Archive | March, 2011
Incentive Compensation Limitations and Disclosures for Private Fund Managers

Incentive Compensation Limitations and Disclosures for Private Fund Managers

At the Wednesday March 2 Open Meeting, the Securities and Exchange Commission voted to approve a new rule that would affect incentive compensation paid to employees of investment advisers and broker-dealers. Commissioners Casey and Paredes voted against proposing the rule as drafted. The other three voted to move the proposed rule into the comment period. [...]

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Greater Boston Real Estate CCO Forum

Are you running a real estate fund and wondering what do about registering with the Securities and Exchange Commission? Are you near Boston? If your answers are yes and yes, join a group of CCOs who are getting together on an informal basis to discuss the issues. Our next meeting is Thursday, March 3 at [...]

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Is Madoff a Sociopath?

The New York magazine interview with Bernie Madoff has finally been published.  Steve Fishman spoke with Madoff on the phone (collect calls from Madoff’s prison) for several hours. And so, sitting alone with his therapist, in the prison khakis he irons himself, he seeks reassurance. “Everybody on the outside kept claiming I was a sociopath,” [...]

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