Tag:Institutional Investment Manager

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United States: Firms Fail to File 13Fs, Fines Follow
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United States: SEC Adopts Expanded Proxy Voting Reporting by Registered Funds and New Reporting of Executive Compensation Votes by Form 13F Filers

United States: Firms Fail to File 13Fs, Fines Follow

By: C. Todd Gibson, Pablo J. Man, and Brian Doyle-Wenger

On 17 September 2024, the SEC announced settled charges against 11 institutional investment managers for failing to file Form 13F. In addition, two of the 11 firms also failed to file Forms 13H as large traders. The penalties ranged from US$175,000 to US$725,000, and in the aggregate exceeded US$3 million combined. However, two firms self-reported and paid no penalties and one firm self-reported Form 13H filing violations and paid no penalties on that portion of the settlement. Furthermore, all of the institutional investment managers made remedial filings covering several years (in one case over 50 such filings).

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United States: SEC Adopts Expanded Proxy Voting Reporting by Registered Funds and New Reporting of Executive Compensation Votes by Form 13F Filers

By: Lynn A. Schweinfurth, Kathy Kresch Ingber, and Crystal Liu

On November 2, by a vote of 3 to 2, the Securities and Exchange Commission adopted, largely as proposed, amendments to Form N-PX under the Investment Company Act of 1940 and new Rule 14Ad-1 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (Amendments).  The Amendments expand the proxy voting information that registered investment companies (Funds) report on Form N-PX, and require, for the first time, Form 13F filers (Managers) to report annually on Form N-PX how they voted proxies concerning certain shareholder advisory votes on executive compensation (“say-on-pay” votes).

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