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Download as PDF 16842 Federal Register / Vol. 79, No. 58 / Wednesday, March 26, 2014 / Notices confidential; the information collected is public information. Written comments are invited on: (a) Whether the proposed collection of information is necessary for the proper performance of the functions of the Commission, including whether the information shall have practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the Commission’s estimates of the burden of the proposed collection of information; (c) ways to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the information collected; and (d) ways to minimize the burden of the collection of information on respondents, including through the use of automated collection techniques or other forms of information technology. Consideration will be given to comments and suggestions submitted in writing within 60 days of this publication. An agency may not conduct or sponsor, and a person is not required to respond to, a collection of information under the PRA unless it displays a currently valid OMB control number. Please direct your written comments to: Thomas Bayer, Director/Chief Information Officer, Securities and Exchange Commission, c/o Remi Pavlik-Simon, 100 F Street NE., Washington, DC 20549, or send an email to: PRA_Mailbox@sec.gov. Dated: March 20, 2014. Kevin M. O’Neill, Deputy Secretary. [FR Doc. 2014–06602 Filed 3–25–14; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 8011–01–P SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request Upon Written Request Copies Available From: Securities and Exchange Commission, Office of Investor Education and Advocacy, Washington, DC 20549–0213. sroberts on DSK5SPTVN1PROD with NOTICES Extension: Rule 425, OMB Control No. 3235–0521, SEC File No. 270–462. 19:00 Mar 25, 2014 Jkt 232001 Dated: March 20, 2014. Kevin M. O’Neill, Deputy Secretary. [FR Doc. 2014–06605 Filed 3–25–14; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 8011–01–P SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION Notice is hereby given that, pursuant to the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), the Securities and Exchange Commission (‘‘Commission’’) has submitted to the Office of Management and Budget the request for extension of the previously approved collection of information discussed below. Rule 425 (17 CFR 230.425) under the Securities Act of 1933 (15 U.S.C. 77a et seq.) requires the filing of certain prospectuses and communications VerDate Mar<15>2010 under Rule 135 (17 CFR 230.135) and Rule 165 (17 CFR 230.165) in connection with business combination transactions. The purpose of the rule is to permit more oral and written communications with shareholders about tender offers, mergers and other business combination transactions on a more timely basis, so long as the written communications are filed on the date of first use. The information provided under Rule 425 is made available to the public upon request. Also, the information provided under Rule 425 is mandatory. Approximately 2,650 issuers file communications under Rule 425 at an estimated 0.25 hours per response for a total of 663 annual burden hours (0.25 hours per response × 2,650 responses). An agency may not conduct or sponsor, and a person is not required to respond to, a collection of information unless it displays a currently valid control number. The public may view the background documentation for this information collection at the following Web site, www.reginfo.gov. Written comments regarding the above information should be directed to the following persons: (i) Desk Officer for the Securities and Exchange Commission, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and Budget, Room 10102, New Executive Office Building, Washington, DC 20503 or send an email to: Shagufta_Ahmed@ omb.eop.gov; and (ii) Thomas Bayer, Director/Chief Information Officer, Securities and Exchange Commission, c/o Remi Pavlik-Simon, 100 F Street NE., Washington, DC 20549; or send an email to: PRA_Mailbox@sec.gov. Comments must be submitted to OMB within 30 days of this notice. [OMB Control No. 3235–0313, SEC File No. 270–40] Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request Upon Written Request, Copies Available From: Securities and Exchange Commission, Office of Investor Education and Advocacy, Washington, DC 20549–0213. Extension: Rule 203–2 and Form ADV–W. PO 00000 Frm 00089 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 Notice is hereby given that, pursuant to the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), the Securities and Exchange Commission (‘‘Commission’’) has submitted to the Office of Management and Budget (‘‘OMB’’) a request for extension of the previously approved collection of information discussed below. The title for the collection of information is ‘‘Rule 203–2 (17 CFR 275.203–2) and Form ADV–W (17 CFR 279.2) under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 (15 U.S.C. 80b).’’ Rule 203– 2 under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 establishes procedures for an investment adviser to withdraw its registration with the Commission. Rule 203–2 requires every person withdrawing from investment adviser registration with the Commission to file Form ADV–W electronically on the Investment Adviser Registration Depository (‘‘IARD’’). The purpose of the information collection is to notify the Commission and the public when an investment adviser withdraws its pending or approved SEC registration. Typically, an investment adviser files a Form ADV–W when it ceases doing business or when it is ineligible to remain registered with the Commission. The potential respondents to this information collection are all investment advisers registered with the Commission. The Commission has estimated that compliance with the requirement to complete Form ADV–W imposes a total burden of approximately 0.75 hours (45 minutes) for an adviser filing for full withdrawal and approximately 0.25 hours (15 minutes) for an adviser filing for partial withdrawal. Based on historical filings, the Commission estimates that there are approximately 600 respondents annually filing for full withdrawal and approximately 200 respondents annually filing for partial withdrawal. Based on these estimates, the total estimated annual burden would be 500 hours ((600 respondents × .75 hours) + (200 respondents × .25 hours)). Rule 203–2 and Form ADV–W do not require recordkeeping or records retention. The collection of information requirements under the rule and form are mandatory. The information collected pursuant to the rule and Form ADV–W are filings with the Commission. These filings are not kept confidential. An agency may not conduct or sponsor, and a person is not required to respond to, a collection of information unless it displays a currently valid control number. The public may view the background documentation for this information collection at the following Web site, E:\FR\FM\26MRN1.SGM 26MRN1 Federal Register / Vol. 79, No. 58 / Wednesday, March 26, 2014 / Notices www.reginfo.gov. Comments should be directed to: (i) Desk Officer for the Securities and Exchange Commission, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and Budget, Room 10102, New Executive Office Building, Washington, DC 20503, or by sending an email to: Shagufta_ Ahmed@omb.eop.gov; and (ii) Thomas Bayer, Chief Information Officer, Securities and Exchange Commission, c/o Remi Pavlik-Simon, 100 F Street NE., Washington, DC 20549 or send an email to: PRA_Mailbox@sec.gov. Comments must be submitted to OMB within 30 days of this notice. Dated: March 20, 2014. Kevin M. O’Neill, Deputy Secretary. [FR Doc. 2014–06604 Filed 3–25–14; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 8011–01–P SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION [Investment Company Act Release No. 30986; File No. 812–14231] Virtus Alternative Solutions Trust and Virtus Alternative Investment Advisers, Inc.; Notice of Application March 19, 2014. Securities and Exchange Commission (‘‘Commission’’). ACTION: Notice of an application under section 6(c) of the Investment Company Act of 1940 (‘‘Act’’) for an exemption from section 15(a) of the Act and rule 18f–2 under the Act, as well as from certain disclosure requirements. AGENCY: Summary of Application: Applicants request an order that would permit them to enter into and materially amend subadvisory agreements with Wholly-Owned Sub-Advisors (as defined below) and non-affiliated subadvisors without shareholder approval and would grant relief from certain disclosure requirements. APPLICANTS: Virtus Alternative Solutions Trust (‘‘Trust’’) and Virtus Alternative Investment Advisers, Inc. (‘‘Advisor’’). FILING DATES: The application was filed on November 5, 2013, and amended on February 19, 2014 and March 17, 2014. HEARING OR NOTIFICATION OF HEARING: An order granting the application will be issued unless the Commission orders a hearing. Interested persons may request a hearing by writing to the Commission’s Secretary and serving applicants with a copy of the request, personally or by mail. Hearing requests should be received by the Commission by 5:30 p.m. on April 14, 2014, and should be accompanied by proof of sroberts on DSK5SPTVN1PROD with NOTICES SUMMARY: VerDate Mar<15>2010 17:43 Mar 25, 2014 Jkt 232001 service on applicants, in the form of an affidavit or, for lawyers, a certificate of service. Hearing requests should state the nature of the writer’s interest, the reason for the request, and the issues contested. Persons who wish to be notified of a hearing may request notification by writing to the Commission’s Secretary. ADDRESSES: Secretary, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, 100 F Street NE., Washington, DC 20549–1090. Applicants, 100 Pearl Street, Hartford, CT 06103. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Courtney S. Thornton, Senior Counsel, at (202) 551–6812, or David P. Bartels, Branch Chief, at (202) 551–6821 (Division of Investment Management, Chief Counsel’s Office). SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The following is a summary of the application. The complete application may be obtained via the Commission’s Web site by searching for the file number or for an applicant using the Company name box, at https:// www.sec.gov/search/search.htm or by calling (202) 551–8090. Applicants’ Representations 1. The Trust is organized as a Delaware statutory trust and is registered under the Act as an open-end management investment company. The Trust currently comprises three series of shares (each, a ‘‘Series’’), each of which has its own investment objectives, policies and restrictions and may offer one or more classes of shares that are subject to different expenses. None of the Series have yet commenced operations. 2. The Advisor, a corporation organized under the laws of the state of Connecticut, is registered as an investment adviser under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 (‘‘Advisers Act’’). The Advisor is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Virtus Investment Partners, Inc., a publicly traded multi-manager asset management business. 3. Applicants request an order to permit the Advisor, subject to the approval of the Board, including a majority of the members of the Board who are not ‘‘interested persons,’’ as defined in section 2(a)(19) of the Act, of the Series or the Manager (‘‘Independent Board Members’’), to, without obtaining shareholder approval: (i) Select SubAdvisors to manage all or a portion of the assets of a Series and enter into SubAdvisory Agreements (as defined below) with the Sub-Advisors,1 and (ii) 1 A ‘‘Sub-Advisor’’ is (a) an indirect or direct ‘‘wholly-owned subsidiary’’ (as such term is PO 00000 Frm 00090 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 16843 materially amend Sub-Advisory Agreements with the Sub-Advisors.2 Applicants request that the relief apply to the named applicants, as well as to any future Series and any other existing or future registered open-end management investment company or series thereof that is advised by the Advisor or its successors, uses the multi-manager structure described in the application, and complies with the terms and conditions of the application (‘‘Subadvised Series’’).3 The requested relief will not extend to any sub-advisor, other than a Wholly-Owned SubAdvisor, who is an affiliated person, as defined in section 2(a)(3) of the Act, of the Subadvised Series or of the Advisor, other than by reason of serving as a subadvisor to one or more of the Subadvised Series (‘‘Affiliated SubAdvisor’’). 4. Each Series has, or will have, as its investment adviser, the Advisor or its successor. The Advisor will serve as the investment adviser to each Series pursuant to an investment advisory agreement with the Trust (‘‘Investment Management Agreement’). The Investment Management Agreement for each Series will be approved by the board of trustees of the Trust (‘‘Board’’),4 including a majority of the Independent Board Members, and by defined in the Act) of the Advisor for that Series; (b) a sister company of the Advisor for that Series that is an indirect or direct ‘‘wholly-owned subsidiary’’ (as such term is defined in the Act) of the same company that, indirectly or directly, wholly owns the Advisor (each of (a) and (b), a ‘‘Wholly-Owned Sub-Advisor’’ and collectively, the ‘‘Wholly-Owned Sub-Advisors’’), or (c) an investment sub-advisor for that Series that is not an ‘‘affiliated person’’ (as such term is defined in section 2(a)(3) of the Act) of the Series or the Advisor, except to the extent that an affiliation arises solely because the sub-advisor serves as a sub-advisor to a Series (each, a ‘‘Non-Affiliated SubAdvisor’’). Each Sub-Advisor will be registered with the Commission under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 or exempt from such registration. 2 Shareholder approval will continue to be required for any other sub-advisor change (not otherwise permitted by applicable law or by rule) and material amendments to an existing SubAdvisory Agreement with any sub-advisor other than a Non-Affiliated Sub-Advisor or a WhollyOwned Sub-Advisor (all such changes referred to as ‘‘Ineligible Sub-Advisor Changes’’). 3 For purposes of the requested order, ‘‘successor’’ is limited to an entity that results from a reorganization into another jurisdiction or a change in the type of business organization. All registered open-end investment companies that currently intend to rely on the requested order are named as applicants. Any entity that relies on the requested order will do so only in accordance with the terms and conditions contained in the application. If the name of any Subadvised Series contains the name of a Sub-Advisor (as defined below), the name of the Advisor, or a trademark or trade name that is owned by or publicly used to identify that Advisor, will precede the name of the Sub-Advisor. 4 The term ‘‘Board’’ also includes the board of trustees or directors of a future Subadvised Series. E:\FR\FM\26MRN1.SGM 26MRN1

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[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 58 (Wednesday, March 26, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Pages 16842-16843]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-06604]


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SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

[OMB Control No. 3235-0313, SEC File No. 270-40]


Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request

Upon Written Request, Copies Available From: Securities and Exchange 
Commission, Office of Investor Education and Advocacy, Washington, DC 
20549-0213.

Extension:
    Rule 203-2 and Form ADV-W.

    Notice is hereby given that, pursuant to the Paperwork Reduction 
Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), the Securities and Exchange 
Commission (``Commission'') has submitted to the Office of Management 
and Budget (``OMB'') a request for extension of the previously approved 
collection of information discussed below.
    The title for the collection of information is ``Rule 203-2 (17 CFR 
275.203-2) and Form ADV-W (17 CFR 279.2) under the Investment Advisers 
Act of 1940 (15 U.S.C. 80b).'' Rule 203-2 under the Investment Advisers 
Act of 1940 establishes procedures for an investment adviser to 
withdraw its registration with the Commission. Rule 203-2 requires 
every person withdrawing from investment adviser registration with the 
Commission to file Form ADV-W electronically on the Investment Adviser 
Registration Depository (``IARD''). The purpose of the information 
collection is to notify the Commission and the public when an 
investment adviser withdraws its pending or approved SEC registration. 
Typically, an investment adviser files a Form ADV-W when it ceases 
doing business or when it is ineligible to remain registered with the 
Commission.
    The potential respondents to this information collection are all 
investment advisers registered with the Commission. The Commission has 
estimated that compliance with the requirement to complete Form ADV-W 
imposes a total burden of approximately 0.75 hours (45 minutes) for an 
adviser filing for full withdrawal and approximately 0.25 hours (15 
minutes) for an adviser filing for partial withdrawal. Based on 
historical filings, the Commission estimates that there are 
approximately 600 respondents annually filing for full withdrawal and 
approximately 200 respondents annually filing for partial withdrawal. 
Based on these estimates, the total estimated annual burden would be 
500 hours ((600 respondents x .75 hours) + (200 respondents x .25 
hours)).
    Rule 203-2 and Form ADV-W do not require recordkeeping or records 
retention. The collection of information requirements under the rule 
and form are mandatory. The information collected pursuant to the rule 
and Form ADV-W are filings with the Commission. These filings are not 
kept confidential. An agency may not conduct or sponsor, and a person 
is not required to respond to, a collection of information unless it 
displays a currently valid control number.
    The public may view the background documentation for this 
information collection at the following Web site,

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www.reginfo.gov. Comments should be directed to: (i) Desk Officer for 
the Securities and Exchange Commission, Office of Information and 
Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and Budget, Room 10102, New 
Executive Office Building, Washington, DC 20503, or by sending an email 
to: Shagufta_Ahmed@omb.eop.gov; and (ii) Thomas Bayer, Chief 
Information Officer, Securities and Exchange Commission, c[sol]o Remi 
Pavlik-Simon, 100 F Street NE., Washington, DC 20549 or send an email 
to: PRA_Mailbox@sec.gov. Comments must be submitted to OMB within 30 
days of this notice.

    Dated: March 20, 2014.
Kevin M. O'Neill,
Deputy Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2014-06604 Filed 3-25-14; 8:45 am]
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