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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.
No regulatory issue blazes hotter for private equity fund advisers than fees and expenses (IA Watch, Oct. 7, 2015). Now a group of institutional investors ...
Regulators have stated diligent CCOs need not worry about being named in an enforcement case. Here are three recent FINRA cases involving CCOs that target ...
That recent SEC settlement with Blackstone over uneven legal fees features two parties (IA Watch, Oct. 7, 2015). The other was an unidentified law firm. ...
A peer has contributed this example of a policy and procedure, as well as a segment of the firm's compliance manual, that deals with the ...
This Excel file provides a data sheet illustrating the elements per client that SEC examiners often request. It's been described as a best practice for exams ...
The Department of Justice announced today that it is dismissing insider trading charges against seven defendants, some who had pled guilty – all as a ...
Several “first-of-their-kind” cases. Whistleblower payments totaling $38 million. Victories in all six federal trials launched. More than 800 enforcement actions taken and assessed penalties topping ...
The Commodity Exchange Act forbids firms from commingling segregated customer funds with their own. It also limits customer funds that can be placed in a ...
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