Course Description: Practice and preparation are two ways to help you improve your IACCP test results. This IACCP examination study session will help accomplish both for you. The instructor-led session will test your knowledge and allow you to become familiar with the types of questions you will encounter when taking the actual exam. Refresh your memory and increase your knowledge and application of securities regulations and best practice. We recommend participating in this training exercise with other candidates to practice…

Trade errors are inevitable. What distinguishes compliant firms is that they detect and identify them quickly, resolve them fairly and expeditiously, and minimize the likelihood of errors in the first place.

Course Description: Compliance professionals must be ever mindful of the ongoing mandates embodied in Rule 206(4)-7 under the Investment Advisers Act and Rule 38a-1 under the Investment Company Act to maintain, review, test and modify written compliance policies and procedures that are reasonably designed to detect violations and weaknesses in internal controls and compliance systems. Commonly referred to as the “Compliance Programs Rules,” these rules specifically require that advisers and funds implement and maintain policies and procedures designed to detect,…

Come to Orlando, home of the most magical place on earth, for compliance education and peer interaction. Join NRS at our Spring 2019 Compliance Conference where industry experts will address how investment adviser and broker-dealer firms can successfully navigate the disruptive currents of regulatory change and adapt procedures to compliance programs. attendee comments I depend upon my partners in compliance, NRS, to keep me informed + updated on rule changes from myriad regulatory entities. Their Spring and Fall compliance conferences…

While the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 includes most of the rules and regulations an advisory firm needs to abide by to be compliant, other regulations affect advisory firms in significant ways and must be considered.

In the past several years regulatory scrutiny of data protection has expanded from basic issues of privacy, to requirements for dealing with identity theft, to detailed assessments of firm-wide cybersecurity.

Course Description: In June 2016, the SEC issued a rule proposal, Adviser Business Continuity and Transition Plans, which would prohibit an SEC-registered investment adviser from providing investment advice unless the adviser adopts and implements a written business continuity and transition plan and reviews the plan at least annually. While a final rule has yet to be released, many advisers have already adopted changes to their programs to address many of the rule elements. The SEC continues to show interest in…

Course Description: Compliance professionals must be ever mindful of the ongoing mandates embodied in Rule 206(4)-7 under the Investment Advisers Act and Rule 38a-1 under the Investment Company Act to maintain, review, test and modify written compliance policies and procedures that are reasonably designed to detect violations and weaknesses in internal controls and compliance systems. Commonly referred to as the “Compliance Programs Rules,” these rules specifically require that advisers and funds implement and maintain policies and procedures designed to detect,…

Course Description: Practice and preparation are two ways to help you improve your IACCP test results. This IACCP examination study session will help accomplish both for you. The instructor-led session will test your knowledge and allow you to become familiar with the types of questions you will encounter when taking the actual exam. Refresh your memory and increase your knowledge and application of securities regulations and best practice. We recommend participating in this training exercise with other candidates to practice…

Course Description: The North American Securities Administrator Association (NASAA) Coordinated Exams Program is a biennial initiative conducted to identify common investment adviser deficiencies. NASAA issues a comprehensive report that documents examination outcomes from a sample of state level investment advisers and provides suggested best practices to avoid regulatory violations. The last report (2017) recorded 1,227 examinations and found 5,681 deficiencies in 13 general categories. The top five areas of deficiencies for state-registered investment advisers were books and records, registration, contracts,…