Many wealthy families create investment management entities, family offices, and private trust companies to manage their investments and provide fiduciary and other services. Most provide some form of investment advice to individual family members, trusts for their benefit, or other family entities, and without an exemption, these family offices would be “investment advisers” for purposes of the Investment Advisers Act of 1940.
To Register or Not? SEC Investment Adviser Guidance for "Family Offices"
To Register or Not? SEC Investment Adviser Guidance for "Family Offices"
Volume 26 No. 05
By
Ryan M. Harding is a partner and Elise J. McGee an associate in the Chicago office of McDermott Will & Emery LLP.
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