Fund Governance Content

On August 7, 2023, the Investment Company Institute and Independent Directors Council filed a joint comment letter in response to the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board's (PCAOB) proposed amendments to the auditing standards related to a company's noncompliance with laws and...

On 5 July, the Financial Stability Board (FSB) and International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) each published consultations on liquidity risk management in open-ended funds (OEFs). The FSB and IOSCO are accepting feedback on the consultations by 4 September.

The Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs released the Spring 2023 Unified Agenda of Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions on June 13, 2023. The agenda includes regulatory actions that the Securities and Exchange Commission and Commodity Futures Trading Commission expect to take...

At ICI's 2023 Leadership Summit, SEC Chair Gensler delivered remarks which focused on fund dilution and liquidity and how it relates to financial stability, outstanding SEC rule proposals related to money market funds and liquidity risk management, hard close, and swing pricing, and...

The Investment Company Institute and the Independent Directors Council invite your fund complex to participate in the ICI/IDC Directors Practices Study. The Directors Practices Study, conducted since 1996, collects and reports data on fund board practices and independent director...

The Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs released the Fall 2022 Unified Agenda of Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions on January 4, 2023. The agenda includes regulatory actions that the Securities and Exchange Commission and Commodity Futures Trading Commission expect to take...

​​​​​​​Commissioner Peirce recently delivered fund-related remarks, highlighting that each fund "is distinct from their investors, their asset managers, and the other funds in the same complex but that too often, funds' interests are treated as being identical to those of their...

On November 2, 2022, by a 3-2 vote, the SEC approved a proposal that would: amend Rule 22e-4 (the "liquidity rule"), which applies to open-end funds; require mutual funds to adopt swing pricing; and change all Form N-PORT filers' reporting obligations