check can and can't tell you before a first meeting, see Where to Look Up a Fund Manager If Not in the USA.

Corrections are welcome, and free

If a register has moved, a regulator's name has changed, or something here is simply wrong, tell us. Corrections carry no obligation of any kind and are folded into the next edition. Every entry is drawn from the regulator's own published material, and any regulator may correct its entry at any time by contacting us; the entries, and any judgment in them, remain ours.

Private Capital Development is a capital mobilization and brand-building firm — the bridge between fund managers and the institutional investors who allocate to them. We are not a placement agent, we do not sell securities, and we are not compensated on capital raised. Private Capital Development is not affiliated with, accredited to, or endorsed by the United Nations; the release timing marks the occasion and claims nothing more.