Overview

This updated fifth edition reflects a large number of updates since 2015, covering significant completed and pending rulemakings and other initiatives by the SEC, including those relating to the following: liquidity risk and cybersecurity risk management; exchange traded funds; the use of funds of derivatives; fair valuation; funds investing in other funds; money market fund (""MMF"") reformfund names; environmental (including climate), social, and governance (""ESG"") investing; and industry developments including LIBOR transition, responses to the COVID-19 pandemic, and greater focus on diversity, equity, and inclusion. To assist directors of investment companies registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940 in fulfilling their responsibilities, this guide provides: an overview of functions, responsibilities, and potential liabilities of fund directors, under both the federal securities laws (including the 1940 Act) and corporate law generally; information about the structure and operations of the board and its relationship to the investment adviser, the distributor, and others important to the fund; assistance to directors in discharging their responsibilities by providing them with enough information to enable them to understand their duties and to ask the right questions; suggestions as to how independent directors can best fulfill their responsibilities by reference to industry practice and legal requirements; and more.

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Is the principal Business Law Section committee dealing with the Federal securities laws, provides meaningful meetings, programs and information to practitioners covering a wide range of securities law topics, and through  comment letters, is a significant resource to the SEC.

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