William Byrnes' Tax, Wealth, and Risk Intelligence

As anticipated, the SEC will delay implementation of the RIA transition. On June 22, the SEC approved rules that will transition thousands of advisors from SEC to state regulation, but the new rules won’t be effective until June 28, 2012, almost a year later than initially expected.

Under the regulatory structure in place before the enactment of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, investment advisors with $25 million or more in assets under management (AUM) were regulated by the SEC, and those with less than $25 million in AUM were regulated by the states. Dodd-Frank changed the registration threshold so that advisors with between $25 and $100 million in AUM—so-called “midsize advisors”—will be required to withdraw their registration from the SEC and register with state regulators.

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For previous coverage of the planned switch and in Advisor’s Journal, see Disarray at the SEC is Complicating the “Switch” (CC 11-83), Hedge Funds Must Now Register with the SEC under the New Wall Street Reform Act (CC 10-45) & Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (CC 10-35).