The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has instructed Macquarie Investment Management Business Trust (MIMBT) to pay nearly $80 million for fraudulent behavior. The SEC has found MIMBT guilty of antifraud and compliance provisions of the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 and parts of the Investment Company Act of 1940. “It is alarming that a fiduciary took advantage of retail mutual funds it advised and executed unlawful cross trades to mitigate its overvaluation of fund assets,” said Eric I. Bustillo, Director of the SEC’s Miami Regional Office. “Utilizing a third-party pricing service doe…