No-Action Relief from the Commodity Pool Operator Registration Requirement for Commodity Pool Operators of Certain Pooled Investment Vehicles Organized as Business Development Companies
No-Action Letter: Delayed Compliance Date of Amended Part 4; Rescission of Former Appendix A.
No-Action Relief related failure to register with the Commission as a CPO against a CPO that is a Family Office within the meaning and intent of 17 CFR § 275.202(a)(11)(G)-1, as amended.
The Division of Swap Dealer and Intermediary Oversight issued an interpretation that a limited liability company whose members were all family members was not a commodity pool within the meaning and intent of Regulation 4.10(d)(1) and, consequently, that the managing member was not a CPO thereof.
The Division of Swap Dealer and Intermediary Oversight provided no-action relief to the general partner of a commodity pool from registering as a CPO under Section 4m(1) of the Commodity Exchange Act, and allowed an affiliated, registered CPO (“designee”) to serve as the CPO of the pool instead, where, among other things: (1) the general partner and the designee are under common ownership and control; (2) the general partner has delegated all of its management authority to the designee; (3) the general partner does not engage in the solicitation of investors for the pool and does not manage
The Division of Swap Dealer and Intermediary Oversight provided no-action relief to the general partner of a commodity pool from registering as a CPO under Section 4m(1) of the Commodity Exchange Act, and allowed an affiliated CPO (“designee”) to serve as the CPO of the pool instead, where, among other things: (1) the general partner and the designee are under common ownership and control; (2) the general partner has delegated all of its investment management authority to the designee; and (3) the general partner does not engage in the solicitation of investors for the pool and does not man
The Division of Swap Dealer and Intermediary Oversight provided no-action relief to the general partner of a commodity pool from registering as a CPO under Section 4m(1) of the Commodity Exchange Act, and allowed an affiliated CPO (“designee”) to serve as the CPO of the pool instead, where, among other things: (1) the general partner and the designee are under common ownership and control; (2) the general partner has delegated all of its management authority to the designee; (3) the general partner does not engage in the solicitation of investors for the pool and does not manage property of
The Division of Swap Dealer and Intermediary Oversight issued an interpretative letter that clarifies, in light of the recent vacatur of the position limits rule, the scope of the bona fide hedging exemption from the trading thresholds as applied to the operators of registered investment companies pursuant to Regulation 4.5.
The Division of Swap Dealer and Intermediary Oversight issued an interpretative letter excluding certain securitization vehicles from the definition of commodity pool, subject to certain conditions.
