The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is announcing a notice regarding applications for deregistration under Section 8(f) of the Investment Company Act of 1940, specifically for February 2025. A unit investment trust, named FSL Separate Account M, has applied for an order declaring that it is no longer an investment company, as it currently has 96 beneficial owners and does not offer or plan to offer securities. The filing for this application was made on July 1, 2024, and the applicant operates as a private investment fund under section 3(c)(1) of the Act. Public comments or hearing requests can be submitted until March 25, 2025.
Simple Explanation
There's a company that has stopped selling special money packets, and now they want to be known as a private club for certain people who already have these packets. They asked the grown-up helpers who watch over companies to officially mark them as no longer a company that sells these packets.