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Podcast: Federal Court Rejects Mutual Fund Fee Claims and Recognizes Market Realities
Thomson Reuters Session 2: Investment Management, Hedge Funds and Registered Mutual Funds: What's Happening Now?
Cole-Frieman & Mallon partner/co-founder Bart Mallon Discusses CFTC Regulation 4.5, the Volcker Rule & Other Compliance Issues
The Central Bank of Ireland (CBI) and the Securities and Futures Commission of Hong Kong (SFC) entered into a Memorandum of Understanding on 14 May 2025 establishing a framework for the mutual recognition of funds (MRF)...more
Over the past 25 years, the Cayman Islands has become a pre-eminent jurisdiction for the formation of alternative investment funds, with nearly 13,000 regulated open-ended funds and over 17,000 regulated closed-ended funds....more
“Tontines” are a very old form of investment, and there have been many variations. The basic idea is that the longest surviving investors in tontines will be credited with tontine assets attributable to investors who...more
BaFin veröffentlicht einen FAQ zur überarbeiteten ELTIF-Verordnung - Am 1. Februar 2024 hat die Bundesanstalt für Finanzdienstleistungsaufsicht (BaFin) ein FAQ zur am 10. Januar 2024 in Kraft getretenen, überarbeiteten...more
Deposit Insurance - Are the deposits at my bank FDIC-insured? Deposits held at FDIC-insured depository institutions are insured up to $250,000 per depositor for deposits held in the same “right and capacity.”...more
Requirement to appoint a Money Laundering Reporting Officer (“MLRO”) - Under the Anti-Money Laundering Regulations (Revised Edition 2020), as amended by the Anti-Money Laundering (Amendment) Regulations, 2022, and the...more
On August 16, 2022, the Resolution that amends the General Provisions applicable to mutual funds and their service companies (the "CUFI", and the resolution that amends it, the "Amendment") was published in the Federal...more
On 8 March 2022, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc. (FINRA) issued Notice to Members No. 22-08 (NtM 22-08) to “remind members of their sales practice obligations” for complex products and options and to...more
On Dec. 16, 2020, the U.S. Government Accountability Office (the GAO) issued a report to the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, the Department of the Treasury, the...more
Insurance and Investment Firms Breathe Easier - On December 4, 2019, the Financial Stability Oversight Council adopted final interpretive guidance on addressing systemic threats to the financial system that prioritizes the...more
Investors and investment managers around the globe are seeing increasing rules and regulations on how they can deploy their money, how they can advertise their services, and how they have to report to regulators. ...more
On Nov. 15, 2019, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve (the “Board”) released its semiannual Financial Stability Report. The report presents the Board’s current assessment of the resilience of the U.S. financial...more
Earlier this month, the leaders of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission released a joint statement reminding individuals...more
Since 2002, federal courts have refused to find that implied private rights of action exist under the Investment Company Act of 1940 (ICA). Last week, however, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit held...more
Last week, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) and its regulatory partners issued a joint statement in an effort to increase transparency around risk-focused Bank Secrecy Act/anti-money laundering supervision....more
Many of our financial services sector clients have indicated their need to keep track of updates on new laws and regulations amid a rapidly changing regulatory landscape in Hong Kong. ...more
• The Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief and Consumer Protection Act (the Act), which engendered substantial bipartisan support and was recently signed into law by President Donald Trump, amends parts of the Dodd-Frank Wall...more
Editor's Note - Consumer Finance 2017 Year in Review. Year 2017 brought leadership change at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), turnover at various regulatory agencies, the continued rise of state-level...more
The SEC’s Division of Enforcement announced a new cooperation initiative addressed to investment advisers who have failed to disclose conflicts arising from the receipt of 12b-1 fees from mutual funds. In essence, the...more
Top mutual fund firm The Vanguard Group, Inc. unveiled a plan last week to incorporate blockchain smart contract technology into some of its indexing operations beginning early next year. Vanguard’s initiative will be carried...more
Vanguard CEO William McNabb announced plans yesterday to step down, a big announcement for the mutual fund giant that finds itself “in the middle of one of the biggest growth spurts ever experienced by a large asset...more
Investors’ decreasing appetite for actively managed mutual funds appears to have helped drive the major shake-up at AllianceBernstein Holding, which said so long to CEO Peter Kraus and removed nine board members in favor of 6...more
On March 22, the Securities and Exchange Commission (“Commission”) adopted a rule amendment that shortens the time by which most securities transactions effected by a broker-dealer are required to settle. Under the amendment,...more
The SEC’s Division of Investment Management issued a no-action letter on January 11, 2017 explicitly permitting brokers to set their own commission rates for sales of so-called “clean shares” of mutual funds. Previously, as...more
SEC Issues Guidance on Mutual Fund Fee Structure - The Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) Division of Investment Management recently issued a guidance update addressing disclosure issues and certain procedural...more