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Monday, February 1, 2021 A December 16, 2020 risk alert issued by the SEC’s Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations (OCIE) cautions investment advisers and broker-dealers to review and, as necessary, enhance their compliance programs with respect to “Large Trader” obligations pursuant to Rule 13h-1 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Compliance with Rule 13h-1 enables the SEC to identify and obtain information on market participants that conduct a substantial am...

Thursday, January 14, 2021 On December 16, 2020, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s (“SEC”) Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations (“OCIE,” since reorganized as a separate division of the SEC, i.e., the Division of Examinations [“DivEx”]) issued a Risk Alert entitled “Observations from Examinations of Broker-Dealers and Investment Advisers: Large Trader Obligations.” My December 8, 2020, blog post, “Meeting Specified Standards: the SEC’s OC...

On December 22, the SEC adopted amendments to modernize and combine the existing advertising and cash solicitation rules for advisers registered or required to be registered with the SEC. Among many other things, the amendments: Streamline the advertising and cash solicitation requirements under the newly named “Investment Adviser Marketing Rule” (numerous long-standing no-action letters will be withdrawn); Replace the four per se prohibitions of the advertising rule with seven general proh...