I occasionally get calls from people looking to hire compliance personnel. Here is the latest: Private Equity firm looking to expand its compliance team Senior compliance role reporting to the CCO Company is a prominent PE firm based in TX with a large office in San Francisco Knowledge of Investment Advisers Act essential Experience reviewing [...]
Archive | April, 2011
Compliance Bits and Pieces for April 29
Here are some recent compliance-related stories that caught my eye: SFO GC resigns: SFO future cast into further doubt in The Bribery Act .com We’re delighted to congratulate Vivian Robinson QC on his reported move today from the SFO to join a US law firm, Richmond Virginia headquartered McGuire Woods, in the near future. We’ve [...]
Risk Disclosures and Form ADV Part 2 for Fund Managers
If you’re a fund manager getting ready to register because you’ve been Dodd-Frank’ed, then you are likely in the middle of drafting Part 2 of Form ADV, the brochure. One item that caused my to pause was the risk factor requirements in Item 8. 8.B: For each significant investment strategy or method of analysis you [...]
The Case for Executive Assistants
Why would you pay managers big salaries and then ask them to make their own hotel reservations? Since it’s Administrative Professionals Day, a story in this month’s Harvard Business Review caught my eye: The Case for Executive Assistants. (Now looking at the Administrative Professionals’ website, I see it has grown from being mere a day [...]
Turning Your PowerPoint into an Advertisement
Once a fund manager is registered, Rule 206(4)-1 imposes additional restrictions on advertising that the SEC has determined would be fraudulent deceptive or manipulative. That means public presentations could be considered an advertisement. First I want to look back at the definition of an “advertisement” for purposes of the rule. An advertisement for purposes of [...]
Fees and Performance Results for Advisers and Fund Managers
Section 206 of the Investment Advisers Act prohibits fraud, deception or manipulation, regardless of whether the fund manager is registered. Once registered, Rule 206(4)-1 imposes additional restrictions on advertising that the SEC has determined would be fraudulent, deceptive or manipulative. The first item on the list of fraudulent, deceptive or manipulative practices is testimonials, which [...]
Compliance Bits and Pieces – Good Friday Edition
The stock markets are closed, but most banks are open. I’m taking the day off from work, but wanted to highlight a few compliance-related stories that caught my eye. Justice is served, but more so after lunch: how food-breaks sway the decisions of judges by Ed Yong in Discover’s Not Exactly Rocket Science There’s an [...]
Performance Results in Fund Brochures
Section 206 of the Investment Advisers Act prohibits fraud, deception or manipulation, regardless of whether the fund manager is registered. Once registered, Rule 206(4)-1 imposes additional restrictions on advertising that the SEC has determined would be fraudulent, deceptive or manipulative. The first item on the list of fraudulent, deceptive or manipulative practices is testimonials, which [...]
Ratings and Fund Managers
Investment advisers, and therefore fund managers once they register as investment advisers, are limited in how they advertise. Section 206 of the Investment Advisers Act already prohibits fraud, deception or manipulation, regardless of whether the fund manager is registered. Once registered, Rule 206(4)-1 imposes additional restrictions on advertising that the SEC has determined would be [...]
Client Lists and Private Fund Managers
Section 206 of the Investment Advisers Act prohibits fraud, deception or manipulation, regardless of whether the fund manager is registered. Once registered, Rule 206(4)-1 imposes additional restrictions on advertising that the SEC has determined would be fraudulent deceptive or manipulative. The first item on the list of restrictions is testimonials. This prohibition reflects the concern [...]
