Investment Advisers Content

On September 9, 2024, the SEC announced that it settled charges against nine registered investment advisers for violations of Advisers Act Rule 206(4)-1. All nine firms have agreed to pay a combined $1,240,000 in civil penalties, ranging from $60,000 to $325,000.

On August 14, 2024, the US District Court for the Western District of Missouri ordered that a set of challenged Missouri Securities Division rules, which required specified financial professionals to obtain a client's written consent on state-scripted documents before providing advice...

On July 30, 2024, ICI submitted the attached comment letter to the Securities and Exchange Commission on the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority's proposed FINRA Rule 6500 series that would implement FINRA's Securities Lending and Transparency Engine.

The Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs released the Spring 2024 Unified Agenda of Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions on July 8, 2024. The agenda includes regulatory actions that the Securities and Exchange Commission and Commodity Futures Trading Commission expect to take...

On June 26th, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals vacated those 2022 SEC proxy advice amendments that rescinded the 2020 amendments—called the "notice-and-awareness" conditions.

The SEC's Investor Advisory Committee held a meeting on June 6, 2024, which featured a discussion on the draft recommendations of its Disclosure Subcommittee regarding the protection of self-directed investors when trading complex products and utilizing complex strategies. The meeting...

On June 5th, 2024, a three-judge panel of the United States Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals issued a unanimous decision to vacate the SEC's Private Fund Adviser Rule in its entirety on the grounds that the Commission lacked statutory authority to adopt the rule.

The Department of the Treasury published in the Federal Register a request for information on uses, opportunities, and risks of artificial intelligence (AI) in the financial services sector. The RFI uses a broad definition AI, which Treasury views as encompassing "a wide range of...

On May 16, 2024, the SEC unanimously adopted amendments to Rule 248.30 in Regulation S-P (the "amendments"). Since its adoption in 2000, Regulation S-P has required the safeguarding of customer records and information and the disposal of consumer report information.

As part of the SEC's Conference on Emerging Trends in Asset Management, Chair Gensler delivered a keynote address titled, "Jack Bogle, Haystacks, and Putting the Interest of the Clients First." His remarks covered a number of subject areas, including the growth of investment products...