Resources
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October 27, 2025
Webinar Archive: Latest in Closed-End Funds Litigations
Vanessa Richardson and Jay Spinola, partners at Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP highlighted latest in CEF litigations. This webinar aired on October 23, 2025. -
October 23, 2025
Webinar Archive: From Awareness to Assets - Why Marketing Matters for Registered Funds
This webinar will highlight the importance of product marketing, understanding the “Client Investing Journey,” identifying metrics to measure success, working within compliance and regulatory requirements, and how board oversight of distribution intersects with overall marketing strategy. This webinar aired on October 21, 2025. -
October 17, 2025
Webinar Archive: Series Trust Funds - Effective Board Relationship with Advisers
Speakers from Angel Oak Funds board, DLA Piper, Ultimus Managers Trust, and US Bank Global Fund Services shared their insights on how series trust fund boards can create and maintain effective board relationships with advisers. This webinar aired on October 15, 2025. -
October 16, 2025
Webinar Archive: Essential Strategies in Board Oversight of Operational Risk Management
As part of MFDF and Deloitte's Oversight of Risk Management webinar series, this webinar will focus on board oversight of operational risk management. This webinar aired on October 14, 2025. -
September 30, 2025
Webinar Archive: Risk Management Essentials for RICs and Boards
As part of MFDF and Deloitte's Oversight of Risk Management webinar series, this webinar focused on the elements of a risk management program in the investment management industry. This webinar aired on September 29, 2025. -
September 19, 2025
Webinar Archive - MFDF 15(c) White Paper Webinar Series: Part 4 - Enforcement Action Takeaways
Morgan Lewis partners discussed MFDF's 15(c) White Paper: Part 4 – Enforcement Action Takeaways. This webinar aired on September 16, 2025.
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September 11, 2025
Webinar Archive: Series Trust Funds - Compliance and Board Reporting
Martin Dean, President of Northern Lights Compliance LLC, and Ken Grant, independent directors on the Unified Series Trust board, highlighted priorities on compliance and board reporting that series fund trust boards should consider when fulfilling their oversight duties. This webinar aired on Setember 10, 2025. -
September 4, 2025
Webinar Archive: The Audit Committee Chair's Guide to Balancing Duties and Emerging Issues
As part of MFDF's The Audit Committee Chair's Guide program series, John Braun, partner at Cohen & Co. and David Roeber, partner at Stradley Ronon, discussed best practices in balancing duties, skillsets, and emerging issues governed by audit committees. This webinar originally aired on September 3, 2025. -
July 30, 2025
Webinar Archive: Use of Derivatives by RICs
Dechert's Philip Hinkle and Katie Cognlan updated directors on the use of derivatives in RICs and what boards should know for their oversight responsibilities. This webinar originally aired on July 29, 2025. -
July 18, 2025
Webinar Archive: ETF Conversions
As part of MFDF's ETF webinar series, Ropes & Gray partner Paulita Pike highlighted the top ETF conversion issues that fund boards should consider in their oversight roles. This webinar originally aired on July 17, 2025. -
July 17, 2025
Webinar Archive: M&A and Consolidation in Asset Management
Ropes & Gray partner Brian McCabe shared updates and insights on key takeaways for boards to consider in M&A and consolidations in the asset management industry. This webinar originally aired on July 16, 2025. -
July 11, 2025
Webinar Archive: Mid-Year Tax Update for Registered Investment Companies
EY's Amy Snyder, tax principal in EY's Asset Management practice, and Lisa Wolski, managing director of EY's Washington Council, provided mid-year tax updates for boards of RICs to consider. This webinar originally aired on July 10, 2025. -
June 23, 2025
MFDF Spotlight Archive: Fund Director Independence
Tom Westle, partner at BlankRome, discussed fund director independence and the factors required to meet SEC's requirements for registered investment companies. This webinar aired on June 18, 2025. -
June 18, 2025
Webinar Archive: Current Landscape of Securities Lending
Lori Paris with Northern Trust Securities Finance provided the basics of security lending that fund boards should know in overseeing securities lending program parameters. This webinar aired on June 17, 2025. -
June 9, 2025
Webinar Archive: The Audit Committee Chair's Guide to Foundation for Success
As part of MFDF's The Audit Committee Chair's Guide program series, John Braun, partner at Cohen & Co. and David Roeber, partner at Stradley Ronon, discussed the core knowlege to foster effective leadership of the fund's audit committee. This webinar aired on June 5, 2025. -
June 2, 2025
MFDF Spotlight Archive - The State of Fund Board Recruiting (2025)
The next MFDF Spotlight webinar featured Leslie Beckbridge with MFDF as she highlighted the key observations and trends for MFDF's Fund Board Recruitment Practices Report. This Spotlight webinar aired live on May 29, 2025.
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May 22, 2025
Webinar Archive: Mutual Fund Director Compensation - The MPI Annual Survey
MPI's Jay Keeshan and Sara Yerkey, discussed the results from the latest Survey of Mutual Fund Director/Trustee Compensation and Organizational Practices. This webinar aired on May 22, 2025. -
May 21, 2025
Webinar Archive: Series Trust Funds - Board Oversight 101
Cassandra Borchers, partner with Squire Patton Boggs, and Freddie Jacobs, Jr., president of Institutional Trust Services of BPAS, discussed the core responsibilities of series trust fund boards and highlighted best practices required for effective governance for the niche issues facing series trust boards. This webinar aired on May 20, 2025. -
May 8, 2025
Webinar Archive - MPI's Annual Survey of Investment Firm Profitability and Economies of Scale
Sara Yerkey, with Management Practice, and Kelley Howes, Partner and Co-Chair of the Investment Management Group at Morrison and Foerster LLP, shared highlights from the latest MPI Annual Survey of Investment Firm Profitability and implications for fund director oversight. This webinar aired on May 7, 2025. -
May 7, 2025
Webinar Archive - Update on Fund Industry Claims Trends: An Insurer’s Perspective
Julia Ulstrup and John Mulligan from ICI Mutual provided an update of fund industry claims trends and recent developments in the fund industry insurance market. This webinar aired on May 6, 2025.