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Carl Ayers

Carl Ayers Carl Ayers, Publisher | 202-908-6194 | cayers@regcompliancewatch.com Carl has been the publisher of Regulatory Compliance Watch since 2008. He has won several national journalism awards, including for investigative reporting. In 2018, Ayers won two awards - a second place award for Best Spot News for a story reporting Form ADV developments ahead of the SEC (IA Watch, July 6, 2017), and a third place award for Best Investigative Reporting for a series on an adviser that initially fought SEC charges (IA Watch, July 27, 2017). He has worked at newspapers, in television news and in healthcare journalism. Carl hails from New Jersey, earned his master's degree from Northwestern University and enjoys playing guitar, working out and pursuing golf.
The recipe’s as simple as baking Christmas cookies: do what you’ve promised investors in writing that you’ll do.   Violating this simple rule cost private ...
Do you have written supervisory procedures for IRA rollovers? If not, you aren’t alone. One in five advisors and broker-dealers recently examined by the SEC ...
Mark July 21, 2017 on your calendar if you run a proprietary fund owned by a bank. That’s the final date for certain private funds ...
2004 was the first year that the SEC granted broker-dealers relief under Exchange Act rule 17a-8 (financial recordkeeping and reporting of currency and foreign transactions) ...
A peer passes on a copy of the adviser's SEC document request letter from an exam that occurred in the south.
To provide immunity from suit for certain individuals who disclose potential examples of financial exploitation of senior citizens, and for other purposes.
It’s not often the U.S. Supreme Court agrees on a topic unanimously but it did so Dec. 6th in upholding a lower court’s insider trading ...
‘Tis the season for joy – and it seems OCIE exams of advisers. We’ve heard the same thing from many people across the country over ...
Congress via Dodd-Frank in 2010 ordered the CFTC to set position limits for derivatives as a way to limit excessive speculation. The CFTC has now ...
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