# CEF Radar

> Plain-words answers about U.S. closed-end funds, read from public filings at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission: whether a large investor is pushing for changes at a fund, whether the fund has announced something a holder must act on and by when, what the fund costs, how much it borrows and what it holds. Every fact carries its as-of date and a link to the original document. Written for holders aged 55 and over.

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This is information, not advice. Nothing here recommends buying or selling anything; every answer, feed entry and interface result says so.

## Pages
- [Is anyone targeting your fund?](https://cefradar.com/): The home page: type a ticker or a fund name; this week's notices and announcements; what is open to act on now.
- [Closed-end funds](https://cefradar.com/funds): Every fund we cover with who runs it, what it invests in, its yearly cost, borrowing and size; sort, filter, download.
- [One fund, e.g. JOF](https://cefradar.com/fund/JOF): The fund page, at /fund/ plus the ticker: is anyone targeting it, is there something to act on and by when, costs, borrowing, size, holdings, the dated timeline and every original document.
- [Funds run by one firm, e.g. Nuveen](https://cefradar.com/funds/run-by/nuveen): At /funds/run-by/ plus the firm's name in lower case with hyphens: one sponsor's funds with who is pushing for changes and what is open.
- [Funds of one kind, e.g. municipal bonds](https://cefradar.com/funds/type/municipal): At /funds/type/ plus the kind: the funds that invest in one kind of thing.
- [Investors we follow](https://cefradar.com/activists): The large investors who buy into closed-end funds and sometimes push for changes; how many funds each is in now.
- [One investor, e.g. Saba](https://cefradar.com/activist/saba): At /activist/ plus the investor's short name from the list: which funds it is in, where it is pushing for changes, what it usually does, its recent moves.
- [Dates to know](https://cefradar.com/calendar): Every open buy-back, shareholder vote, closing and offer of new shares with the date to act by; also as an iCalendar file at /calendar.ics.
- [Buy-back offers](https://cefradar.com/buy-backs): Funds offering to buy back shares now, and the offers of the last two years with their results; what to do when a letter about a buy-back comes in the post.
- [Shareholder votes](https://cefradar.com/votes): Funds with a shareholder vote coming up that could change what holders own, and the meetings of the last two years; what to do when voting papers come in the post.
- [Funds closing down or merging](https://cefradar.com/closing-down): Funds that are closing down, being folded into another fund, or no longer trade.
- [All recent activity](https://cefradar.com/filings): Every notice from a large investor and every fund announcement, newest first; one page per document at /filing/ plus the document number and /event/ plus the id.
- [Which funds hold](https://cefradar.com/holdings): Type a company or bond name and see every fund whose latest quarterly report lists it.
- [Learn](https://cefradar.com/learn): Plain-words guides built around what happens to a holder - a buy-back letter, voting papers, a large investor, a payout that is the holder's own money back, costs, a fund closing or merging, funds with an end date, the words in the letter - each with live examples from the filings.
- [How this works](https://cefradar.com/how-this-works): What we read at the regulator and how often, what we cannot see, the words we use, the plans.
- [Alerts](https://cefradar.com/alerts): A free e-mail when something is filed for a fund you name; one address, no password.

## Data
- [All funds as a spreadsheet file](https://cefradar.com/funds.csv): One row per closed-end fund: ticker, name, run by, invests in, exchange, yearly cost, management fee, borrowing, size, report dates, who is pushing for changes, page.
- [Fund announcements as a spreadsheet file](https://cefradar.com/events.csv): The dated announcements of the last 90 days (add ?since=YYYY-MM-DD for more): fund, kind, what, deadline, terms, source document.
- [One fund's history, e.g. JOF](https://cefradar.com/fund/JOF/history.csv): At /fund/ plus the ticker plus /history.csv: every notice, announcement, yearly and quarterly report of one fund as dated rows.
- [One investor's funds, e.g. Saba](https://cefradar.com/activist/saba/funds.csv): At /activist/ plus the short name plus /funds.csv: where the investor is in, where it has left, stakes and dates.
- [The JSON interface](https://cefradar.com/api): Every call under /api/v1 as a table, with the terms; 100 requests a day without a key.
- [OpenAPI description](https://cefradar.com/api/openapi.json): The machine-readable description of every JSON call.

## Assistant server (Model Context Protocol)
- [Server address](https://cefradar.com/mcp): Streamable HTTP: POST a JSON-RPC 2.0 request to this address, one at a time, no session, no key; 2,000 tool calls a day per address. Read-only. Every result is a plain-text block plus structured data with as_of dates and source_url links.
- [How to connect Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor](https://cefradar.com/for-developers): Copy-and-paste settings for each assistant, the tools, the limits.
- [Account address](https://cefradar.com/mcp/account): The same tools for an assistant that reads the site as a signed-in reader: it sends the reader to CEF Radar to sign in and press Allow (OAuth 2.1, PKCE, no client secret); a reader's API key works there too. For now it answers exactly as the free address.
- [search_funds (query)](https://cefradar.com/for-developers#tools): Find a fund.
- [get_fund (ticker)](https://cefradar.com/for-developers#tools): One fund: who is targeting it, what to act on, costs.
- [get_fund_events (ticker, months (optional))](https://cefradar.com/for-developers#tools): One fund's dated announcements.
- [get_fund_holdings (ticker)](https://cefradar.com/for-developers#tools): What a fund holds.
- [list_events (kind (optional), since (optional), only_open (optional))](https://cefradar.com/for-developers#tools): Recent announcements across funds.
- [list_activists (none)](https://cefradar.com/for-developers#tools): Large investors we follow.
- [get_activist (slug)](https://cefradar.com/for-developers#tools): One large investor.
- [latest_filings (days (optional), cef_only (optional))](https://cefradar.com/for-developers#tools): Newest notices from large investors.
- [which_funds_hold (query)](https://cefradar.com/for-developers#tools): Which funds hold a security.
- [Prompt check_my_fund (ticker)](https://cefradar.com/for-developers#tools): the three questions a holder has about one fund - is anyone targeting it, must I act by a date, what does it cost and borrow.

## Feeds
- [All fund announcements](https://cefradar.com/feed.xml): The newest 50 buy-backs, votes, closings, mergers and payout notices across every fund (Atom).
- [All recent activity](https://cefradar.com/filings/feed.xml): Notices from large investors and fund announcements, interleaved like the /filings page (Atom).
- [Dates to know](https://cefradar.com/calendar/feed.xml): Every open date to act by, soonest first (Atom).
- [Buy-back offers](https://cefradar.com/buy-backs/feed.xml): The site feed narrowed to buy-backs (Atom).
- [Shareholder votes](https://cefradar.com/votes/feed.xml): The site feed narrowed to shareholder votes (Atom).
- [Funds closing down or merging](https://cefradar.com/closing-down/feed.xml): The site feed narrowed to closings and mergers (Atom).
- [One fund, e.g. JOF](https://cefradar.com/fund/JOF/feed.xml): At /fund/ plus the ticker plus /feed.xml: its announcements and the notices about it (Atom).
- [One investor, e.g. Saba](https://cefradar.com/activist/saba/feed.xml): At /activist/ plus the short name plus /feed.xml: its notices and the fights over a vote it starts (Atom).

## Terms of reuse
- [Terms](https://cefradar.com/terms#licence): Data CC BY 4.0 with the credit line above; text all rights reserved; AI assistants may use the site provided the source is credited.
- [Privacy](https://cefradar.com/privacy): What we keep about alert subscribers; anonymous readers get no tracking cookies, no scripts and no third-party analytics (page views are counted in our own server logs, IP masked; a short-lived form-security cookie only on the alerts form).
- [robots.txt](https://cefradar.com/robots.txt): Everything public may be crawled; search engines and assistant crawlers share one allowed group.
- [Sitemap](https://cefradar.com/sitemap.xml): Every indexable page with its last-modified date.

## Optional
- [The full guide](https://cefradar.com/llms-full.txt): How to read a fund page, the glossary of plain words and formal terms, the JSON calls and the assistant tools with examples.
- [Accessibility](https://cefradar.com/accessibility): How the site is built for readers aged 55 and over.
- [Contact](mailto:hello@cefradar.com): The person who runs the site.