Sponsors and managers of private funds must attend to various routine regulatory and compliance tasks, which can include ongoing reporting obligations under the Investment Advisers Act.
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As 2020 finally comes to a close, compliance officers face the unenviable job of performing their compliance program’s annual review under Advisers Act Rule 206(4)-7). An essential element of that review is updating the firm’s compliance policies and procedures to reflect relevant changes to regulations and regulatory guidance. Here’s a cheat sheet for Chief Compliance Officers summarizing the SEC’s big-ticket items from 2020.
Despite the massive disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the SEC didn’t skip a beat, moving ahead with examinations, enforcement actions, and regulatory initiatives in 2020. The SEC’s Division of Examinations (the Division, formerly known as Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations, or OCIE), shifted to remote examinations and focused on threats posed by COVID-19, such as fraud, insider trading, and inadequate disclosure. Although some deadlines and requirements were exte