Service Providers as Investment Advisers

Tune into Mutual Fund Minute here, as Jay Baris, a partner in Sidley’s Investment Funds group, looks at the growing interest in index-based investing by mutual funds and ETFs that has prompted the SEC to ask whether they should regulate index providers and other service providers as investment advisers. This episode looks at the implications for funds and investment advisers if they were go down this regulatory route.

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