Ellen Harvin joined Fairview in 2005. Today, her primary focus is leading Fairview Compliance Administration, which provides compliance services to more than 160 advisers and other financial firms, exceeding $370 billion in collective assets. In this capacity, she oversees the delivery of premium service to a wide range of clients including launching and maintaining compliance programs, conducting compliance training, monitoring, and testing policies and procedures, and coordinating client responses to SEC regulatory exams.
Ellen has worked in financial services since 2004. Prior to that, she worked as a vice president in account management at a full-service marketing and advertising firm, where she developed her expertise in account management that laid the foundation to build the client service model that Fairview still uses today.
On April 23, 2024, the White House announced that the Department of Labor (“DOL”) has finalized its Retirement Security Rule, also known as the “Fiduciary Rule.” The new rule extends the current definition of “investment advice fiduciary” under ERISA to include advisers when they “give investment advice for a fee to retirement plan participants, individual retirement account owners and others.” The rule and related exemptions will be effective on September 23, 2024, with a phase-in period for many of the exemptions and reporting requirements of one year until September of 2025.
Read MoreOn April 17th, 2024, the Division of Examinations (“EXAMS”) published a risk alert to inform investment advisers, investors, and other market participants about the examiner’s observations on the Marketing Rule. This risk alert highlights the Division’s focus on advisers’ compliance with the marketing rule and their completion of the marketing rule items contained in Form ADV as well as Advisers Act Rule 206(4)-7 (the “Compliance Rule”), Advisers Act Rule 204-2 (the “Books and Records Rule), and the Marketing Rule’s “General Prohibitions”.
Read MoreFINRA announced that the 2024 FINRA Entitlement Certification period begins today and must be completed on or before June 17, 2024.
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