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SEC Drops Swing Pricing, Adopts Amendments to Form N-PORT and N-CEN and Issues Guidance on Open-End Fund Liquidity Risk Management...

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Who may be interested: Registered Investment Companies; Boards of Directors; Investment Advisers; Compliance Officers; Fund Administrators- Quick Take: In its August 28, 2024, open meeting, the SEC amended fund reporting...more

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SEC Settles Charges Against Adviser for Improperly Splitting Legal Fees

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Who may be interested: Registered Investment Companies; Boards of Directors; Investment Advisers - Quick Take: The SEC settled charges against an investment adviser for allegedly entering into an improper legal...more

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SEC Staff Publish New Registered Fund Statistics Report

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Who may be interested: Registered Investment Companies; Boards of Directors; Investment Advisers - Quick Take: The staff of the SEC’s Division of Investment Management (“Staff”) has published a new report entitled...more

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SEC Staff Denies Closed-End Fund’s No-Action Request Seeking to Exclude Shareholder Proposal to Declassify Board

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Who may be interested: Closed-End Funds; Boards of Directors; Investment Advisers - Quick Take: The staff of the SEC’s Division of Investment Management (Staff) recently denied a closed-end fund’s request for no-action...more

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Seward & Kissel Advises Guinness Atkinson on the Submission of an Application to Offer ETF Share Classes of its Existing Mutual...

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Who may be interested: Registered Investment Companies; Boards of Directors; Investment Advisers - Quick Take: Guinness Atkinson Funds, with the counsel of Seward & Kissel, has submitted an application seeking an exemptive...more

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SEC Staff Issues No-Action Letter to Closed-End Funds Seeking to Exclude Activist Shareholder Proposals to Declassify Board

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Who may be interested: Closed-End Funds; Boards of Directors; Investment Advisers - Quick Take: The staff of the SEC’s Division of Investment Management (Staff) recently granted no-action relief to three closed-end funds...more

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SEC Proposes Update to Definition of Qualifying Venture Capital Fund

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Who may be interested: Boards of Directors, Investment Advisers, Compliance Staff - Quick Take: The SEC proposed Rule 3c-7 under the 1940 Act, which would inflation adjust the dollar threshold for a fund to meet the...more

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SEC Settles with Sixteen Firms for Charges of Widespread Recordkeeping Failures

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Who may be interested: Registered Investment Advisers, Broker-Dealers, Registered Investment Companies, Boards of Directors - Quick Take: The SEC recently settled charges against sixteen firms, including five...more

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SEC Provides Guidance on Determining Investment Company Status in SPAC Rule Release

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Who may be interested: Registered Investment Companies, SPACs, Investment Advisers Quick Take: Following a 3-2 vote, the SEC adopted final rules to enhance disclosure and provide additional investor protections in IPOs by...more

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Is "Degrowth" About To Grow?

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In reason years, many companies and some investors have embraced ESG (environmental, social and governance) objectives.  The move to embrace ESG has led to an "escalating backlash" according to The Conference Board.   Now,...more

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SEC Staff Grants No-Action Relief Under Section 17 and Rule 17d-1 Thereunder Allowing Fund to Enter Transaction Agreement with New...

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Who may be interested: Registered Investment Companies; Boards of Directors; and Investment Advisers. Quick Take: The staff of the SEC Division of Investment Management (Staff) recently issued a no-action letter stating...more

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SEC Adopts Amendments to the Fund “Names Rule”

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Who may be interested: Registered Investment Companies, Investment Advisers, Boards of Directors - Quick Take: The SEC recently adopted1 amendments (Amendments) to Investment Company Act Rule 35d-1, the fund “Names Rule.”...more

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SEC Charges 11 Firms with Widespread Recordkeeping Failures

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Who may be interested: Registered Investment Advisers, Broker-Dealers, Registered Investment Companies, Boards of Directors - Quick Take: The SEC recently settled charges against ten broker-dealers and one dually...more

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Quant Firm Applies to Issue ETF Share Classes in Mutual Funds

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Dimensional Fund Advisors LP ("Dimensional"), a quantitative investment firm, recently filed an application for exemptive relief ("Application") with the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC"), seeking permission to offer...more

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Investment Management Update - August 2023

Closed-End Fund Activism Update - Activist investors continue to take large positions in closed-end funds and engage in disruptive activity that may be harmful to long-term shareholders of retail closed-end funds. This...more

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The SEC's Proposed Cybersecurity Rules: Regulatory Delay Does Not Bless Standing By

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The SEC’s Cybersecurity Proposals - The SEC has proposed four rules designed to address cybersecurity risk and management, including incident reporting by public companies....more

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SEC Announces Insider Trading Charges Against Thirteen Defendants in Four Separate Complaints

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Who may be interested: Boards of Directors, Investment Advisers, compliance staff. Quick Take: The SEC recently filed complaints charging thirteen defendants with insider trading in four unrelated fraudulent trading...more

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SEC Releases Staff Bulletin on Differential Advisory Fee Waivers

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Who may be interested: Investment Advisers, Mutual Fund Boards of Directors - Quick Take: The SEC staff recently issued a bulletin to highlight the requirements of Section 18 of the Investment Company Act of 1940 (1940...more

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Nutter Securities Enforcement Update: January 1, 2023

The Nutter Securities Enforcement Update is a periodic summary of noteworthy recent securities enforcement activity, settlements, decisions, and charges. ...more

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Crosscurrents: J.S. Held’s Environmental, Social & Governance Observations (Fiduciary Duties Become Political)

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The Attorneys General for both Indiana and Louisiana have issued opinions that environmental, social, and governance (ESG) criteria violate the fiduciary duty owed to corporate investors absent full disclosure of the use of...more

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Regulatory Update and Recent SEC Actions - October 2022

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REGULATORY UPDATES - SEC Announces Leadership Changes - Anthony (“Tony”) C. Thompson was appointed to a second term as a board member of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (“PCAOB”), which will run until...more

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A Summary of Certain Proxy Advisory Firm and Institutional Investor Board Diversity Policies

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Institutional investors and proxy advisory firms continue to develop and refine their policies regarding board diversity. While gender diversity on public company boards has been in focus for some time now, institutional...more

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LPL AWC Proves, Once Again, That Big Firms Can Buy Their Way Out Of Trouble That Would Kill Small Firms

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LPL may be the biggest BD in the country, with 21,500 reps operating out of almost 13,000 branch offices. Heaven knows how much money it brings in every year, but, goodness, it must be a lot. And good thing, too, given how...more

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SEC modernizes valuation practices

On December 3, 2020, the Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC) adopted new rule 2a-5 (Rule 2a-5) under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the 1940 Act), which establishes a framework for fund valuation...more

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UPDATE: SEC Extends Relief for In-Person Meetings of Fund Boards Through December 31, 2020

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On Friday, June 19, 2020, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") issued an order (the "Order") under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the "1940 Act"), extending the duration of...more

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