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Successful IAA Compliance Conference Sees Spirited Discussions, Record Attendance

More than 600 investment advisory industry professionals convened at the 2024 IAA Investment Adviser Compliance Conference. Across two days, attendees got up to speed on critical industry topics and collaborated with their peers from across the country.

March 14, 2024

Keywords: Compliance Conference, Gary Gensler, Karen Barr, SEC Examinations

Categories & Topics: Compliance, Compliance Programs, Enforcement, Examinations, FinTech & Digital, Member Benefits, Membership

SEC’s Gary Gensler and IAA’s Karen Barr Debate SEC Agenda for Advisers

In a conversation that touched on most of the top-of-mind regulatory issues facing advisers Karen Barr pressed Gary Gensler to recognize the important role advisers play in the lives of their clients and the unintended consequences potentially flowing from the SEC’s departure from its longstanding principles-based approach to adviser regulation.

October 19, 2022

Keywords: Cybersecurity, ESG, Fiduciary, Gary Gensler, Karen Barr, Policy & Leadership Forum, Reg BI, SEC

Categories & Topics: Compliance, Fiduciary, Industry Trends, Industry-Level

AMAC: Tailor Regs for Smaller Advisers, Maintain Technology-Neutral Approach

The SEC's Asset Management Advisory Committee (AMAC) is recommending that the SEC address the IAA's calls for relief for smaller investment advisors through tailored regulation and assessment of the cumulative impact of regulation on small firms.

November 04, 2021

Keywords: AMAC, E-Delivery, Gail Bernstein, Gary Gensler, Hester Peirce, Industry Snapshot, Karen Barr

Categories & Topics: Compliance, FinTech & Digital, Industry Trends, Industry-Level

IAA Presents List of Critical Adviser Issues, Regulatory Challenges To New SEC Chair as He Formulates His Regulatory Agenda

The issues include sustainable investing, proxy voting, modernization of the Custody and Pay-to-Play Rules, e-delivery, investor testing of Form CRS, appropriate regulation of smaller advisers, and effective coordination with other regulators.

May 19, 2021

Keywords: Custody, Diversity & Inclusion, E-Delivery, Form CRS, Gary Gensler, Karen Barr, Pay-to-Play, Proxy, Reg BI, Sustainable Investing

Categories & Topics: Business Ops/HR, Compliance, Diversity & Inclusion, Fiduciary, Proxy Voting

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