The Congressional Research Service provided an overview of the current authority of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States following the recent implementation of the Foreign Investment Risk Review Modernization Act.
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The Financial Stability Oversight Council heard updates on the work of the Alternative Reference Rates Committee and a Council review of asset management products and activities.
Researchers at the Office of Financial Research questioned the application of SEC Form PF as a risk-management instrument. In a published working paper, they recommended capturing additional characteristics on the form to "constrain the range of possible risk profiles more tightly," and suggested revamping the form to better represent complex portfolios.
An Office of Financial Research working paper concluded that "Form PF submissions may obscure reporting funds' actual risks". The paper examined the precision of the SEC's Form PF as an instrument for measuring market risk exposures. The SEC requires private fund investors to use Form PF to report regulatory assets under management.