SEC Rule 2a-5 provides a framework for the fair valuation of portfolio investments by registered funds and business development companies. ICE ‘s Rule 2a-5 portal was designed to assist clients who use ICE evaluations to value holdings in their portfolio to comply with various requirements of Rule 2a-5, including good faith determinations of fair value.
As part of the portal offerings, ICE offers transparency into our evaluated pricing methodology and offers a robust challenge process to support price justification for due diligence requirements.
Specifications
Key Features
- For certain asset classes, ICE can provide back-testing of evaluations to historical trade data. Automated back-testing reporting of client portfolios is available in order to support a fund’s due diligence requirements for pricing providers.
- ICE provides price challenge reports to evaluation clients, outlining overall evaluation challenges. Clients can also receive a challenge report applicable to only their portfolio’s holdings, providing transparency into affirmation rates.
- ICE offers ICE Liquidity IndicatorsTM and scores to help monitor key risks of market liquidity applicable to a client’s portfolio.
- ICE’s Best Execution service, including Transaction Cost Analysis, provides quality metrics and odd-lot price adjustments to help funds monitor for price reliability.
- ICE’s Fair Value Leveling services provides additional granularity to securities categorized as Level 2, breaking those securities into 3 sub-categories based on availability of market data, allowing a fund to prioritize its due diligence resources.
Products
The evolution of our file-based offering. Bringing together, in a unified solution Corporate Actions, Reference Data, Analytics and our wealth of pricing datasets including ICE Evaluations, CEP, Fair Value Information Services & Listed Market Pricing.