On November 15, 2017, the SEC’s Division of Enforcement released its annual report for Fiscal Year 2017 (“FY 2017”).
Unregistered investment adviser and its principals charged with engaging a fund in conflicted transactions without providing disclosure to the investors.
The SEC released three no-action letters that will provide 30 months of relief under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 for US broker-dealers under the second Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (“MiFID II”).
Effective Oct. 1, advisers will be required to comply with the revised Books and Records Rule. Under the new rule, advisers must maintain additional records supporting the calculation and distribution of performance information.
The SEC charged an investment adviser and its principal with misleading clients and prospective clients about the performance track record of an investment strategy they offered.
The SEC charged a registered real estate private equity firm with executing a transaction between two funds (“Fund I” and “Fund II”) it advised on different terms than what was disclosed to the Fund I investor advisory committee (“Fund I IAC”).