Exam Initiatives Focused on Registered Investment Companies

The SEC’s Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations has issued a risk alert announcing its intention to conduct a series of examination initiatives focused on issues affecting certain registered investment companies and investment advisers. According to the Risk Alert, examiners have six initiatives: Index funds that track custom-built indexes Smaller ETFs and/or ETFs with little secondary … Read more »

Excelsior!

Stan Lee, the legendary writer and publisher of Marvel comics who helped created countless superheroes, has died. He was 95. On his own and through his work with collaborators Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko, Bill Everett. and others, Mr. Lee created Spider-Man, the X-Men, the Mighty Thor, Black Panther, Iron Man, the Fantastic Four, the Incredible Hulk, … Read more »

Cryptocurrency Problems Roundup

Crypto Currency can be a Commodity A federal judge in Massachusetts agreed with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s view that virtual currencies are commodities under the Commodity Exchange Act and subject to federal regulation. See CFTC v. My Big Coin Pay, Inc., (D. Mass. Sept. 26, 2018). The CFTC sued a virtual currency company and several … Read more »

Go Vote

It’s election day. Make sure you vote today. Only 42% of registered Americans came out to vote in the 2014 midterms. The numbers get even worse when you look at millennials, only about 20% of millennials showed up in the last two midterm elections. Add in the vast number of unregistered voters and you have a lot of government … Read more »

The New Anticorruption Requirements of the New NAFTA.

>The Trump Administration took great pride in tearing up the North American Free Trade Agreement and imposing a new framework for trade between the United States, Mexico, and Canada. Of course it had to be re-branded, with “America First”, as the US-Mexico-Canada Agreement. This refreshed version of NAFTA includes some increased labor protections for workers, … Read more »

Tone at the Top

I will sound like an obnoxious Boston Sports Fan this morning. Boston is back to being a championship city with the Red Sox winning the World Series. As an announcer said, it’s been five years since they won the World Series. Switching sports, it’s only been one season since the New England Patriots won the … Read more »