The COVID-19 pandemic poses the biggest logistical challenge for alternative fund managers since 9/11. The economy is in turmoil, market volatility is approaching record highs, and the office is off-limits as employees work from home to prevent the spread of...
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...
