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Wednesday, February 27, 2008 ETF Approval Process is in the SEC Spotlight The SEC is expected to propose a new rule next week that will make it easier to start ETFs, Kara Scannell and Diya Gullapalli report in today's WSJ FundTrack. Many ETF firms had been complaining about the snail's pace of the approval process and the seemingly random hand that picked those that were approved. (see: "So You Want to Get Your ETF Approved..." MFWire July 26, 2007)Few details of what the new proposal may include are available but, in a recent speech investment management division director, Buddy Donohue, said that one SEC goal is to make a rule codifying ETF relief. Printed from: MFWire.com/story.asp?s=17524 Copyright 2008, InvestmentWires, Inc. All Rights Reserved |