U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. In addition to the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 that created it, the SEC enforces the Securities Act of 1933, the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, the Investment Company Act of 1940, the Investment Advisers Act of 1940, the Sarbanes–Oxley Act of 2002, and other statutes.
The SEC was created by Section 4 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (now codified as 15 U.S.C. § 78d and commonly referred to as the Exchange Act or the 1934 Act). Overview[edit] The regulatory agency was created during the Great Depression that followed the Crash of 1929. SEC. SEC, Sec, or Seč may refer to: Sports[edit] Southeastern Conference (SEC), one of the major U.S. collegiate sports conferencesSpeedway European Championship, motorcycle speedway competition Government[edit]
