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Spillover Effects of Mandatory Portfolio Disclosures on Corporate Investment

Harvard Corporate Governance

mutual funds collectively managed assets worth $27 trillion, held about 32% of all U.S. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) requires mutual funds to provide the public with detailed information about their portfolio holdings and investment activities so mutual fund investors know how their money is being managed.

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SEC Chair Gensler Speaks on Trends in Asset Management

Reynolds Holding

Jack Bogle, the father of index funds, once said: “Don’t look for the needle in the haystack. In fact, each of the registered funds and private funds sectors surpasses the size of the banking sector. 2] Now turning to trends in asset management, I will discuss registered funds, private funds, and separately managed accounts.

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Why Markets Need More Information to Properly Monitor Banks

Reynolds Holding

Substantively, banks are pooled investment funds, like mutual funds, exchange traded funds, and so on: They take people’s money and use it to buy financial assets. In those other funds, losses are immediately passed on to investors. There is one crucial difference, however.

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Financial Institution Innovation Needed in Silicon Valley

Reynolds Holding

The distinctive elements would be (1) deposit commitments with a penalty for early withdrawal and (2) mutual stock ownership by depositors that zeros out upon early deposit withdrawal. Better than money market funds, this kind of bank would address the problem of enormous sums looking for safe storage within the financial system.

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SEC Chair Speaks Before the Investment Company Institute

Reynolds Holding

3] When I started at Goldman Sachs, there was lore about how the firm barely survived the crash, in part due to a closed-end fund, Goldman Sachs Trading Corp. 8] Registered investment funds have grown to more than $30 trillion, with more than 16,000 funds. [9] Money market funds came about in the early 1970s. [12]

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Ropes & Gray Discusses FinCEN Proposal to Extend Anti-Money Laundering Requirements

Reynolds Holding

Treasury Department, issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (“Proposed Rule”) that would extend certain anti-money laundering program requirements to: investment advisers registered (“RIAs”) with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”); and investment advisers that report to the SEC as exempt reporting advisers (“ERAs”).

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Deep Learning Mutual-Fund Risk Assessment and Performance

Reynolds Holding

These fluctuations substantially affected mutual funds, leading to fire sales of their assets and SEC scrutiny of their risk management. Investors responded quickly and withdrew more than $40 billion from mutual funds in the first two months of the pandemic.

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