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Weekly Roundup: July 8-14, 2022

Harvard Corporate Governance

The Proposed SEC Climate Disclosure Rule: A Comment from Jon Lukomnik and Keith Johnson. The Proposed SEC Climate Disclosure Rule: A Comment from Scott Hirst. The Proposed SEC Climate Disclosure Rule: A Comment from the Business Roundtable. SEC Requests Comment on Regulation of Information Providers Under the U.S.

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Prudential Property Value: Our Efforts to Ensure Transparency and Consistency

IVSC

The European Banking Authority (EBA) provided a first indication through its Policy Advice of 2 August 2019 that the Basel III requirements: Will no longer allow institutions to solely apply a Market Value concept.

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SEC Chair Gensler Issues Statement on Request for Comment on “Information Providers”

Reynolds Holding

Today [June 15], the Commission voted to issue a request for comment to help determine which “information providers,” such as index providers, model portfolio providers, and pricing services, might come under the Commission’s definition of an investment adviser. Model portfolio providers and pricing services have similarly grown and evolved.

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Arnold & Porter Discusses More Labor Department Changes to Retirement-Plan Fiduciary Rules

Reynolds Holding

Expanded Conduct Subject to Fiduciary Standards Since 1975, a person providing “investment advice” to a plan is an “investment advice fiduciary” only if the advice satisfies all prongs of a five-part test (in contrast to a fiduciary with discretionary investment authority who is automatically a fiduciary).

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Timeless Wisdom

Chris Mercer

I commented on Chad’s post and repeat my effort at timeless advice now for younger (or older) professionals of every stripe. Mark Twain: “The secret of getting ahead is getting started.” Chad offered up a quote of his own, and the entire post (it is short) is a great read.

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DOL Finalizes Prohibited Transaction Exemption for Investment Advice Fiduciaries

ThomsonReuters

Prohibited Transaction Exemption 2020-02, Improving Investment Advice for Workers & Retirees, 85 Fed. The DOL has finalized its prohibited transaction exemption (PTE) allowing investment advice fiduciaries to receive reasonable compensation and engage in certain principal transactions, including as part of a rollover to an IRA.

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Cooley Discusses Ruling Against SEC on Non-Enforcement of Proxy Adviser Rules

Reynolds Holding

In July 2020, the SEC adopted new amendments to the proxy rules regarding proxy advisory firms, codifying the SEC’s interpretation that made proxy voting advice subject to the proxy solicitation rules. To revise or suspend a regulation, NAM asserted, the APA required the SEC to engage in the notice-and-comment process.