The annual Securities and Exchange Commission request for funding from Congress is not generally very interesting. For fiscal year 2025 its seeking $2.6 billion to support over 5,000 full-time equivalents. Some of the stats are interesting. This one caught my eye:
Looking at the private funds area, in the last five years, the number of funds has increased 54 percent to approximately 56,000. The assets managed by private fund managers, now at $26 trillion in gross assets, surpasses the size of the entire U.S. commercial banking sector of approximately $23 trillion.
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Those 5,000 FTE cover a lot of firms:
We oversee approximately 40,000 entities—including more than 13,000 registered funds, more than 15,400 investment advisers, more than 3,400 broker-dealers, 24 national securities exchanges, 103 alternative trading systems, 10 credit rating agencies, 33 self-regulatory organizations, and six active registered clearing agencies, among other external entities. In addition, the SEC oversees the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB), the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board (MSRB), the Securities Investor Protection Corporation (SIPC), and the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB).
As for examinations of registered investment advisers, the SEC reached 2,362 this past year, expect to reach 2,282 this year and hopes to reach 2,324 in the following year. (See page 22) That’s assuming it gets the budget requested.
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