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The Securities and Exchange Commission has released updated FAQ guidance regarding investment company reporting modernization reforms as they relate to forms N-PORT and N-CEN.
The agency's Division of Investment Management's latest update on Wednesday relates to the investment company reporting modernization reforms adopted in October 2016 and revised in December 2017.
IM staff said they expect to update the document from time to time to include responses to additional questions.
As to the respective compliance dates for Form N-PORT and Form N-CEN, the IM division explained that for Form N-PORT, larger entities — funds that together with other investment companies in the same group of related investment companies have net assets of $1 billion or more as of the end of the most recent fiscal year of the fund — has a compliance date of June 1, 2018.
Funds must file reports on Form N-PORT no later than 30 days after the end of each month. Compliance should be based on reporting period-end date.
Under a modified approach, larger entities will maintain in their records the information that is required to be included in Form N-PORT, in lieu of filing reports with the commission, until April 1, 2019.
Like all fund records under the Investment Company Act, this information is subject to examination by commission staff, the division states.
