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Carl Ayers

Carl Ayers Carl Ayers, Publisher | 202-908-6194 | cayers@regcompliancewatch.com Carl has been the publisher of Regulatory Compliance Watch since 2008. He has won several national journalism awards, including for investigative reporting. In 2018, Ayers won two awards - a second place award for Best Spot News for a story reporting Form ADV developments ahead of the SEC (IA Watch, July 6, 2017), and a third place award for Best Investigative Reporting for a series on an adviser that initially fought SEC charges (IA Watch, July 27, 2017). He has worked at newspapers, in television news and in healthcare journalism. Carl hails from New Jersey, earned his master's degree from Northwestern University and enjoys playing guitar, working out and pursuing golf.
The Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations (“OCIE”) is issuing this risk alert to provide investment advisers (“advisers”), investors and other market participants with information ...
OCIE’s second risk alert of the year has hit the street and it includes a litany of actions to avoid if you wish to skip ...
Those 13 lucky advisers that recently settled SEC enforcement actions for failing to file required Form PFs haven’t yet shaken the agency (PF Watch, June ...
The same week that the Supreme Court dealt a blow to the SEC’s ALJ system, lawyers filed a challenge over whether the agency has the ...
The SEC’s revised approach to liquidity risk management gives advisers extra time to describe their programs, which will now only need to be a narrative ...
Among numerous proposed revisions to the SEC’s whistleblower rules – many of them technical tweaks – is one that clarifies that the agency wouldn’t offer ...
Ten years after the Commission first proposed a rule that would eliminate decades worth of exemptive orders for ETFs, it’s back with a new proposal ...
This spring’s release by the SEC of three fiduciary duty-related proposals (IA Watch, April 18, 2018) “encouraged” the agency’s investor advocate because the Commission was ...
In February, Susan Schroeder, EVP of enforcement at FINRA, outlined a series of broad principles that guide her division to identify and crack down on ...
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