Mutual funds are still at risk from market timing despite regulation to stop it, according to three-quarters of the funds' chief compliance officers, Financial Times reports.
In addition, more than eight out of 10 officers surveyed believed that trading practices, the valuation of securities, and e-mails were areas of risk where there could be a compliance failure for the funds, according to a survey of 100 CCOs released Monday.
The poll, conducted by
Funds with more than $25 billion in assets were twice as likely to cite trading practices as a high or moderate risk, and three times as likely to cite securities valuation as a high risk, the survey said.
A compliance risk meant they might fail to comply with internal fund controls or external laws or regulation, according to the report.
More than half of these larger companies, compared with less than 10% of the small ones, said they would have difficulty implementing the hard 4 p.m. close for trading, imposed as a result of the market timing imbroglio. It was originally designed to stop investors from buying or selling mutual fund shares after the closing bell, when the net asset value (NAV) of the funds was set.
Among the 14 packages of reforms proposed by the
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