Amendments to the Fund Names Rule - US proposed rule

The proposed amendments to the Fund Names Rule by the SEC are directly relevant to PRI signatories. 

- the proposed rule would expand the requirement for funds with certain names to adopt a policy to invest 80 percent of their assets in the investments suggested by that name to cover any fund names suggestion a focus in investments. This would include, among other things, ESG factors. 

- the proposed rule introduced disclosure requirement for improved information to investors about how funds names track their investments. This would include fund prospectus disclosure that defines the terms used in a fund's name. 

- Under the proposal, a fund that considers ESG factors alongside but not more centrally than other, non-ESG factors in its investment decisions would not be permitted to use ESG or similar terminology in its name.