More On Legal & Compliance
from The Advisor's Professional Library- Anti-Fraud Provisions of the Investment Advisers Act RIAs and IARs should view themselves as fiduciaries at all times, whether they meet the legal definition or not. Deviating from the fiduciary standard of full disclosure while courting clients may cause the advisor significant problems.
- The Few and the Proud: Chief Compliance Officers CCOs make significant contributions to success of an RIA, designing and implementing compliance programs that prevent, detect and correct securities law violations. When major compliance problems occur at firms, CCOs will likely receive regulatory consequences.
Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), the ranking Republican on the Senate Finance Committee, introduced the Hedge Fund Registration Act on May 15, legislation that would require hedge funds to register with the SEC. Grassley's bill comes on the heels of a D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling last year that overturned the SEC's rule requiring such registration.
The Act "would enable the Securities and Exchange Commission to do what it was already trying to do," Grassley said in introducing the bill, and "gives members of Congress the opportunity to say there should be greater transparency with hedge funds."
Grassley surveyed federal agencies about hedge fund transparency last October. Earlier this year, he joined in requesting a review by the Government Accountability Office of the scope of public and private pension plan investments in hedge funds and what returns and risks are likely for worker retirement funds. In March, Grassley filed legislation similar to the legislation introduced today as an amendment to S.4, the 9-11 homeland security legislation.
