In this age of technology, advertising and marketing by investment advisers can be very economical and the venues numerous. Advisers utilize websites, social media, blogs and blast messages as their main distribution channels and all of these mediums have far … Read More
The New World of Compliance Core Compliance & Legal Services, Inc. (“Core Compliance”) will hold its annual symposium on Thursday, November 3rd, 2016, at the Sheraton Park Hotel in Anaheim, CA. (Across the street from Disneyland!)
On June 16th, the House Financial Services Committee approved H.R. 5424, the “Investment Advisers Modernization Act of 2016.” The proposed bill primarily provides relief to private fund advisers, but also includes provisions applicable to investment advisers that don’t manage private … Read More
With Tina L. Mitchell, Lead Sr. Compliance Consultant | Performance advertising is a high focus area for SEC exams. Press play to learn more.
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
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
The CFA Institute recently released its Guidance Statement on the Application of the Global Investment Performance Standards (GIPS) Standards to Asset Owners, which becomes effective on January 1, 2015. The Guidance Statement addresses the differences between the asset owner and … Read More
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s (“SEC”) Office of Investor Education and Advocacy recently released Investor Alert: Investment Newsletters Used as Tool for Fraud to assist investors in avoiding cleverly disguised schemes in investment newsletters. Promoting stocks without disclosing compensations … Read More
In the investment advisory world, a positive performance report of an investment account means everything. Unfortunately, in the case of Vineet Kalucha, the Chief Investment Officer (“CIO”) of the New York-based hedge fund advisory firm Aphelion Fund Management, the altering … Read More
