While regulators continue pondering whether to impose more regulations on money market mutual funds, a number of financial institutions, including Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (GS), JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM), Fidelity Investments, BlackRock Inc. (BLK), Bank of New York Mellon Corp. (BK), Federated Investors Inc. (FII), and Charles Schwab Corp.,(SCHW),…
According to the California Court of Appeal, Metropolitan West Asset Management LLC indeed does not have to pay a solicitor it hired to bring in clients for its business. The ruling affirms the trial court’s summary judgment that favored the advisory firm on the grounds that the plaintiff Bruce Lloyd…
Per a study released by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, it is “ill-advised” to regulate money market mutual funds further due to the effective reforms that the SEC already implemented two yeas ago, including revisions that made the funds more transparent and liquid and not as high risk. The study…
At the Security Traders Association’s yearly market conference in DC, Richard Ketchum, Financial Industry Regulatory Authority’s chief executive officer and chairman, said that due to growing problems the SRO is heightening its surveillance and exam focus on the options industry. He noted that there has been an increase in complaints…
According to Securities and Exchange Commission Division of Investment Management deputy director Robert Plaze, the division is ready to recommend new reforms for mutual market funds as soon as Chairman Mary Schapiro gives the go ahead. Plaze spoke to reporters following at panel at the Mutual Fund Directors Forum’s yearly…
The Securities and Exchange Commission says that investors can now access detailed data about money market funds, including their portfolio’s market-based price, called its “shadow NAV” (net asset value). The public can now access this information, which will be updated regularly, on the SEC’s website through the Electronic Data Gathering,…
According to Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Mary Schapiro, the agency is dealing with a number of credit crisis-related issues associated with money market mutual funds, asset-backed securities, and credit ratings. She also said that the SEC is working on ABS rule proposals that would allow the interests of investors…
The US Treasury Department has announced that it will keep guaranteeing money market funds until the end of April 2009. The Temporary Guarantee Program for Money Market Funds was created because of worries that the funds’ net asset values would fall under $1 (a value drop known as “breaking the…