Despite consistent warnings from the Securities and Exchange Commission since 2012, alternative investment advisors continue to misallocate expenses in violation of their fund agreements and the Advisors Act of 1940. Last year the commission publicly settled four...
The SEC issued a Risk Alert identifying expense misallocation as one of the most widespread compliance problems facing private equity and hedge fund managers. The SEC’s objective in issuing the Risk Alert was “to encourage advisors to assess their [practices] to...
The Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) continues to aggressively pursue expense allocation charges against private equity and hedge fund managers. The agency has publicly settled three misallocation enforcement actions in the past few months netting over $2...
Hedge fund Tillage Commodities filed a lawsuit last September alleging its fund administrator ignored its own security protocols when it fell for a spear phishing attack and inadvertently wired millions of dollars out of Tillage’s accounts. The fund admin has...
Defying the polls, odds, and establishment, Donald Trump will be the next President of the United States. Wall Street is likely to experience volatility in short term as Mr. Trump represents a drastic break with the status quo and injects uncertainty into the markets....
