On December 14, 2022, the SEC proposed the Order Competition Rule ("Proposal"), which would add proposed Rule 615 to Regulation National Market System ("Reg NMS"). The Proposal would require that individual investor orders be exposed to "qualified auctions," as established by proposed...
On December 14, 2022, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC or "Commission") issued a proposal ("Proposal") to update the disclosure required under Rule 605 of Regulation National Market System ("Reg NMS") that would: (1) expand the scope of entities subject to the rule; (2)...
On December 14, 2022, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC or "Commission") issued a proposal ("Proposal") to amend certain rules of Regulation National Market System ("Reg NMS") under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 ("Exchange Act") to adopt variable minimum pricing...
The 2022 Primary Layout and Instructions have been updated to account for the new "FATCA filing requirement" checkbox that has been assigned box number 11. Subsequently, Form 1099-DIV box numbers 11 through 15 have been renumbered 12 through 16, respectively.
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
Last week, the SEC adopted a new incentive-based compensation "clawback" rule (the "rule") and related amendments by a 3-2 vote. The final rule could require certain listed registered management investment companies ("funds") to adopt clawback policies as required by their exchanges...
Earlier this week, the Securities and Exchange Commission adopted amendments that will require open-end funds to (1) create and transmit summary shareholder reports highlighting key information to investors and (2) tag the contents of shareholder reports in a structured data language.
On October 25, ICI submitted the attached follow-up letter to SEC Chair Gary Gensler on the applicability of Rule 15c2-11 to fixed income securities, particularly to Rule 144A debt securities. ICI previously joined several industry associations last fall in submitting an initial...
In December 2020, the SEC adopted rule amendments that replaced the existing Investment Advisers Act advertising and cash solicitation rules for investment advisers and private funds with a single, combined "Marketing Rule." The new Marketing Rule does not apply to advertisements...
Earlier this week, ICI submitted supplemental comments (linked below) on the SEC's 2020 disclosure proposal for open-end funds ("funds"). On September 15, the SEC's Office of the Investor Advocate filed with the SEC a research paper on funds' choice of performance benchmarks and...
