MFDF News Feed

April 17, 2025

The survey requests information which is considered to be proprietary; however, MPI commits to keeping all submissions confidential. The data provided is aggregated and individual names or complex-specific data will never be revealed.

April 16, 2025

Sara Crovitz and Miranda Sturgis, partners at Stradley Ronon, will discuss the opening months of the new administration and implications for fund directors.

April 15, 2025

The updated white paper outlines the risk management roles and duties of fund directors, discusses sample risk management program elements and practices, and provides an overview of specific areas of existing and emerging risks that impact the investment management industry.

April 14, 2025

The report offers findings relating to recruitment processes, sourcing candidates, candidate slates, and consideration of future recruitment.

April 11, 2025

The U.S. Senate voted 52-44 to confirm Paul Atkins to serve as the next Chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Issue areas he is likely to focus on include digital assets and cryptocurrency, ETF share class applications, private funds, and capital formation topics, among other areas.

April 10, 2025

The Complete Guide to ETF Portfolio Management is primarily written for portfolio managers of ETFs but the book’s coherent structure, plain language, and easy-to-follow examples can demystify for fund directors how these products work and the intricacies of managing their performance.

April 9, 2025

The discussion will focus on Broadridge's 2024 white paper that investigates the changes in fund costs across US, UK, Ireland, and Luxembourg over the last 10 years.

April 8, 2025

The SEC’s AI Roundtable was innovation oriented and technology-neutral throughout. The panelists focused on the potential risks of generative AI and discussed mitigating controls including human oversight, data management, sensitivity analysis and bias testing.

April 7, 2025

The webinar will address predictions for SEC and CFTC enforcement priorities, the impact of recent and anticipated changes in investigations and enforcement practices, and other fallout that regulated entities can expect as new leadership takes charge of these agencies.

April 3, 2025

On March 27, the SEC voted to abandon its prior defense of climate disclosure rules for public companies adopted in March 2024. Following its vote, the SEC sent a letter to the court that had consolidated the pending litigation that it was withdrawing its defense of the rules.

April 2, 2025

On Thursday, April 3 at 2:00pm ET, MFDF and Paul Felsch the Founder & Owner of compliance consulting firm Helios, plan to host a webinar titled “Protectors & Partners: Best Practices of Director Oversight of Fund Management and Selected Fund Service Providers.”

April 1, 2025

Ropes & Gray published a white paper and recorded a webinar outlining how fund groups can prepare for anticipated SEC exemptive relief. The paper notes several considerations fund complexes should consider prior to launching an ETF share class, which include, the fund board’s “best interest determination,” operational hurdles, and service provider requirements.

March 31, 2025

In his written testimony, Atkins noted that regulation should be “smart, effective, and appropriately tailored within the confines of the regulator’s statutory authority… clear rules of the road benefit all market participants.” His testimony emphasized that the role of the SEC should be to facilitate well-designed regulation, analyze effectiveness of regulation, and utilize the SEC’s enforcement arm to challenge illegal behavior.

March 27, 2025

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Division of Corporate Finance issued a no-action letter clarifying what “reasonable steps” means to verify an individual’s accredited investor status as required under amended Rule 506(c) of Regulation D under the Securities Act of 1933.

March 26, 2025

Panelists discussed the SEC leadership transition and what these changes mean for rulemaking, enforcement, and the Commission’s priorities. The panelists also share perspectives from their time at the SEC.

March 25, 2025

On March 14, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) issued a release that delays the compliance date for the amended Names Rule under Rule 35d-1 for six months.

March 24, 2025

In his address, Acting Chair Uyeda noted that the Commission desires a return to a rulemaking process that engages stakeholders and allows for a longer period of time to comment on rule proposals.

March 21, 2025

The Senate Banking Committee announced plans to hold a nomination hearing for Paul Atkins to serve as Chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Thursday, March 27 at 10:00am ET.

March 20, 2025

The report outlines current trends in the active ETF space and discusses “clones, siblings, and cousins,” definitions that connect similar established active mutual funds to ETF products.

March 19, 2025

In a press release the Commission noted it delayed compliance dates “by one year to Dec. 31, 2026, for eligible cash market transactions, and June 30, 2027, for eligible repo market transactions.”