As with exams over the past year, the DOE quizzed about the use of electronic communications for business purposes
Firms must e-mail the DOL by Sept. 15th at QPAM@dol.gov, including “the legal name of the entity and any name the QPAM may be operating ...
The Division encourages advisers to reflect upon their own practices, policies, and procedures and to implement any appropriate modifications to their training, supervisory, oversight, and ...
The resounding message is don't advertise hypothetical performance on your public websites
A source tells us of a new inquiry seen in a current exam. Examiners are probing the use of so-called 'shared work platforms,' like Google ...
You may not always agree with your regulator’s stance but you often have little choice but to heed it
Compliance officers must remain vigilant, and their bosses need to provide “the proper resources” to compliance departments, counseled the SEC Division of Examinations Director Richard ...
This final rule modernizes the internet advisers' rules to account for the evolution in technology and the investment advisory industry since the initial adoption of ...
Heed the lessons of the SEC’s latest off-channel communications enforcement action against an adviser and you may well sidestep a similar fate
This is a fundamental violation of an investment advisers’ fiduciary duty to act in the best interest of its clients, according to the judge