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from The Advisor's Professional Library- Dealings With Qualified Clients and Accredited Investors Depending upon an RIAs business model and investment strategies, it may be important to identify “qualified clients” and “accredited investors.” The Dodd-Frank Act authorized the SEC to change which clients are defined by those terms.
- Code of Ethics Rule The Code of Ethics Rule, found in Rule 204A-1, uses severe consequences for violation to help ensure investment advisors will do the right thing.
The SEC announced that Charles Fishkin, who helped create the Commission's Office of Risk Assessment under-then Chairman Bill Donaldson in 2004 and propagated an agency-wide risk management program designed to make the regulator more proactive, will leave the Commission in the new year to take a position in New York with AllianceBernstein. The agency said Fishkin, a former Fidelity Investments' executive, will help SEC Chairman Christopher Cox in "identifying a successor."
Another personnel change at the SEC might be of interest. The associate director of the Commission's Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations (OCIE), John McCarthy, who joined the SEC in 1992, left the Commission in November to join what the agency said was a "privately held proprietary trading firm."
