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Mutual fund firms and other registered investment companies with a fiscal year that ended June 30 are busy filing the new Form N-CEN with the Securities and Exchange Commission, as the deadline to do so kicked in on Thursday.
As of Tuesday, 144 of these investment companies have filed Form N-CEN with the securities regulator.
The SEC also announced on Sept. 11 XML schema changes for Form N-PORT and N-CEN that take effect Oct. 1.
Form N-CEN requires registered investment companies, other than "face-amount certificate companies," to annually report certain census-type information to the Commission in a structured data format.
The filing date for Form N-CEN depends on the filers' fiscal year-end. Form N-CEN should be filed not later than 75 days after the close of the fiscal year for which the report is being prepared, the SEC states.
The SEC adopted a temporary final rule in February requiring funds in larger fund groups (i.e., fund groups with $1 billion or more in net assets) to maintain in their records the information that is required to be included in Form N-PORT, in lieu of filing reports with the commission, until April 1, 2019.
