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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 lot of broker-dealers are wary of using social media as a promotional tool, either because they don’t understand the pertinent regulations or they’re scared ...
These are instructions for how to conduct a transaction analysis for forensic testing around trading. This comes courtesy of Krista Zipfel, CEO/president of Advisor Solutions ...
An SEC ALJ has directed legal filings for next week after he revealed that the former CCO of Sands Brothers Asset Management ($64M in AUM) ...
An emboldened SEC targeting compliance officers. More and tougher deficiencies on exams. A greater focus on private equity fund advisers’ fees and expenses. OCIE guidance ...
The to-do list at Plan Member Securities Corp. ($3B in AUM) in Carpinteria, Calif., includes beefing up the firm’s cybersecurity protocol. Daniel Murphy, VP/CCO at ...
2015 Regulatory Calendar for RIAs There’s much talk about what will happen this year (see the story on page 1). Below is a list of ...
SEC Chair Mary Jo White has asked Commission staff to conduct an evaluation of the concept of permitting third party audits or compliance reviews of ...
Whatever the Financial Stability Oversight Council’s next move is toward regulating asset managers, it will be aided by comments from the industry, says Karen Barr, ...
It’s permissible for “non-key employees” of family office advisers to engage in “purely administrative duties,” such as preparing and filing taxes for a trust, keeping ...
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