On November 16, 2015, the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) issued administrative and cease and desist proceedings against Virtus Investment Advisers, Inc. (“Virtus”) for marketing a “materially inflated, and hypothetical and back-tested, performance track record” of one of its sub-advisers, … Read More
Unauthorized Access Cybersecurity is essentially a regime to prevent unauthorized access. Authorized users are authenticated most commonly via a username and password. However, requiring just a password with a username for access is considered a weak protection control. Weak because … Read More
On October 22, 2015, the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) released information on the enforcement cases they’ve brought during their 2015 fiscal year, which ended on September 30, 2015. The results as compared to 2014, including an additional 52 cases … Read More
On October 8, 2015, the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”), approved changes to Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc. (“FINRA”) Rule 2210 requiring FINRA member firms that have retail clients to include a link to FINRA’s BrokerCheck on their websites. BrokerCheck … Read More
In every walk of life, manual functions are being automated and securities compliance is no exception. This trend will likely continue, and for good reason: automation can create efficiency, improve accuracy and increase capacity. In this update we will address some of … Read More
Majority Opinion of the Commission On October 2, 2015, the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) issued an Opinion of the Commission in the matter of Raymond J. Lucia Companies, Inc. and Raymond J. Lucia, Sr regarding the backtested performance of … Read More
Recently, the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) charged Focus Media Holding Limited (“Focus”) and its CEO, Jason Jiang, with surrounding the partial sale of a subsidiary. According to the press release, the China-based company and Jiang” violated an antifraud provision … Read More
Over the last year, cybersecurity has been a top focus for the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) prompting them to issue various guidance to financial firms in the way of risk alerts and guidance statements, and to investors via investor … Read More
