Asset Manager SIFI Designation — SEC To The Rescue?

Law360, New York (June 24, 2014, 10:39 AM EDT) -- Asset managers who tuned in to last month's Financial Stability Oversight Council conference regarding the industry's potential systemic importance heard no surprises. The U.S. Treasury Department and regulators did not defend the September 2013 report by the Office of Financial Research, which had suggested that the industry's activities as a whole were systemically important.[1] Rather, officials continued to emphasize that they hold no predisposition toward designation. It was left to the academics at the conference to argue that asset managers could pose systemic risk....

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