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ICI’s Chief Compliance Officer (CCO) Committee consists of CCOs of ICI member firms. The Committee includes those persons who serve as a CCO of a fund, adviser, or both. The Committee provides a forum for its members to discuss and interact on a variety of issues relating to the CCO function in a fund complex.
Earlier today, ICI submitted the attached letter to Acting SEC Chairman Mark T. Uyeda requesting that the Commission further amend the Form N-PORT amendments adopted in August 2024 to: (i) eliminate the publication of each monthly Form N-PORT (including a fund's full portfolio...
A registered investment adviser recently settled charges with the Securities and Exchange Commission for: (1) misleading statements concerning the potential tax consequences to investors in certain target date funds; and (2) failing to adopt and implement written policies and...
On January 16, 2025, the staff of the Securities and Exchange Commission's Division of Investment Management issued guidance reminding registrants about their website disclosure requirements.
[36004] January 30, 2025 TO: ICI Members Chief Compliance Officer Committee Chief Information Security Officer Committee Chief Risk Officer Committee Global Information Security Officer Committee - London Global Information Security Officer Committee - Tokyo Operational Resiliency...
On January 21, 2025, ICI submitted a no-action request letter, available here, to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC or "Commission") to request that the staff of the Division of Trading and Markets ("Staff") confirm that it will not recommend that the Commission take...
The asset management industry faces an escalating battle against cybercriminals employing increasingly sophisticated tactics. From state-sponsored attacks to ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) platforms enabling low-skilled criminal infiltrations, the threat landscape is more complex than...
Several ICI member firms have reported receiving notifications from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) informing them that their funds' tax information was leaked as part of the "Littlejohn" data breach at the IRS. These notices state that a former IRS contractor "has been charged...
On January 23, 2025, the SEC published Staff Accounting Bulletin No. 122 (SAB 122)[1] which rescinds the interpretive guidance included in Section FF of Topic 5 (Topic 5.FF) in the Staff Accounting Bulletin Series entitled Accounting for Obligations to Safeguard Crypto-Assets an...
On January 16, 2025, the SEC announced that it settled charges against two registered investment advisers (the "Advisers"), for breaching their fiduciary duties by failing to reasonably address known vulnerabilities in their investment models and for related compliance and supervisory...
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