SEC issues guidance update regarding enhanced mutual fund disclosure
Abstract
Purpose
To explain a guidance update recently issued by the USA Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Division of Investment Management that furthers the SEC’s goal of clear and concise, user-friendly disclosure by focusing on certain specified requirements of Form N-1A and the rules under the Securities Act of 1933.
Design/methodology/approach
Discusses five areas where the SEC staff had been providing significant numbers of comments related to mutual fund disclosure after the adoption of the amendments to Form N-1A in 2009 by summarizing the applicable instructions of Form N1-A and/or rule and the SEC staff’s observations with respect to such instruction or rule.
Findings
Funds should ensure that during their next annual update they review their prospectus disclosure in light of this guidance update and make necessary changes so that the disclosure is clear and concise and not overly technical.
Originality/value
A concise summary of the SEC’s guidance update from experienced investment management lawyers.
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Citation
Pugliese, D., Rosella, M. and Hearth, D. (2014), "SEC issues guidance update regarding enhanced mutual fund disclosure", Journal of Investment Compliance, Vol. 15 No. 4, pp. 11-14. https://doi.org/10.1108/JOIC-09-2014-0040
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
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