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September 04, 2013 at 10:04 AM
The House Financial Services Committee’s Capital Market Subcommittee plans to hold a hearing Sept. 18 on the Securities and Exchange Commission’s proposed rules governing money-market funds.
The SEC in early June proposed two alternative reforms to money funds.
First, to require that all institutional prime money-market funds operate with a floating net asset value (NAV). Second, to employ a “fees-and-gates” approach in which a nongovernment money fund imposes a 2 percent liquidity fee if the fund’s weekly liquid assets fall below 15 percent of its total assets.
SEC Chairwoman Mary Jo White (right) said at the time that the two reforms could be adopted separately or combined into a single reform package.
The coment period on the money-market fund proposal expires Sept. 17.
Other hearings to be held by the committee in September include:
