This post will bring to a close, for now, our survey of the requirements of new Rule 18f-4, which investment companies must comply with by August 19, 2022. This post considers whether a Chief Compliance or Risk Officer should
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Compliance with Rule 18f-4 by a Fund-of-Funds
The release adopting Rule 18f-4 (the “Adopting Release”) devotes an entire section to discussing how “a fund that invests in other registered investment companies (‘underlying funds’)” should comply with the value-at-risk (“VaR”) requirements of the rule. This post considers three…
Compliance with Rule 18f-4 by a Sub-Advised Fund
As with Fund-of-Funds, the release adopting Rule 18f-4 (the “Adopting Release”) devotes a section to sub-advised funds. We again consider three types of funds:
- VaR Funds in which a sub-adviser manages their entire portfolio (“Single Sub-Adviser Funds”);
- VaR Funds
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Assessing the Limited Derivatives User Requirements of Rule 18f-4—Notional Amounts
This post continues our assessment of whether the Limited Derivatives User requirements of Rule 18f-4(c)(4) effectively and efficiently accomplish the SEC’s aim of providing “an objective standard to identify funds that use derivatives in a limited manner.” Here…
RIAs and Bitcoin Futures ETFs: Forget Not Thy CPO and CTA Analysis
The financial press is awash this morning with reports that the launch of a bitcoin futures exchange-traded fund (a “BTC Futures ETF”) may be imminent.
Before recommending that clients invest directly in bitcoin or in a BTC Futures ETF, a…
Assessing the Limited Derivatives User Requirements of Rule 18f-4—Costs
Our last series of posts on Rule 18f-4 have struggled to understand how its Limited Derivatives User requirements are supposed to work. We have done the best we could to explain the process for calculating a fund’s derivatives exposure,…
Compliance Checklist for Limited Derivatives Users
As has been our practice in this series on new Rule 18f-4, we end our survey of its Limited Derivatives User requirements with a compliance checklist. This checklist reiterates much of our earlier post on Derivatives Exposure: Why…
Hedging Derivatives under Rule 18f-4: Not an “All or None” Exclusion
This post will address another ambiguity in the “10% buffer” Rule 18f-4 provides for excluding the notional amount of derivative transactions that hedge currency or interest rate risks (“Hedging Derivatives”) when calculating the Derivatives Exposure of a Limited…
Rule 18f-4: One 10% Buffer or Many?
This post continues our examination of the “10% buffer” for Hedging Derivatives, which refers to the amount by which the notional amounts of Hedging Derivatives can exceed the value, par or principal amount of the hedged equity and fixed-income…
Rule 18f-4: The 10% Buffer and Changes in Hedged Investments
By Stephen A. Keen and Andrew P. Cross
This post continues our examination of the “10% buffer” for Hedging Derivatives, which refers to the amount by which the notional amounts of Hedging Derivatives can exceed the value of hedged…