I’m watching the horror while on vacation instead of my office in Boston. My heart goes out to all of the spectators and families who were affected by the blast. Patriot’s Day in Boston is usually a great day, starting with the Revolutionary War reenactments in the morning, a Red Sox home game, and the … Read more »
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Eye of Sauron for Compliance
What better way to ensure compliance than to have an eye watching you while you work? What better eye than the ultimate evil eye of Sauron? It’s a product of the day at ThinkGeek. But since the day is April 1, it’s not real. (At least not yet.) Your workers can breathe a sigh of … Read more »
Not Quite Spring
Yet another heavy snowfall in Greater Boston. I spent my time this morning shoveling, instead of writing a new blog post. Read more »
TSA Compliance for Knives and Water
At first I thought Transportation Security Administration had gone completely insane. The blue shirts are now going to allow knives on planes as long as the blade is shorter than six centimeters and narrower than 1/2 inch. After looking closer I just think they merely incompetent. Up front I should mention that I have never … Read more »
How Much Did the Stimulus Affect Unemployment? Not Much
While the New York Fed is increasingly tasked with regulating financial institutions, its bread and butter is economic analysis. A recent report debunks the theory that the stimulus spending lowered unemployment. James Orr, vice president in the Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s Research and Statistics Group, and John Sporn, a senior analyst in the … Read more »
Compliance Bricks and Mortar – March 1 Edition
March comes in like a lion and out like a lamb. The same may be true of the SEC when it comes to the 2008 financial crisis and the SEC. This week’s Supreme Court decision in Gabelli v. SEC, means that the SEC has only 5 years after the date of the fraud to bring … Read more »
Investment Adviser Certified Compliance Professional
Just tooting my own horn today. I finally fulfilled the requirement to become an Investment Adviser Certified Compliance Professional®. With the SEC’s registration requirement for private fund managers, I took a closer look at what the SEC requires for compliance professionals. Rule 206(4)-7 imposes no particular requirements on a chief compliance officer. The SEC release … Read more »
How Effective is Your Gate?
Does your compliance program sometime feel like this gate? A tool working alone is not necessarily effective. It may be a great tool, but still not be effective. If it’s easy to get around then it’s not effective. Do you even know if people are going around? Is it even possible to know if they … Read more »
Social Media Access by Employers
There was a kerfuffle in the news about employers demanding access to employees’ social media site. The stories stated the employers asked for the employees’ passwords, in addition to their usernames. In response, at least six states have started the legislative process to prevent employers from demanding that access. As you might expect, the tricky … Read more »
Ethics and the 75 percent
The 75 percent number represents the votes needed by the Baseball Writers’ Association of America for a candidate to granted entry to baseball’s Hall of Fame. There were 569 ballots cast. On Wednesday, the BWAA announced that one of the greatest hitters and one of the greatest hitters in the history of baseball were denied … Read more »