Doug Cornelius on compliance for private equity real estate
Private equity transactions are not outside the scope of enforcement by the Securities and Exchange Commission. The SEC filed a case against a former principal of an investment adviser that manages private equity funds. The charge is that he “usurped …[a] lucrative investment opportunity in a private company.” At this point, the SEC has only … Read more »
The Securities and Exchange Commission brought charges of securities fraud for concealing a significant error in the computer code of the quantitative investment model. I found this case to be interesting because it was not flawed human decisions, but flawed computer decisions. However, we still live in the age where computers do what we tell … Read more »