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The federal securities laws govern the offer and sale of securities and the trading of securities, activities of certain professionals in the industry, investment companies (such as mutual funds), tender offers, proxy statements, and generally the regulation of public companies. Public company regulation is largely a disclosure-driven regime ...
Registered Investment Companies (Rules 6-01 to 6-10) Investment companies, mainly mutual funds, with any interstate presence and above a certain size, must register with the SEC under The Investment Company Act of 1940. Investment companies are considered to be an industry with special reporting requirements, outlined in Rules 6-01 to 6-10.
Regulation S-K is a prescribed regulation under the US Securities Act of 1933 that lays out reporting requirements for various SEC filings used by public companies. Companies are also often called issuers (issuing or contemplating issuing shares), filers (entities that must file reports with the SEC) or registrants (entities that must register (usually shares) with the SEC).
The Securities and Exchange Commission approved a long-awaited rule requiring US public companies to disclose climate risks as well as Scope 1 and 2 emissions.
Even if there were no climate rules, companies are well aware that they need to consider the existing baseline SEC rules, like regulation S-X, which requires a public firm to disclose financial ...
Schedule 13D, within 10 days anyone who acquires beneficial ownership of more than 5% of any class of publicly traded securities in a public company must tell the SEC. SEA 1934 §13 or 15(d) requires an annual report; Form 10-K, the basic information required by the US Securities and Exchange Commission as an annual report
The Securities and Exchange Commission has proposed several rules aimed at ensuring the liquidity of open-end funds, especially if there is a financial crisis. The SEC's proposals would oblige ...
The act requires any person who makes a cash tender offer (which is usually 15-20% in excess of the current market price) for a corporation, that is required to be registered under federal law, to disclose to the federal Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) the source of the funds used in the offer, the purpose for which the offer is made ...