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The Investment Company Act of 1940 (commonly referred to as the '40 Act) is an act of Congress which regulates investment funds.It was passed as a United States Public Law (Pub. L. 76–768) on August 22, 1940, and is codified at 15 U.S.C. §§ 80a-1–80a-64.
A Business Development Company ("BDC") is a form of unregistered closed-end investment company in the United States that invests in small and mid-sized businesses. This form of company was created by the US Congress in 1980 in the amendments to the Investment Company Act of 1940. Publicly filing firms may elect regulation as BDCs if they meet ...
An investment company is a financial institution principally engaged in holding, managing and investing securities.These companies in the United States are regulated by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and must be registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940.
Alfred Jaretzki Jr. (1892–1976) was an American lawyer and an expert on investment companies. Jaretzki helped draft the Investment Company Act of 1940 passed by the United States Congress. He later authored an article in a 1941 issue of Washington University Law Quarterly that details the elements of the law and reasons for its passage. [1]
Unlike open-end and closed-end investment companies, a UIT has no board of directors. [1] A UIT is registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission under the Investment Company Act of 1940 and is classified as an investment company. [2] UITs are assembled by a sponsor and sold through brokerage firms to investors. [3]
Investors who owned a diversified portfolio of technology stocks in the late 1990s weren’t actually diversified because the underlying businesses they owned were tied to the same trends and factors.
The Investment Advisers Act (IAA) was passed in 1940 to monitor those who, for a fee, advise people, pension funds, and institutions on investment matters. Impetus for passage of the act began with the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935 , which authorized the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to study investment trusts.
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