Bridgewater's 13F Filings: How to Find and Read Them

Bridgewater Associates files its 13F under CIK 0001350694, registered with the SEC as Bridgewater Associates, LP. Like any institutional manager with over $100 million in qualifying securities, it has to report its US long equity and option positions every quarter, and you can look up every filing it has made on EDGAR or pull the data directly by CIK.

This guide covers where to find Bridgewater's 13F filings, what the form does and does not tell you about the firm, and how to query the data instead of parsing each filing's XML yourself.

Bridgewater's EDGAR filer details

Bridgewater Associates registers its 13F filings with the SEC under a single CIK. These are the identifying details as recorded on EDGAR:

Bridgewater has filed 13F-HR reports under this CIK since at least 2007, each one a quarterly snapshot of its reportable US positions.

Why Bridgewater has to file a 13F

Section 13(f) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 requires any institutional investment manager that exercises investment discretion over $100 million or more in "Section 13(f) securities" to file Form 13F each quarter. Bridgewater Associates is one of the largest such managers in the world by assets under management, so it has filed a 13F every quarter since it first crossed that threshold.

The requirement applies to the manager, not to any single fund it runs. A firm like Bridgewater, which manages money across several strategies and vehicles, reports its aggregate reportable holdings as one filer, not fund by fund.

Where to find Bridgewater's 13F filings on EDGAR

You can browse every Bridgewater 13F-HR directly on SEC EDGAR company search by entering CIK 0001350694 and filtering by form type 13F-HR. Each result links to a filing index page with the information table (the actual holdings) and the cover page (the manager's name, the quarter, the number of holdings and total value) as separate documents.

That works well for looking at one quarter at a time. It is slower if you want to compare quarters, search by security instead of by manager, or pull the data into a spreadsheet or a script, because EDGAR serves the information table as XML, not as rows.

What a Bridgewater 13F filing contains

Every 13F-HR has two parts, and Bridgewater's filings follow the same structure as any other manager's:

• The cover page, naming the filer, the period of report, whether it is the manager's own filing or filed on behalf of others, and summary counts.
• The information table, listing every qualifying position: issuer name, CUSIP, share class, value, number of shares, put or call flag, investment discretion, and how voting authority over those shares is split between sole, shared and none.

Because Bridgewater reports as a single filer, its information table lists every US listed stock, ETF and qualifying option position held across its reportable strategies as one combined list, not broken out by fund.

What Bridgewater's 13F does not show

A 13F is a useful but partial window into any manager, and that is especially true for Bridgewater:

1. No short positions. 13F only requires long positions in qualifying securities, so a manager with significant short exposure elsewhere reports none of it here.
2. Only Section 13(f) securities. This covers mostly US exchange listed stocks, some ETFs, listed options and certain convertible securities. It excludes most bonds, currencies, interest rate instruments, commodities and non-US listed securities.
3. It is a quarter-end snapshot, delayed by up to 45 days. Positions can change materially between quarter end and the filing date.
4. It covers a fraction of a global macro manager's book. Bridgewater is widely known for macro strategies that trade currencies, interest rates and derivatives well outside what Section 13(f) requires it to disclose. Its 13F shows the firm's qualifying US equity exposure, not its overall portfolio or strategy.

Treat Bridgewater's 13F the same way you would treat any manager's: a partial, delayed disclosure of one slice of the business, not a full picture of what the firm is doing.

Pull Bridgewater's 13F filings with the SecFeed API

SecFeed parses every 13F-HR filing into structured fields, so you can query a manager's full history by CIK instead of opening each filing. To get Bridgewater's cover pages across quarters:

curl "https://secfeedapi.com/v1/form-13f?cik=1350694" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY"

The response wraps each filing's full cover page data with its filing metadata:

{
  "accessionNo": "0001567619-26-xxxxxx",
  "formType": "13F-HR",
  "filedAt": "2026-08-13",
  "cik": "1350694",
  "companyName": "BRIDGEWATER ASSOCIATES, LP",
  "flat": {
    "manager": "Bridgewater Associates, LP",
    "period": "06-30-2026",
    "reportType": "13F HOLDINGS REPORT",
    "isAmendment": false
  }
}

To get the actual positions for a given quarter, query the holdings endpoint by CIK and period:

from secfeed import Client

sf = Client("YOUR_API_KEY")
rows = sf.holdings_13f(cik="1350694", period="06-30-2026")
for r in sorted(rows, key=lambda r: r["value"], reverse=True)[:10]:
    print(r["issuer"], r["cusip"], r["shares"], r["value"])

Each row carries the issuer, CUSIP, share class, value, share count, voting authority split, and put or call flag, the same fields documented for the 13F holdings endpoint. Query the same CIK across several period values to see what changed from one quarter to the next: new positions, exits, and share count changes for positions Bridgewater kept.

How to compare Bridgewater to other large managers

Bridgewater's CIK only returns Bridgewater's own filings. If you want to see who else holds a given stock, or compare Bridgewater's position in a name against other managers, query the same holdings endpoint by CUSIP instead of by CIK, which returns every manager that reported holding that security for a given period. That is a different lookup direction covered in our guide to 13F filings and hedge funds and in 13F data formats and history.

For the general mechanics of reading any 13F filing, including the deadline schedule and the full field list, see what a 13F filing is and how to read it. The 13F search guide covers finding filings by manager name instead of CIK when you do not already know it, and the Form 13F API product page documents every parameter the endpoints above accept.

Frequently asked questions

What is Bridgewater Associates' CIK on EDGAR?

Bridgewater Associates, LP files under CIK 0001350694. You can use this CIK to browse its filings on EDGAR or to query its 13F history by cik through an API.

How often does Bridgewater file a 13F?

Every calendar quarter, within 45 days of quarter end, the same schedule every institutional manager that crosses the $100 million threshold must follow.

Does Bridgewater's 13F show its whole portfolio?

No. It only shows Bridgewater's qualifying US long equity, ETF and listed option positions. It excludes short positions, most bonds, currencies, interest rate and commodity derivatives, and non-US listed holdings, which make up a large part of Bridgewater's macro strategies.

Can I see Bridgewater's 13F amendments?

Yes. Amendments are filed as 13F-HR/A under the same CIK and can add, correct or restate positions from an earlier quarter. Always check for an amendment before treating an original filing as final.

Is Bridgewater's 13F data free to access?

Yes. All 13F filings, including Bridgewater's, are public records on SEC EDGAR at no cost. Services like SecFeed charge for parsing the XML into structured, queryable rows rather than for the underlying data.