IOSCO: Valuing collective investment schemes, strengthening global standards for fund valuation

IOSCO’s report sets out recommendations intended to further enhance the reliability, consistency and transparency of valuation practices across global investment funds It updates and consolidates IOSCO’s earlier principles on valuation for collective investment schemes and hedge funds which were published in 2013 and 2007 respectively. The recommendations focus on: governance and oversight arrangements, including under stressed market conditions; management of conflicts of interest; valuation methodologies; the use and oversight of third-party valuation providers, and transparency, disclosure to investors and record-keeping.