The US Office of Financial Research recently released a report raising concerns that the largest asset managers could pose a threat to financial stability. That puts firms like BlackRock, Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management, Prudential Financial, AXA Investment Managers, MetLife, Invesco and UBS Global Asset Management in the cross-hairs of being considered “systemically important.” The … Read more »
Tag: Financial Stability Oversight Council
Are You Systemically Important?
The first step in figuring out if a financial company is too big to fail, is to figure what it means to be “big”. Section 113 of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act authorizes the Financial Stability Oversight Council to determine that a nonbank financial company will be subject to supervision by … Read more »
The SEC Wants to Know if You Are Systemically Important
The Securities and Exchange Commission proposed a new rule that would require advisers to private funds to report information for use by the Financial Stability Oversight Council in monitoring risk to the U.S. financial system. Sections 404 and 406 of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act requires the SEC to gather this … Read more »
Do You Want to be Systemically Important?
The hard work has begun as federal regulators are trying to implement the provisions of Dodd-Frank. The law pushed lots of the detail out to the agencies so there are lots of unanswered questions. One of the hot button issues was what to do with financial institutions that were too big to fail. Dodd-Frank came … Read more »
Should Private Funds Have more than $10 Billion?
The current draft of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act has a surprise in it for big hedge funds. By “surprise” I mean tax. Title XVI: Financial Crisis Special Assessment has a $19 billion fee ready to be assessed against financial companies institutions with more than $50 billion in assets and hedge … Read more »