Registered Funds Alert, May 2017
This latest edition of Simpson Thacher’s Registered Funds Alert discusses: the potential role registered funds reform could play in supporting the new SEC Chair’s mission to improve capital markets access; re-evaluating the burden on registered fund directors; the growing academic debate over antitrust concerns involving asset managers and mutual funds and potential related policy changes; and the SEC’s published Risk Alert on the top five investment adviser compliance issues found during inspections.