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from The Advisor's Professional Library- Use and Misuse of Social Media Social media is an inexpensive and effective way to communicate with established and prospective clients. Nevertheless, when RIAs utilize social media to promote their advisory practices, they risk compliance problems for their firms.
- Registration Requirements for Investment Advisor Representatives (IARs) When individuals launch an advisory firm, they must avoid marketing themselves or the firm as investment advisors before they are properly approved and registered. Otherwise, they are subject to severe penalties.
The Securities and Exchange Commission proposed rules on Friday stemming from the Dodd-Frank Act. The new rules would require hedge funds and other private funds to register with the commission, increase the threshold for the SEC’s oversight of advisors to $100 million in assets from $25 million (resulting in the switching of 4,100 advisors to state oversight), and create new data warehouses for swaps transactions.
The proposed rules issued on Nov. 19 would also define venture capital funds, SEC Chairman Mary Schapiro said in her opening statements at the Nov. 19 meeting. Early next year, Schapiro said, the SEC will take up a proposed rule to consider the systemic risk of private fund advisors. The Commodities Future Trading Commission (CFTC) issued on the same day its own proposal on swaps data repositories.
The Commission proposed rules on Nov. 19 that would implement new exemptions from the registration requirements of the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 for advisors to venture capital funds and advisors with less than $150 million in private fund assets under management in the United States. A loophole currently exists in Dodd-Frank which exempts private fund firms with from $100 million to $150 million from registering with the SEC.
The SEC is seeking comments on all of the proposed rules.
