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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.
A summer that’s included several actions against investment advisers that feature wrap fee programs produced two more cases that suggest you should monitor and report ...
It’s been said that examiners from the National Futures Association are generally easier to work with than SEC examiners. That view gains credence with the ...
The CFTC now has memoranda of understanding with its regulatory counterparts north and south of the U.S. border. The Commission has announced its latest MOU, ...
The percentage of salary growth may have topped revenues’, but the latest Form 990 report from the Investment Adviser Association attests to vigorous growth under ...
You can never have too much help getting ready for an exam. Here are some key do’s and don’ts from a top FINRA examiner and ...
This is a copy of a 2016 exam letter sent to an adviser from the SEC's Philadelphia Regional Office.
The SEC has taken a major step toward improving the depth of information it collects on investment advisers by adopting August 25 a slew of ...
The SEC admits in its new final rule amending Form ADV that it’s revising the 55-year-old Advisers Act’s books and records rule because of lessons ...
When SEC examiners announced two years ago that they were coming in, PE fund adviser WL Ross & Co. ($4.5B in AUM) reviewed its approach ...
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