GRC Solutions for Mutual Funds, ETFs, and Other Investment Companies
Our Investment Company Practice supports registered investment companies, as well as their advisers and sub-advisers, board of directors, and service providers to help them build, enhance and add controls to their compliance programs to meet Investment Company Act of 1940 requirements and SEC and industry standards.
We offer objective, innovative, and effective compliance reviews and solutions to prepare registered investment companies, as well as their boards, sponsors, advisers, sub-advisers, and service providers, for the rigors of SEC examinations. We provide solutions to assist firms with managing and mitigating related operational, regulatory, and reputational risks.
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Who we work with
We provide solutions for the following types of firms.
Business Development Companies (BDCs)
We provide objective, innovative, and effective compliance reviews and solutions to assist business development companies, as well as their boards, sponsors, and service providers — with preparing for the rigors of an SEC examination.
Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs)
We provide objective, innovative, and effective compliance reviews and solutions to assist exchange-traded funds with preparing for the rigors of an SEC examination.
Registered Investment Companies
We offer diverse compliance review and compliance services, all scalable to individual client needs.
Variable Insurance Products
We help insurance companies and distributors understand and manage these complex compliance requirements and develop and implement the comprehensive, effective risk-based protocols necessary to meet regulators’ expectations.
Investment company compliance solutions
Our team includes former regulators along with former along with former chief compliance officers and senior compliance managers from prominent financial institutions. Our team helps you to navigate the evolving regulatory landscape while considering the complexity of your firm’s unique compliance requirements.
Compliance solutions can include:
- Adviser and fund policy and procedure customization and development
- Mock SEC reviews
- Rule 38a-1 compliance program reviews
- Enhanced annual adviser compliance program reviews that is specific to Company Act requirements for advisers/sub-advisers
- Customized focus reviews (e.g. liquidity risk management program, intermediary fees, cross trades, cybersecurity, valuation)
- Compliance and internal audit testing support
- Sub-adviser due diligence reviews
- SEC inspection support
- Mutual fund distributor reviews and financial intermediary oversight reviews (e.g. FINRA rule 3110, 3120)
- Independent Consulting Mandate
By the numbers
Our market share
of the top 100 mutual funds (as noted in the Mutual Fund Directory March 2020 ranking data)
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