Category: Investment Funds
Dec 11, 2020 | Investment Funds, News, Regulatory Compliance
Welcome news for International Firms! Currently, certain international firms doing business in Ontario in reliance on statutory registration exemptions must also manually apply for discretionary relief from certain registration requirements in the Commodity Futures...
Dec 11, 2020 | Investment Funds, News, Regulatory Compliance
The Alberta Securities Commission and the Financial and Consumer Affairs Authority of Saskatchewan are proposing an interesting new prospectus exemption as a three-year pilot project as set out in CSA Multilateral Notice and Request for Comment 45-327 Proposed...
Oct 30, 2020 | Investment Funds, Regulatory Compliance
On October 1, the Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) and Investment Industry Regulatory Organization of Canada (IIROC) published joint whistleblower guidance (Guidance) encouraging the public to submit tips on potential abusive trading, including illegal insider...
Sep 30, 2020 | Investment Funds, News, Regulatory Compliance
On September 14, staff of the Compliance and Registrant Regulation (CRR) Branch at the Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) published their Annual Summary Report for Dealers, Advisers and Investment Fund Managers (Report). The OSC encourages registrants to use the...
Sep 30, 2020 | Corporate Finance, Investment Funds, Mortgage and Real Estate Investment Vehicles
On September 17, the Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) published for comment proposed changes to the offering memorandum (OM) prospectus exemption (OM Exemption) in National Instrument 45-106 Prospectus Exemptions (NI 45-106) and related guidance in Companion...
Sep 30, 2020 | Investment Funds, Regulatory Compliance
On September 17, the Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) published final rule amendments (Amendments) to National Instrument 81-105 Mutual Fund Sales Practices (NI 81-105) and certain other instruments to prohibit: The payment of trailing commissions by members...
Sep 30, 2020 | Investment Funds, Regulatory Compliance
On September 18, the Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) published Staff Notice 81-333 Guidance on Effective Liquidity Risk Management for Investment Funds (Guidance) to help funds develop and maintain an effective liquidity risk management (LRM) framework. The...
Aug 31, 2020 | Corporate Finance, Investment Funds, Mortgage and Real Estate Investment Vehicles, Regulatory Compliance
On August 6, the Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) published final amendments to national rules affecting the prospectus and registration exemptions for distributions of securities involving syndicated mortgages (National Amendments). In addition, some...
Aug 31, 2020 | Investment Funds, Regulatory Compliance
On August 27, the Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) published a report on their four-year study of what individual investors think about fees and the performance of their investments and how they interact with their advisors (Report). The study was conducted to...
Jul 31, 2020 | Corporate Finance, Investment Funds, Regulatory Compliance
Inventions, apologies, clean water and comedians. Canada is great at many things. Add to that list our tolerance for studies of our securities regulatory system. Here at AUM Law, we’ve been dipping into the initial consultation report (Report) of the Ontario...
Jun 30, 2020 | Investment Funds, Regulatory Compliance
On June 25, the Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) published a consultation paper (Consultation Paper) seeking feedback on whether the current framework for self-regulatory organizations (SROs) should be reformed. As our readers know, the existing system...
May 29, 2020 | Corporate Finance, Corporate Law, COVID-19, Investment Funds, Regulatory Compliance
On May 20, the Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) issued substantially harmonized blanket orders giving investment funds and other issuers temporary relief from certain regulatory and filing obligations. The conditions of relief are similar to the blanket orders...
May 29, 2020 | Investment Funds, Regulatory Compliance
Last November, we wrote about the Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) report Reducing Regulatory Burden in Ontario’s Capital Markets. On May 27, the OSC published a progress report (Report) on these initiatives. Of the 107 initiatives described in the original report,...
May 29, 2020 | COVID-19, Investment Funds, Regulatory Compliance
On May 12, the Financial Services Regulatory Authority of Ontario (FSRA) issued guidance (Guidance) for mortgage administrators (Administrators) and mortgage brokers (Brokers) regarding their disclosure and other obligations in respect of mortgage-based investments...
Apr 30, 2020 | COVID-19, Investment Funds
On April 17, the Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) issued blanket orders permitting mutual funds that invest a portion of their assets in fixed income securities to engage in additional short-term borrowing between April 17 and July 31, 2020. Ordinarily, mutual...
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