Compliance | October 26th, 2023 New House Speaker Mostly Unknown to Retirement Industry Industry advocates have very little to say about Mike Johnson, good or bad, but another budget showdown could reveal his...
Compliance | October 10th, 2023 Retirement Industry Calls On SEC to Withdraw Proposal on AI, Conflicts of Interest The proposal would limit the availability of educational and retirement readiness tools for participants, commenters say.
Compliance | September 29th, 2023 Personal Device Use Costs 10 Broker, Adviser Firms $79M The fine was imposed by the SEC Friday for persistent and high-level failures to communicate on approved channels.
Compliance | September 29th, 2023 SEC to Allow RILAs to Register on Simplified Forms The proposal would streamline the registration and disclosure process for RILAs and highlight their unique features.
Compliance | September 26th, 2023 Mutual Fund Trustees Resist Aiding and Abetting Charges The SEC argues fund trustees assisted a mutual fund in dodging liquidity requirements by not acting to properly classify the...
Compliance | July 14th, 2023 Republicans Take Aim at Proxy Voting Firms Congressional Republicans allege that proxy firms give advice based on political preferences, not investors' financial interest.
Compliance | July 13th, 2023 Senate Appropriations Committee Advances Funding for SECURE 2.0 Lost and Found The committee’s spending bill appropriates $14 million for the creation of a retirement account database.
Compliance | July 12th, 2023 SEC Updates Gate Structure, Liquidity Fees for Money Market Funds The new rules are designed to increase MMF liquidity and protect investors from runs on the funds, starting in 2024.
Compliance | June 28th, 2023 House Republicans Call for More Transparency in ESG and Proxy Voting Republicans focus on the environmental aspect of ESG in a recently published report on Republican policy goals concerning investor activism.
Compliance | May 26th, 2023 Swing Pricing Protects Investors From Dilution, Gensler Says SEC Chairman Gary Gensler offered a spirited defense of the swing pricing proposal in a conversation with ICI’s Eric Pan.
Compliance | May 10th, 2023 Swing Pricing Proposal Should Be Defunded, House Republicans Say The chairman of the House Committee on Financial Services, Patrick McHenry, says the swing-pricing rule would hurt investors, especially because...
Compliance | May 8th, 2023 SEC Accuses Fund Adviser of Violating Liquidity Requirements Pinnacle Advisors helped a mutual fund dodge SEC liquidity requirements for at least a year, the SEC charges.
Compliance | May 5th, 2023 Amendments to SEC Custody Rule Would Expand Scope to More Asset Classes Many market actors are requesting an extension on the comment period, which ends Monday, to better analyze the proposal.
Compliance | April 20th, 2023 House Republicans Air SEC Grievances at Oversight Hearing The SEC proposal on swing pricing criticized for potential harm to retirement investors, especially those located in the West.
Compliance | March 28th, 2023 Congress, SEC Plan Separate Expansions of Electronic Disclosures Bipartisan legislation and an SEC proposal would make electronic disclosures under securities laws much more commonplace.
Compliance | March 21st, 2023 SEC Balances Competing Interests in Finalizing Cybersecurity Rule The SEC reopened the comment period on a cybersecurity rule which would require updated policies and prompt SEC notification of...
Compliance | March 14th, 2023 What the SEC is Scrutinizing in Its Marketing Rule Exams Industry experts and SEC officials discuss what plan sponsors should know about how the regulator will consider investment performance claims.
Compliance | March 10th, 2023 DOL Urged to Pursue Equal Opportunity Cases in Biden Budget Proposal The White House’s proposed fiscal 2024 budget would also increase budgets for the Social Security Administration and the IRS.
Compliance | March 6th, 2023 Gensler Defends SEC’s Climate Disclosure Rules at CII Conference The SEC chair explained that more market actors are using climate and greenhouse gas information in investment decision making, and...
Compliance | February 15th, 2023 Retirement Industry to SEC: Kill Swing Pricing Mandate Industry groups, including ERIC, SPARK and ICI, argue that a proposed mutual fund pricing rule popular in the EU would...