Download or read book Normative Transparency of Mutual Fund Disclosure and the Case of the Expense Ratio written by John A. Haslem and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study further develops and defines the concept of normative transparency of disclosure. As defined, mutual fund normative transparency is that fund proactive, voluntary disclosure as well as legal and regulatory disclosure required for investors to be able to make information efficient fund investment decisions.To attain normative transparency of mutual funds disclosure, Congress, the SEC, and fund advisers, managers and independent directors should individually and collectively become more proactive in serving and protecting shareholders. Normative transparency of disclosure is not likely to be achieved across the board. There are political obstacles to complete transparency being achieved by Congress and the SEC, or by collaboration with individual funds, the funds industry and its trade association. The final reality is that is will likely fall to independent directors of individual mutual funds to provide normative transparency of disclosure for their shareholders. And, what should be done will also change over time as the industry evolves. Future study of normative transparency of mutual fund disclosure should continue to find its way across the breadth of fund laws, regulations, and practices. Included should be assessment of the fund cost and performance differences to current shareholders from flow (portfolio changes due to investor purchases and redemptions of fund shares) versus non-flow (intended portfolio changes). Providing liquidity to investors can have a larger impact on fund performance than the current regulatory expense ratio.
Download or read book Chapter 17 written by John A. Haslem and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 40Act states that the interests of shareholders are compromised when mutual funds are operated in the interest of fund advisers. In this regard, one of the Act's major objectives is to ensure investors receive adequate and accurate information. They do not. For this reason, Congress, the SEC, fund advisers and independent directors, and the fund industry must focus on the goal of requiring across the board normative transparency of disclosure. This disclosure includes adoption of “best practices” over the current focus on “rule-making,” which allows incorrect accounting and incomplete, missing, misleading and perfunctory disclosure. Adoption of the Total Expense Ratio construct and its components would provide a major portion of what is needed in the way of normative transparency of disclosure by placing upfront its four major categories of fees and their sub-categories. In so doing, current indirect fund shareholder payments by advisers/distributors would no longer be “behind the mutual fund curtain.” There would also be continual need to benchmark. By making these payments “behind the mutual fund curtain” upfront and transparent, there will be increased pressure on fund advisers and independent directors, the fund industry, Congress, and the SEC to prohibit inappropriate fund practices and actions, most importantly, selling group payments of dealer concessions and customer servicing fees, the several types of revenue sharing payments, and costly soft-dollar trades. If successful, there would also be continual need to benchmark normative transparency if it is to be maintained with future changing conditions. But, while improvements in regulatory disclosure are likely to occur over time, it is most unlikely the political process will achieve complete normative transparency of disclosure. However, industry and political obstacles for reform are more likely to be overcome if major “shareholder friendly“ fund advisers and dedicated independent directors work collectively, vigorously, and proactively for Congressional and SEC legal and regulatory action. However, such success will be difficult to attain because of the powerful influence of many major mutual fund advisers who benefit greatly from the regulatory status quo, and at the great expense of fund shareholders.
Download or read book Toward Normative Transparency of Disclosure in a Revised Mutual Fund Total Cost Construct written by John A. Haslem and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first goal is to review types of transparency -- relative versus absolute and positive versus normative, transparency of the SEC total expense ratio, stewardship and transparency, the aftermath of the fund scandal, the movement toward normative transparency, and future transparency. The concept of normative transparency of disclosure refers to the degree of mutual fund voluntary and proactive disclosure and also new and revised legal and regulatory disclosure required for shareholders to be able to make information-efficient fund investment decisions.The second goal is to apply normative transparency of disclosure to a more complete and more empirically based mutual fund Total Cost Construct (formerly New The Journal Total Expense Ratio). The Total Cost Construct (and selected Supplements) include previous and numerous newly identified fund “cost-item” categories, subcategories, components, and subcomponents. Further, the Total Cost Construct and selected Supplements include numerous newly identified (but yet partial) fund sample cost estimates of cost-item categories, subcategories, components, and subcomponents, all defined as percentages of total net assets (% TNA). The Total Cost Construct will continue to evolve as additional and/or revised cost-items are identified, and/or additional fund sample cost estimates of cost-items are identified.
Download or read book Normative Transparency of Mutual Fund Disclosure written by John A. Haslem and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Investment Company Ac ...
Download or read book Normative Transparency of Disclosure for Mutual Fund Investors written by John A. Haslem and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Investment Company Ac ...
Download or read book H R 2420 the Mutual Funds Integrity and Fee Transparency Act of 2003 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Financial Services. Subcommittee on Capital Markets, Insurance, and Government Sponsored Enterprises and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mutual funds greater transparency needed in disclosures to investors written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Tool for Improved Mutual Funds Transparency written by John A. Haslem and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This article provides a broad treatment of transparency and the specific normative data and information that are essential to make transparency effective for meeting the normative needs of shareholders. The template offered here is a tool for providing transparency in normative mutual fund disclosure in a convenient online package.Mutual funds, their investment advisers, Congress, the SEC, NASD, and the industry trade association should all do much more to improve regulation and transparency in normative fund disclosure. Shareholders need fund transparency that represents their role as fund owners, and which provides them with needed online disclosure for informed decision making.
Download or read book A Tool for Improved Mutual Fund Transparency written by John A. Haslem and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This article provides a broad treatment of transparency and the specific normative data and information that are essential to make transparency effective for meeting the normative needs of shareholders. The template offered here is a tool for providing transparency in normative mutual fund disclosure in a convenient online package. Mutual funds, their investment advisers, Congress, the SEC, NASD, and the industry trade association should all do much more to improve regulation and transparency in normative fund disclosure. Shareholders need fund transparency that represents their role as fund owners, and which provides them with needed online disclosure for informed decision making.
Download or read book Normative Listing and Description of Mutual Fund Transparent and Opaque Fees and Expenses written by John A. Haslem and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 7 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study provides mutual fund shareholders with a normative listing of transparent and traditionally opaque fees and expenses designed for most all funds. The most likely next step, if any, would be for a few "stewardship funds" to adopt the normative listing of transparent and traditionally opaque fees and expenses and attach to each its percentage cost to total net assets, if any. This analysis is needed, for one reason, because a large percentage of individual investors, especially those with low financial literacy, are unaware of the existence of traditionally opaque fund fees and expenses, no less their percentage costs.
Download or read book Mutual Funds Integrity and Fee Transparency Act of 2003 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Financial Services and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mutual Funds written by John A. Haslem and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 9 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The updated New Total Expense Ratio is designed to categorize properly each type of mutual fund fee and expense. The purpose is to provide normative transparency of disclosure to serve the primary interests of fund shareholders. The current regulatory scheme of disclosure is short on transparency and long on opacity.The Appendix includes the Ratio Construct and each category and component. The Ratio Construct is designed for mutual funds that distribute shares through brokers and other financial intermediaries, but it can be simplified for no-load funds. The Ratio provides normative transparency of disclosure to fund shareholders with the goal of its adoption by agreement or regulation.The next major step is to cost each of the fees and expenses in the Ratio Construct. This article takes the first step by using research findings to estimate Direct Distribution Fees and Total Transaction Costs Net of Soft Dollar Trading Costs.Discussion focuses on mutual fund distribution, including 12b-1 fees and share classes, distributor and types of distribution, revenue-sharing payments, soft dollar trades, directed brokerage, and distribution research and costs.
Download or read book The Total Expense Ratio written by John A. Haslem and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study uses the portion of a new Total Expense Ratio construct that discloses the reality of adviser/distributor payments of distribution fees (hidden) to sales brokers behind the mutual fund curtain. Distribution fees consist of dealer (broker) concessions, account servicing (12b-1) fees), types of revenue sharing payments, and soft-dollar trades. Distribution fees are one of four categories in the Total Expense Ratio, the others being (1) management fees, (2) other expenses, and (3) transaction costs.Distribution fees and their sub-categories are the scope of this study, but adoption of the complete Total Expense Ratio would provide mutual fund investors with normative transparency of disclosure of its four categories and their sub-categories. Such transparent disclosure would provide necessary, but not sufficient, conditions for complete adoption of transparent disclosure to the full scope of fund adviser managerial and regulatory practices and decisions.Adoption of the complete Total Expense Ratio with normative transparency of disclosure followed by prohibition of 12b-1 fees, revenue sharing payments, and soft-dollar trading requires strong action by fund independent directors, the fund industry, and, most importantly, by Congress and the SEC. Only a few fund advisers are likely to join in this effort to change their very profitable status quo. But, fund shareholders deserve to receive their fiduciary protections under law.
Download or read book Mutual Funds written by John A. Haslem and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-11-02 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An authoritative, must-read guide to making more informed decisions about mutual funds Providing a balance of theory and application, this authoritative book will enable you to evaluate the various performance and risk attributes of mutual funds. It covers a broad range of topics, including understanding the advantages and disadvantages of mutual funds, evaluating stock/bond allocations within fund portfolios, assessing fund diversification risk, measuring fund returns and risk, and making fund buy/sell decisions. While informative chapters combine clear summaries of existing research with practical guidelines for mutual fund analysis, step-by-step decision checklists guide you through the selection of various mutual funds. Puts the risks and rewards of mutual fund investing in perspective Skillfully examines how to select and evaluate the best mutual funds Outlines mutual fund service advantages and disadvantages Discusses the long- and short-term effectiveness of mutual funds Covering major theoretical and management issues in mutual fund analysis and portfolio management, this book is an authoritative guide.
Download or read book Mutual Funds written by United States Accounting Office (GAO) and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-05-29 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mutual Funds: Additional Disclosures Could Increase Transparency of Fees and Other Practices
Download or read book Mutual Funds written by John Haslem and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-02-09 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This authoritative book enables readers to evaluate the variousperformance and risk attributes of mutual funds, while also servingas a comprehensive resource for students, academics, and generalinvestors alike. Avoiding the less useful descriptive approach tofund selection, this book employs a balanced approach includingboth technique and application. The chapters combine clearsummaries of existing research with practical guidelines for mutualfund analysis. Enables readers to analyze mutual funds by evaluating a fund'svarious performance and risk attributes. Includes templates, which provide an efficient, sound approachto fund analysis, interpretation of results, buy/sell decisions,and the timing of decisions. Combines clear summaries of existing research with practicalguidelines for mutual fund analysis.
Download or read book Mutual Funds written by John A. Haslem and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-10-08 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An authoritative, must-read guide to making more informed decisions about mutual funds Providing a balance of theory and application, this authoritative book will enable you to evaluate the various performance and risk attributes of mutual funds. It covers a broad range of topics, including understanding the advantages and disadvantages of mutual funds, evaluating stock/bond allocations within fund portfolios, assessing fund diversification risk, measuring fund returns and risk, and making fund buy/sell decisions. While informative chapters combine clear summaries of existing research with practical guidelines for mutual fund analysis, step-by-step decision checklists guide you through the selection of various mutual funds. Puts the risks and rewards of mutual fund investing in perspective Skillfully examines how to select and evaluate the best mutual funds Outlines mutual fund service advantages and disadvantages Discusses the long- and short-term effectiveness of mutual funds Covering major theoretical and management issues in mutual fund analysis and portfolio management, this book is an authoritative guide.
