The Preferred Return Podcast | Spin-outs and New Fund Sponsors
AdvisorEsq Podcast Series - Episode 8 - Executive Insights: Succeeding as a COO at an RIA Firm
SEC’s New Cyber Rules for Publicly Traded Companies — The Consumer Finance Podcast
A 2024 Economic Outlook - Troutman Pepper Podcast
PODCAST: Williams Mullen's Benefits Companion - New Federal Rule Aims to Hold Investment Advisors to a Higher Standard
PLI's inSecurities Podcast - The Dangers of Regulation by Enforcement
Cornerstone Research Experts in Focus: Jules van Binsbergen
Podcast Episode 189: Adding Context to Compliance and Color To Your Legal Practice
Top-Tier Data Centers in Underserved Markets - TAG Infrastructure Talks Podcast
ESG and SEC Enforcement in 2022
TAKE A CHANCE ON ME! PART II - Embracing the Magic of Private Placement Life Insurance and Private Placement Variable Annuities
Three Timely Benefits Items Everyone Should Know
Cutting Costs With Employee Benefit Plans (Part 4 of 5) – Retirement Plan Costs
Investment Management and Private Funds Roundtable: TALF 2020 and PPP Update
Videocast: Asset management regulation in 2020 videocast series – The annuity regulatory landscape
Videocast: Asset management regulation in 2020 videocast series – Advisers Act regulatory agenda
Videocast: Asset management regulation in 2020 videocast series – Fiduciary investment advice: The patchwork emerges
Videocast: Asset management regulation in 2020 videocast series – SEC enforcement
Videocast: Asset management regulation in 2020 videocast series – Regulators step up pressure to implement LIBOR transition plans
Podcast: Questions & Concerns About Documentation: A Conversation with Colin Adams, M-III Partners
On April 15, 2024, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) censured and imposed a $60,000 civil penalty on Wayzata Investment Partners LLC (Wayzata) for violating SEC Rule 206(4)-5 (the Pay-to-Play Rule). Under the...more
The Department of Labor (the DOL) expanded its interpretation of fiduciary advice in its guidance issued in connection with Prohibited Transaction Exemption (PTE) 2020-02. As a result, many more broker-dealers and registered...more
On November 4, 2022, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) began enforcing its updated advertising requirements for federally registered advisers. Those rules, described in greater detail here, represented a...more
To date, 27 states have adopted rules that follow the Suitability in Annuity Transactions Model Regulation issued by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC). Recent additions reflected in the following...more
The Attorneys General for both Indiana and Louisiana have issued opinions that environmental, social, and governance (ESG) criteria violate the fiduciary duty owed to corporate investors absent full disclosure of the use of...more
PROPOSAL FORECASTS GREATER REGULATION OF ALTERNATIVE ASSETS - On July 12, 2022, the North American Securities Administrators Association, Inc. (“NASAA”), an organization representing state securities regulators, released a...more
Joining the growing number of states who are implementing the National Association of Insurance Commissioners’ (NAIC) model regulation concerning suitability in annuity transactions, New Mexico has issued its best interest...more
Highlighted below are several recent opinions from the Delaware Court of Chancery relating to special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs) that provide helpful guidance to sponsors, investors and practitioners. These cases...more
Texas, Virginia and Montana are the latest states to enact legislation or rules setting forth a best interest standard for annuity producers in recommending annuities to their customers. Each state has designed its rule to...more
Effective February 1, 2021, amendments to the New York Investment Advisory Act (the “Amendments”) require supervised persons representing certain New York-registered investment advisers, and, to a lesser degree, investment...more
On April 14, 2020, the 10th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals adopted the “face-of-the-award” rule for dealing with arbitrator errors in damage calculations under Section 11(a) of the FAA, affirming the district court’s refusal...more
On September 6, 2019, the Securities Division of South Carolina’s Office of the Attorney General issued an order providing an exemption from the state investment adviser registration requirements for advisers that provide...more
The Corporations, Securities, & Commercial Licensing Bureau of the Michigan Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs ("the Bureau") has issued new Securities Rules interpreting and enforcing the Michigan Uniform...more
The North American Securities Administrators Association (NASAA) this week approved an information security model rule package aimed at improving the cybersecurity posture of the 17,543 state-registered advisers....more
The Situation: The Pennsylvania Legislature passed Act 5 in 2017, which, among other things, created the Pennsylvania Public Pension Management and Asset Investment Review Commission ("Commission"). The Commission was...more
With heightened attention to investment and depository rules as well as increased enforcement of federal and state pay-to-play rules, registered investment advisers (RIAs) and broker-dealers should address the unique legal...more
On October 15, the New Jersey Bureau of Securities (Bureau) requested public comments on the concept of amending the New Jersey Blue Sky regulations “to require that broker-dealers, agents, investment advisers, and adviser...more
The schedule for review of the investment strategies of the Public Employees' Retirement System and School Employees' Retirement System just became accelerated. At its hearing on July 30, 2018, Pennsylvania's...more
This development represents just one aspect of the ongoing debate over active versus passive asset management. Earlier this month, Pennsylvania's largest public pension fund, the Public School Employees' Retirement System...more
On February 7, the Massachusetts Securities Division asked for public comment on a fee table requirement for Massachusetts-registered investment advisers....more
Although the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) staff is currently drafting proposed rules relating to the standard of conduct for broker-dealers and investment advisers, several states have decided not to wait for...more
State financial regulators in Colorado and Vermont recently adopted cybersecurity rules that apply to broker-dealers and investment advisers regulated by those states as well as certain other “securities professionals” in...more
The Fed wrapped up its Open Market Committee meeting yesterday without any change in interest rates but with an expression of confidence in the economy, despite Q1’s sub-1 percent growth figure (which it dubbed “transitory”)....more
In April 2017, the New York Department of Financial Services (the “DFS”) released guidance on interpreting 23 NYCRR Part 500, its recently promulgated regulation that requires banks, insurance companies and other financial...more
Adviser to European Court of Justice Says US-EU Safe Harbor Should Be Declared Invalid - An advisory opinion issued by the advocate general to the European Court of Justice states that the U.S.-EU Safe Harbor should be...more