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Latest News in Asset Management

  • August 14, 2026

    9th Circ. Says Film Industry Pension Fight Needs 2nd Look

    The Ninth Circuit on Friday revived a set designer's suit claiming that the board of the Motion Picture Industry Pension Plans stood by while certain investment funds underperformed year over year, ruling a lower court should reassess whether the board acted imprudently under a clarified legal standard.

  • August 14, 2026

    SEC Staff Halt Responses To Proxy Proposal Exclusion Bids

    The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Friday made permanent a previous decision to step back from responding to companies' bids to exclude shareholder proposals from their ballots, following comments from the agency's chairman that the most recent proxy season saw none of the "dire predictions" some had forecast after the retreat.

  • August 14, 2026

    Taxation With Representation: Miller Thomson, Bennett Jones

    In this week's Taxation With Representation, GO Residential Real Estate Investment Trust and a consortium of buyers acquire H&R Real Estate Investment Trust, insurance exchange Accelerant goes private in a deal with Thoma Bravo, and Goldman Sachs acquires NEOS Investments.

  • August 13, 2026

    SEC Scraps Friday Meeting To Propose Crypto Regulations

    The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Thursday canceled closely watched plans to hold a public meeting Friday to potentially issue a proposed rule outlining a path forward for the trading of cryptocurrency assets under the agency's oversight.

  • August 13, 2026

    BNY Should Face Stanford Ponzi Suit In NJ, Judge Says

    A Texas federal judge recommended that a class action alleging the Bank of New York Mellon's involvement in R. Allen Stanford's Ponzi scheme be removed to New Jersey, saying the claims do not belong within the wider multidistrict litigation.

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