Complicated fees structures, compliance consultants, alternative data

As fee structures grow more complicated, so must your oversight, note our colleagues at sister publication Regulatory Compliance Watch. Controls at many firms “are not keeping up with the complexity of fees that are being charged to clients,” said Marshall Gandy, co-national director of OCIE’s IA/IC exam program and associate director of the SEC’s Fort Worth Regional Office.

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Elsewhere we are hearing industry sources asking questions about alternative data. In an era in which the treatment of data is under scrutiny, will the regulator start to take a greater interest in the unusual data sets (think parking lot vacancies, number of items in shoppers carts, etc)?

Email prepared by Toby Mitchenall