Regulation

Washington’s front-loaded effort to CRUSH fraud adds more pressure in an already grinding environment.

Bay State regulators widen the blast radius.

Paul Atkins speaks as if he’s said his last words on private credit. Private funds must hope that’s true.

SEC Chairman Paul Atkins wants private funds to show they can be good stewards without regulators hassling them. Whatever happens next, he owns it.

David Woodcock’s appointment may put a ceiling on the SEC’s enforcement ambitions, but it won’t lower the regulatory floor for private funds.

Proposal would offer safe harbor to pension fiduciaries who ‘objectively, thoroughly and analytically’ weigh one or more of six factors against clients’ needs, risk appetites.

Private fund managers are gatekeepers, not bystanders, LexisNexis Risk Solutions’ Vincent Gaudel says.

EisnerAmper accepts censure but ducks penalties as SEC heralds the firm’s remedial efforts to clean up after the Infinity Q scandal.

Private funds won’t have Meg Ryan to kick them around anymore, but the kickings will continue until morale improves.

‘These are not the type of fund-like investments where the expectations of the acquiring fund’s shareholders would be frustrated,’ the SEC says in new regulatory guidance.