
The SEC adopted changes to Form PF impacting large hedge fund advisers and all PE advisers.
The SEC has adopted a final rule amending Form PF, the regulatory filing requirement mandating private fund advisers report regulatory AUM to the Financial Stability Oversight Council

Incident Reporting on the SEC’s Radar as Regulator Seeks to Mandate a Federal Breach Notification Standard
A steady increase in the threat data breaches pose to individual investors has spurred the SEC to revisit the issue of safeguarding customer information.

Celebrating International Women’s Day: Confluence Embraces Equity
The notion of diversity has evolved and become significant for anyone who has been underrepresented, and women are no different. To me, embracing equity means being aware of and accountable for the reality of gender bias and avoiding the tendency to think in that vein of gender stereotypes.

Composites: The next competitive advantage
Thriving in a shifting landscape means managers must create meaningful composites to ensure fair presentation, consistency, & comparability of performance

Confluence’s top 5 most popular insights of 2022
As we leave 2022 behind and 2023 begins, make sure you didn’t miss a thing last year with this recap of our top insights.

Why Integrating ESG Data and Analytics Into Your Risk and Performance Ecosystem is Critical to Staying Competitive
Sustainable finance disclosure regulations bring focus on ESG data & analytics, placing additional pressure on firms to produce accurate reports at scale.

Liquidity Risk Spotlight: Increased regulatory scrutiny is our biggest threat
Liquidity Risk Spotlight: Inflation & interest rate spikes can cause serious market dislocations & liquidity crunches & regulators worldwide have noticed.

ESG: As COP27 highlights climate urgency, notions of “sustainability” fracture
COP27 can be seen as a microcosm of the challenges and debates that have plagued the concepts of ESG and sustainability since those terms became commonp…

ESG Strategy: Think Regulation, Data, and Budget
Investment managers considering offering ESG strategies need to establish an effective ESG framework and implement a tailored solution with regulation…

Navigating the SEC Marketing Rule: Keyways to Compliance
The new SEC Marketing Rule is accompanied by a detailed, 430-page release & requires advisers to adopt the entire rule all at once by November 4, 2022.

ESG Update for Investment Firms: The Data Problem and E.U. Response
Realistically, E.U. regulatory efforts addressing ESG data (or indeed such efforts anywhere else) face a substantial road ahead before they become effective.

Charting a Path to SFDR Deadlines: Optimizing ESG and EET data collection, quality and reliability
SFDR is progressing towards the 1/1/23 deadline & the industry is in the process of managing & solving a variety of challenges. Here, we provide a brief…