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SEC Compliance Consultants, Inc. (SEC³)

Top Compliance Program Mistakes (and How to Avoid Them) (Part 1 of 2)

Chief Compliance Officers face the challenge of running a comprehensive yet efficient compliance program that nimbly adapts to changing regulatory requirements and business practices. As compliance consultants, we see our...more

Snell & Wilmer

SEC Division of Examinations Priorities for 2025: Examinations Will Prioritize New Rules for Form PF and Regulation S-P, Fiduciary...

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On October 21, 2024, the Division of Examinations (the “Division”) of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) issued its annual examination priorities for fiscal year 2025. As with its 2024 examination...more

Royer Cooper Cohen Braunfeld LLC

The New Marketing Rule: Notes from the Field

On April 17th, the SEC issued a Risk Alert titled “Initial Observations Regarding Advisers Act Marketing Rule Compliance.” Perusing the list of failures, a sense of familiarity arose, given that one of our clients had been...more

Lowenstein Sandler LLP

SEC Finds Advisers' Compliance with Marketing Rule Still Lacking Despite Examination and Enforcement Focus

Rule 206(4)-1, as amended (the Marketing Rule), continues to be an area of focus for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). On April 17, 2024, the SEC Division of Examinations (Division) published a risk alert...more

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SEC Division of Examinations Publishes 2024 Examination Priorities

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On October 16, 2023, the Division of Examinations (the “Division”) of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) published its annual Examination Priorities for 2024 (the “Exam Priorities”). Consistent with the...more

Lowenstein Sandler LLP

SEC’s 2024 Examination Priorities for Investment Advisers

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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Division of Examinations (the Division) recently released its annual Examination Priorities for fiscal year 2024 (the Report). The Report underlines the Division’s focus on...more

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2024 Examination Priorities for Investment Advisers from SEC Division of Examinations

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The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Division of Examinations recently released its 2024 Examinations Priorities, a yearly report that provides insight into the Division’s areas of focus to improve compliance,...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

The SEC Renews its Emphasis on Compliance with the New Marketing Rule

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On June 8, 2023, the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (“SEC”) Division of Examinations (“Division”) released a risk alert (the “Risk Alert”) outlining the SEC’s broadened examination priorities with respect to revised...more

Paul Hastings LLP

SEC Publishes Risk Alert Highlighting Focus on New Marketing Rule

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On September 19, 2022, the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Division of Examinations (the “SEC”) published a Risk Alert announcing its intent to conduct examinations focused on compliance with Rule 206(4)-1 (the...more

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP

SEC’s focus on compliance: What boards should know

Rule 38a-1 under the Investment Company Act of 1940 (the 1940 Act) requires funds to review their compliance programs, as well of those of their service providers, including their investment advisers (advisers), annually....more

Proskauer Rose LLP

OCIE Issues Risk Alert on Common Deficiencies Observed in Adviser Compliance Programs

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On November 19, 2020, the SEC published a risk alert providing an overview of notable compliance issues identified by the agency’s Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations (“OCIE”) under Rule 206(4)-7 (the...more

King & Spalding

Investment Adviser Settles SEC Cybersecurity Enforcement Action; SEC Issues Investor Alert

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On September 22, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) and R.T. Jones Capital Equities Management, Inc. (“R.T. Jones”), a St. Louis-based investment adviser, settled charges that R.T. Jones failed to adopt...more

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