The Securities and Exchange Commission recently adopted significant changes to Rule 35d-1 under the Investment Company Act of 1940 (Names Rule), as well as certain forms and disclosure requirements on September 20, 2023...more
12/6/2023
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Over the last six months, artificial intelligence (AI) has captured the public imagination in a way it never has before. A new generation of AI-powered language models make use of a deep learning architecture known as a...more
4/27/2023
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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit has affirmed the lower court’s trial ruling in the Section 36(b) lawsuit, Obeslo v. Great-West Capital Management, LLC et al.1 The ruling comes at the tail end of a wave of...more
On March 25, 2020, the Securities and Exchange Commission issued two orders updating and extending relief previously provided to registered funds and investment advisers whose operations may be affected by the COVID-19...more
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (Federal Banking Agencies) on December 27, 2019 provided temporary relief from...more
2/10/2020
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The staff of the Division of Investment Management of the Securities and Exchange Commission (Staff) issued a no-action letter on July 9, 2019 regarding multi-manager exemptive relief for registered open-ended investment...more
The Chairman of the Financial Services Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives, Jeb Hensarling (R-TX), on April 19, 2017 released an updated discussion draft of the Financial CHOICE1 Act (Bill), and the Committee held...more
5/1/2017
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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s Division of Investment Management (the “SEC Staff”) last night issued a no-action letter (the “Relief”) to Fidelity Management and Research Company that provides guidance to...more