The Securities and Exchange Commission’s Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations (“OCIE”) highlighted alternative data, or “alt data,” as a top examination priority. AIMA held a webinar on November 17, 2020, for...more
12/16/2020
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Breach of Contract ,
Compliance ,
Data Mining ,
Due Diligence ,
Employee Training ,
Infringement ,
Investment Advisers Act of 1940 ,
MNPI ,
OCIE ,
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ,
Web Scraping
On November 2, 2020, the SEC’s Division of Enforcement issued its 2020 Annual Report for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2020. While the Enforcement Division filed 405 standalone enforcement actions – the lowest total in...more
11/12/2020
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Compensation ,
Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Custody Rule ,
Disclosure Requirements ,
Fund Transfers ,
Insider Trading ,
Investment Advisers Act of 1940 ,
Misallocation of Funds ,
MNPI ,
Past Performance ,
Private Funds ,
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
SEC Speaks, the annual PLI conference that gives practitioners the chance to hear directly from SEC Staff, was held on October 8 and 9 in a virtual setting. While the conference (like everything else) felt a bit different...more