Category Archives: Third-Party Compliance Audit
 

SEC Backing Off Proposal to Require Third-Party Compliance Audits

May 27, 2009

According to a recent article in Investment News which quotes an official of the Financial Planning Association (“FPA”), the chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”), Mary Schapiro, is backing off of her previously discussed, but never formerly considered by the SEC, proposal to require each federally registered investment adviser to engage a third-party to conduct an annual compliance audit of the investment adviser.

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SEC Will Consider This Week: New Controls for Registered Investment Advisers with Custody

May 13, 2009

In a speech to the Investment Company Institute last week, the Chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”), Mary Schapiro, noted that “[n]ext week [the SEC] will consider rule proposals for significant enhancements to controls around investment adviser custody of customer assets, to reduce dramatically the possibility that frauds like Madoff might happen again at a registered broker-dealer or investment adviser.”

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