SEC Approves New Rules to Address Run Risks in Money Market Funds
It is a dramatic understatement to describe 2023 as a busy year in the United States for asset management regulation. With 24 rules adopted and 18 new rules or rule amendments proposed, the US Securities and Exchange...more
Today, the Securities and Exchange Commission, by a vote of 3 to 2, approved amendments to Rule 2a-7 and other rules that govern money market funds under the Investment Company Act of 1940 (Amendments). Among other things,...more
The Securities and Exchange Commission’s Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations on November 7, 2019 issued a Risk Alert in which the OCIE staff (Staff) discussed “the most often cited deficiencies and weaknesses”...more
In a Risk Alert dated November 7, 2019, the SEC’s Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations reminded investment company advisers and boards that examiners are looking carefully at how firms approach and document the...more
Non-Enforcement - SEC Decides Against Mounting an Appeal in Koch Ruling - The July 2015 ruling by the D.C. Circuit Court in Koch v. SEC will apparently not be challenged by the SEC. The Court ruled in that...more
On September 22, 2015, the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) proposed a new rule and amendments to rules and reporting forms under the Investment Company Act of 1940 (the “1940 Act”), designed to standardize...more
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC or Commission) unanimously approved a proposal (Proposal) to modernize the reporting of information provided by registered investment companies (funds). Guided by the recent...more
The July 14, 2015 compliance date for certain new money market fund reporting and disclosure requirements adopted by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is quickly approaching. In particular, money market funds...more
On Wednesday, July 23, 2014, the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) adopted amendments to the rules governing money market mutual funds (or “money market funds”) pursuant to Rule 2a-7 under the Investment Company...more
The SEC recently adopted amendments to the rules governing MMFs. Most particularly, the amendments (i) require institutional prime and institutional tax-exempt MMFs to use a floating net asset value as opposed to allowing...more
On July 23, 2014, the Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC) adopted final rules governing the structure and operation of money market funds. These rules are discussed in a release adopting amendments to Rule 2a-7 under...more
The Commission issued its long discussed rules reforming money markets this week, requiring that institutional prime money market funds have a floating NAV. The vote was 3-2....more
Yesterday, a divided Securities and Exchange Commission adopted rules that will require floating net asset values (NAVs) for institutional money market funds and give most money market funds the discretion to impose liquidity...more