The SEC’s Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations this week provided investment advisers with a summary of frequent compliance issues related to advisory fees and expenses that the staff is seeing in their examinations of registered investment advisers.
The Risk Alert, published April 12, 2018, is the latest in a series of similar alerts published by OCIE to educate advisers and other market participants regarding consistent risk themes it identifies in its examination program and to promote compliance. OCIE said that its objective in publishing this Risk Alert is to “encourage advisers to assess their advisory fee and expense practices and related disclosures to ensure that they are complying with the [Investment] Advisers Act, the relevant rules, and their fiduciary duty, and review the adequacy and effectiveness of their compliance programs.” The Risk Alert summarizes deficiencies identified in more than 1,500 examinations completed during the past two years.
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