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February 23, 2013 at 05:02 AM
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Norm Champ, director of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Division of Investment Management, said Friday that his division had launched an “IM Moving Ahead” initiative to assess where the division had “gaps” and to help the division identify its policy priorities.
Speaking at the SEC Speaks conference in Washington, sponsored by the Practising Law Institute, Champ (left) said teams were created to help the division’s “Moving Ahead” initiative pinpoint “common themes” and to then put together an “action plan.”
Having identified its priorities, Champ said his division’s “immediate” agenda will focus on three areas: money market fund reform as informed by the recent study performed by the SEC’s Division of Risk Strategy and Financial Innovation (RiskFin); following up on a February 2012 proposal regarding identify theft “red flags” by proposing a rule this year; and to “continue to work with the industry” on a valuation proposal for mutual funds.
SEC Commissioner Daniel Gallagher said during his remarks at the event that after being provided with RiskFin’s “rigorous study and economic analysis on money market funds that a bipartisan majority of the Commission asked for,” the SEC will “move forward shortly” with a rule proposal on further reforms to money market funds.
While not providing a timeline, Champ said other areas of focus for the division include drafting a rulemaking on a variable annuity summary prospectus and “working on” a rule to “codify some of the exemptive relief that’s out there” regarding exchange-traded funds.
Proposed amendments to rules under the Investment Advisers Act are also being mulled as since Dodd-Frank, the number of advisors to private funds that have registered with the agency have increased substantially. “Almost 40% of our advisors are advisors to private funds,” he said.
