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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.
That Blackstreet Capital Management case from June, in which the SEC argued again that a private equity fund adviser receiving transaction-based compensation should register as ...
The road appears to be ending for an ERISA lawsuit that claimed Fidelity violated its fiduciary status by using float income created through plan transactions ...
This flow chart, designed by Brent Nicks, CCO at Wunderlich Securities in Memphis, is designed to help arrive at the proper exemption under the DOL's ...
New Rule 901(a)(2)(i) of Regulation SBSR requires a registered clearing agency to report any security-based swap to which it is a counterparty. The Commission is ...
FINRA has no qualms about aggressively prosecuting AML cases involving the microcap business. That message was delivered by the SRO’s enforcement executive VP Brad Bennett ...
Small can be beautiful but things can get ugly when it comes to finding all the resources you need to do your job. Compliance officials ...
What are the priorities for FINRA’s market regulation department? Where will its vaunted surveillance group turn up next? What should you expect from its new ...
The foresight inherent in decreeing that investment advisers have written business continuity and transition plans could be seen as quickly as a look to the ...
The SEC has long trained its sights on wrap fee programs (IA Watch, Aug. 4, 2014). The latest example of its interest can be seen ...
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