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Marc is senior counsel in the firm's Corporate Transactions & Securities practice group. He focuses his practice on the areas of Investment Management and Business Litigation.

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For nearly a decade now, regulators have placed the Chief Compliance Officer (“CCO”) squarely within the sights of enforcement, on the logic that holding CCO’s individually liable for violations would prompt robust compliance programs, and deter lackluster supervision. The reasonableness of such assumptions is a topic for a different post.  However, despite these drastically raised the stakes

signOur recent posts have walked you through the SEC’s new marketing rule and discussed valuation and fee assessment. Now, with the ADV season, hopefully, in your rear-view mirror, we turn your attention to planning for the remainder of the year. Determining the most efficient use of a compliance department’s time and resources is essential. Fortunately,

Growth ChartToday we continue our discussion of the SEC’s recent changes to the Advertising Rule. In our last post, Josh covered the general definitional changes and prohibitions. In this entry, we will highlight the new Advertising Rule’s impact on performance advertising.

As we have discussed, the amended rule consolidates and supersedes former rules 206(4)-1 and

Custody

By Marc B. Minor

Investment advisers, rightly, focus much of their attention on satisfying their fiduciary duty through careful investment recommendations. However, advisers’ duties also include ensuring that client cash and securities are transferred for investment, and held, safely by the custodian of those assets.

For robo-advisers, client onboarding, facilitating the transfer of funds and

ledgerOur blog recently discussed how soft dollar arrangements can impact the bottom line for both advisers and investors, and therefore require adequate disclosure. Other compliance requirements involve non-client facing operations, but are equally important to monitoring and protecting against conflicts of interest. The Personal Trading Policy is one such requirement.

The Investment Advisers Act and