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The Securities and Exchange Commission s Investor Advisory
Committee will hold a public meeting on Thursday, March 11, 2021.
The meeting will begin at 10:00 a.m. EST and will be a webcast. The
committee will hold two panel discussions: a follow-on discussion
regarding self-directed individual retirement accounts (IRAs), and
a discussion regarding special purpose acquisition companies
(SPACs). The full agenda is available here.
In addition, the committee will also discuss two
recommendations: one regarding minority and underserved inclusion,
and one regarding credit rating agencies.
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On March 10, 2021, the SEC's Office of Investor Education and Advocacy (OIEA) published an Investor Alert cautioning investors not to make SPAC-related investment decisions based on.
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In late 2020, rumor had it that the Securities and Exchange
Commission (SEC) under the Biden Administration would likely move
to encourage or require more robust disclosure of
environmental-social-governance (ESG) and climate-related risks.
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Therefore, it came as no surprise when the Acting Chair of the
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Allison Herren Lee,
released a statement on February 24, 2021, directing the SEC s
Division of Corporate Finance to focus on climate-related
disclosure in public company filings.
2 Although the statement did not
apply to the municipal bond market, we have observed that the
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