SEC Tailored Shareholder Reports Rule | Liam Clarke Insights
VIGILANT INSIGHTS
Introduction
The SEC’s Tailored Shareholder Reports Rule had a Compliance Date on July 24th, 2024.
As Funds make all the necessary changes to their investor shareholder reporting, the amount of resources required to remain complaint can be substantial.
The process can create certain hurdles for smaller Firms with less staff at their disposal.
Ignites published an article highlighting some of those difficulties. In this article, Vigilant Director, Liam Clarke, CPA, MA, discussed how certain requirements create a unique situation for performance reporting.
Liam Clarke Insights
The Rule requires Fund performance to be compared against a standard, broad-based securities market index, such as the S&P 500.
Liam finds this situation to be a little unique in the industry, because generally a Fund with a niche strategy, or even a strategy concentrated on a subset of a broad-based index, would be inclined to compare the Fund’s performance against a niche index or subset of a broad-based index. However, the requirement to compare performance against a broad-based index, an index that represents the overall applicable domestic or international equity or debt markets, as appropriate, will provide investors more uniformity in the Tailored Shareholder Report.
Funds may struggle to choose the most appropriate broad-based index.
Vigilant’s Conclusion
Vigilant is prepared to help Firms that may be struggling with finding the resources to address the compliance requirements in our aggressive regulatory climate.
We bring hundreds of years of combined compliance experience at the Director level to help guide clients towards the most sufficient compliance decisions, especially when an obvious answer may not exist.
Reach out to us today if you find your Firm needs additional support to meet reporting requirements.