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Review of SEC’s Process for Selecting Adviser Examination Targets

To continue the Madoff dogpile on the SEC, the SEC’s Office of Inspector General released a report criticizing the SEC’s process for selecting investment advisers and investment companies for examination. Review of the Commission’s Processes for Selecting Investment Advisers and Investment Companies for Examination As a result of OCIE never having examined Madoff’s investment firm, [...]

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SEC’s Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations Gets a Review

The SEC’s Division of Enforcement was not alone in getting a report from the SEC’s Inspector General: Improvements Needed Within the SEC’s Division of Enforcement. The Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations also got a review from the Inspector General: Review and Analysis of OCIE Examinations of Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities, LLC. For this [...]

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Improvements Needed Within the SEC’s Division of Enforcement

The SEC’s Inspector General, H. David Kotz, released his most recent report: Program Improvements Needed Within the SEC’s Division of Enforcement. The report is sort of a follow-up to the Madoff Report. The Office of the Inspector General conducted a review “to identify systemic issues that would prevent Enforcement from accomplishing its mission to enforce [...]

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