The SEC Division of Investment Management declined a request to take a no-action position from a registered investment company that sought to exclude proxy materials on a shareholder proposal to "declassify" the Fund's Board.
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The U.S. House of Representatives passed the Expanding Access to Capital Act of 2023 in a party line vote. The bill is intended to build on the JOBS Act of 2012 by reducing the regulatory burdens on certain capital raising transactions.
In its "Review of the 'Accredited Investor' Definition," a report required under Dodd-Frank, the SEC considered the evolution of the definition of the term "accredited investor," and cited statistics detailing how the impact of the definition has changed over time.
A broker-dealer settled charges with FINRA for failing to file required information in connection with private placement offerings sold to retail investors.
The SEC updated its Proxy Rules and Schedule 14A Manual of Publicly Available Telephone Interpretations and the 1999 Supplement. The SEC said that it is continuing a process of updating broader "Compliance and Disclosure Interpretations" relating to the proxy rules.