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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.
This is a copy of an SEC document request letter sent to an advisory firm in 2014.
Click here to open a Word file that is an example of policies and procedures for the SEC's whistleblower rule. These come with permission of ...
An easy out for many compliance staff given the duty to train firm employees on gifts and entertainment rules is to adopt the lowest regulatory ...
It’s been about one year since the SEC granted the first exemptive order to an adviser that had inadvertently violated the pay-to-play rule (IA Watch, ...
You’ve no doubt struggled with the SEC’s complex custody rule but nothing like Sands Brothers Asset Management ($64M in AUM) in New York. Its troubles ...
Only a few months after the SEC charged an investment adviser with falsely claiming compliance with the Global Investment Performance Standards (IA Watch, June 2, ...
It’s not often the SEC takes a requirement off the board. This week’s announcement that the agency’s virtually eliminating the Investment Company Act exemption related ...
Click here to open a PDF from the NSCP with directions for how to Bates stamp PDF documents. This is shared with permission of the ...
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