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The Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX) announced amendments to the TSX Company Manual (Amendments) effective September 17, 2015 relating to the listing of Exchanged Traded Products, Closed-End Funds and Structured Products, as defined in the Amendments.

Proposed Amendments were first published on January 15, 2015.  Nine commentators (including Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP)…

On January 15, 2015, the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX) published for comment proposed amendments to the TSX Company Manual which would introduce listing requirements for non-corporate entities, such as exchange-traded products, closed-end funds and structured products, as those terms are defined in the proposed amendments.

The proposed amendments address the following, among other matters:

  • minimum

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The previously published amendments (Phase 2 amendments) to NI 81-102 as part of the CSA’s fund modernization project are now in effect.

For mutual funds, the changes include:

  • a new prohibition against investing in closed-end funds (subject to an 18-month transition period for existing mutual funds), and
  • new sales communications requirements for mutual funds following

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On June 19, 2014, the Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) released, in final form, amendments that will apply a number of new requirements and restrictions to closed-end funds (Phase 2 amendments).  These include:

  • a prohibition against issuing any warrants (whether as part of an initial public offering, or subsequently to existing unitholders),
  • a prohibition against

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Easily overlooked in the drama of last Friday’s Ontario election call was that the Budget bill which brought down the Liberal government included proposed amendments to extend the conflict of interest investment restrictions in Part XXI of the Securities Act to public closed-end funds.  Last year’s proposed amendments to NI 81-102 and NI 81-104 (Phase…