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SEC Rules on the Family OfficeSEC Rules on the Family Office
Family offices must now square the corners of their ownership and investment process with a new regulation. The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (Dodd-Frank) fundamentally changes the rules for family offices that provide investment advice. Prior to the passage of that law, many family offices considered themselves exempt from registration under the Investment Advisers Act
Miles C. Padgett
Family offices must now square the corners of their ownership and investment process with a new regulation. The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (Dodd-Frank) fundamentally changes the rules for family offices that provide investment advice. Prior to the passage of that law, many family offices considered themselves exempt from registration under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 (Advisers Act) due to the exemption for advisers with fewer than 15 clients. In enacting Dodd-Frank, however, Congress revoked that exemption effective July 2011, but created a new exemption for family offices — the single family office exclusion — and directed the Securities and Exchange Commission to establish its scop...
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