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Louisiana Proposes Recordkeeping Requirements for Broker-Dealers and Investment Advisers

By Jim Hamilton

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Broker-dealers and investment advisers would be required to make, maintain and preserve books and records that comply with SEC recordkeeping requirements under new rules proposed by the Louisiana Securities Commission. Dealers would comply with SEC Rules 17a-3, 17a-4 and 15c-211; investment advisers would comply with Rule 204-2 of the Investment Advisers Act of 1940. Investment advisers whose principal place of business is located in another state would be exempt from Louisiana recordkeeping requirements if the investment advisers are licensed or registered in the other state and comply with that state?s books and records requirements.

Broker-dealers and investment advisers who cease doing business would, for the remainder of the specified period, preserve the books and records they?re required to maintain and notify the Louisiana Securities Commissioner of the location of those books and records. Note that a broker-dealer?s filing Form BD-W, Uniform Request for Withdrawal from Broker-Dealer Registration, or an investment adviser?s filing Form ADV, Notice of Withdrawal from Registration as Investment Adviser, would satisfy the notice requirement.

Full post as published by Jim Hamilton's World of Securities Regulation on February 24, 2011 (boomark / email).