After sitting in limbo for three months, the Securities and Exchange Commission finally published the Investment Adviser Marketing Rule in the Federal Register on March 5, 2021. That makes the effective date May 4, 2021 and the compliance date 18 months after that (October November 4, 2022).
So far I’ve not heard any information on why the extended delay. There were rumors of changes to the rule under the new Chair of the SEC. There were rumors of combing the publication with the rescission of some of the 50 years worth of no-action letters and other guidance. The rumors were apparently not true.
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