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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.
If you could wave a magic wand and make one change to improve the industry, what would it be? We posed that question to your ...
David Trujillo owes his job to what a security guard spotted in the parking lot of his firm’s office. A competitor sat in a car ...
Arguments are scheduled next week in a federal court case in Washington, D.C. that could negate the SEC’s ability to hold investment advisers to its ...
Amerivest Investment Management ($7.4B in AUM) in Omaha, Neb., has so much confidence in its subadviser, Morningstar Associates ($12.8B in AUM) in Chicago, that it’s ...
A rash of recent cases demonstrates the risks in tacking on excessive fees in addition to commissions (IA Watch, Aug. 19, 2014). Anthony Blumberg, the ...
This is a copy of the sweep letter OCIE has used as part of its effort to examine advisers that manage so-called alternative mutual funds. ...
The client was sharp enough to warn his adviser that his e-mail had been hacked “and to be on the lookout” for a fraudulent request ...
Consultants performing mock exams are dialed in to the SEC’s most recent document request letters and the regulator’s specific records sought (IA Watch, Aug. 11, ...
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