[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 179 (Monday, September 16, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Pages 58438-58439]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-23663]


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SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION


Sunshine Act Meeting

    Notice is hereby given, pursuant to the provisions of the 
Government in the Sunshine Act, Pub. L. 94-409, that the Securities and 
Exchange Commission will hold the following meetings during the week of 
September 16, 2002:
    A Closed Meeting will be held on Thursday, September 19, 2002, at 
10 a.m., and an Open Meeting will be held on Thursday, September 19, 
2002, at 3:30 p.m., in Room 1C30, the William O. Douglas Room.
    Commissioners, Counsel to the Commissioners, the Secretary to the 
Commission, and recording secretaries will attend the Closed Meeting. 
Certain staff members who have an interest in the matters may also be 
present.
    The General Counsel of the Commission, or his designee, has 
certified that, in his opinion, one or more of the exemptions set forth 
in 5 U.S.C. 552b(c)(3), (5), (7), (8), (9)(B) and

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(10) and 17 CFR 200.402(a)(3), (5), (7), (8), (9)(ii) and (10), permit 
consideration of the scheduled matters at the Closed Meeting.
    The subject matter of the Closed Meeting scheduled for Thursday, 
September 19, 2002 will be:

Institution and settlement of injunctive actions;
Institution and settlement of administrative proceedings of an 
enforcement nature;
Formal orders of investigations; and
Regulatory matters regarding financial institutions.

    The subject matter of the Open Meeting scheduled for Thursday, 
September 19, 2002 will be:
    1. The Commission will consider whether to propose amendments to 
Forms N-1A, N-2, and N-3, and proposed Form N-CSR, that would require 
mutual funds and other registered management investment companies to 
disclose the policies and procedures that they use to determine how to 
vote proxies relating to portfolio securities. The proposed amendments 
would also require registered management investment companies to file 
with the Commission, and make available to shareholders, their proxy 
voting records.
    2. The Commission will consider whether to propose new rule 206(4)-
6 under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 that would require 
registered investment advisers to adopt proxy voting policies and 
procedures, and to disclose to clients those policies and procedures 
and how clients can obtain information about how the adviser has voted 
their proxies. In addition, the Commission will consider an amendment 
to rule 204-2 under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 that would 
require advisers to keep records of how they vote client proxies.
    At times, changes in Commission priorities require alterations in 
the scheduling of meeting items. For further information and to 
ascertain what, if any, matters have been added, deleted or postponed, 
please contact: The Office of the Secretary at (202) 942-7070.

    Dated: September 12, 2002.
Margaret H. McFarland,
Deputy Secretary.
[FR Doc. 02-23663 Filed 9-12-02; 4:00 pm]
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