The Investment Funds and Structured Products Branch of the Ontario Securities Commission today released the April 2015 issue of The Investment Funds Practitioner, which provides an overview of recent issues arising from applications for discretionary relief, prospectuses and continuous disclosure documents filed by investment funds.
In respect of prospectuses, the Practitioner discusses concerns with respect to dual class structures of flow-through limited partnerships. The Practitioner also discloses OSC Staff's expectation that redemptions by ETFs that offer periodic redemptions of their securities at a price determined with reference to the closing market price of those securities be capped at NAV and that disclosure regarding market price redemptions include a statement to that effect. Dealing with mutual funds specifically, concerns include setting the payment of distributions in the form of reinvested units or shares as the default option if securityholders do not specifically request distributions in cash. Further, the Practitioner discusses when additional prospectus disclosure may be requested of the offering expenses of split share companies, and concerns with disclosure in closed-end fund prospectuses that suggest the closed-end fund would be permitted to do certain activities that are now contrary to the amended NI 81-102.
The Practitioner also discusses issues with past performance presentation in Fund Facts and public inquiries in regards to the rehypothecation of collateral for OTC derivatives.
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